FlateRate Elite

the service was good and reliable. but you have to be on top of them with furniture assembly. they were sloppy with some of my pieces

with high end furniture, i would use a real good furniture company, i can recommend two if you like, and also make sure you take an insurance policy, very important. ask about the insurance policy and what is covered. most companies will only insure $0.30 a pound (if you have a table worth $5k and it only weighs 100# you are only covered $50, take out a policy on individual pieces. i would not be to concerned about the flat screens (they have that down pact, more concerned about tables, dressers very easy to ding up, scratch, or ruin)

Best move I ever had was FlatRate - on-time, completely professional, very fast.

what about when it comes to moving artwork? Do most moving companies have this down pact as well?

Used Moving Man a number of years ago, both for my move, and for my mother's. They were very good, only one thing got slightly damaged, and they had an antiques repairer come and fix it.

But I will say that we had a number of pieces crated for the move, to avoid damage (we had done that before for long distance moves), and we were very careful watching to see that things were padded well, etc.etc.

Also, we moved smaller fragile pieces ourselves, everything else we had the movers pack. That way if anything in a carton broke, they could not claim it was due to our inexperienced packing.

For fine art, use a fine art moving service. Flat Rate Elite is quite good. As others say, very reliable. Always negotiate price with Flat Rate--never accept first quote. Just asking if they can do better gets you minimum 10% off. If Oscar is still one of the Elite crews, I highly recommend him. His crew was serious, focused, didn't load 1 second. Used him for 3 moves. Some were complicated. Great job.