I feel compelled to add my two cents, just because I really, really want this company to succeed. When they say it's an "athletic Moving company," they are not joking. The young strapping men they send look like tri-athletes. They do really run - lope, even. They are genuinely nice. Everything you've heard is true on the other websites. I just didn't find anything interesting on yelp about them. But I thought I would give them a chance, as they promised me that if I am not satisfied with their job, they would do a full refund. Even when we ran into a little snag (my apartment company, in its infinite wisdom, decided to paint the DOORFRAMES to my apartment, rendering the AVL boys unable to get my sofa in without ruining it with black paint), they handled it with aplomb. One of the movers kept apologizing, even though the problem had nothing to do with him. It all turned out fine - we just left the sofa in the hallway and I moved it in later after the paint was dry. Hiring AVL Moving Systems is like hiring your friends to help you move - if you had really nice, fast, superhumanly strong friends who didn't bitch about carrying boxes up stairs. Their prices are also very reasonable. My move took 3 hours to the minute (even with the sofa/doorframe snafu), and after tip and everything included, it was $300. You shouldn't really waste your time checking out other companies. Just call AVL.
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