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Moving Company Recommendations
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08-25-2008, 01:12 PM
I just accepted an offer on my Bay Area house. With luck I'll be there mid October. I live about 10 miles from the Port of Oakland. I'm looking for a door to door moving company. Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks, Garrett
08-25-2008, 03:58 PM
hello,
so your moving to puna???? iam in southern cali, and my husband and i are trying to make the decision of taking a fire job in hilo (the airport firedept) we have three kids, why are you moving to puna? (if you dont mind me asking) do you have any info on the racism that i have heard about?is it a good place to raise kids? safe? iam getting realy good info and realy bad info.... particularly very bad from one man. he specifically told me i would be moving into hell.... (yikes) he said the reality of it is that we would never realy be welcome there. please what are your thoughts??? thankyou jacque ford
jacque ford
08-25-2008, 05:33 PM
Stay away from West Point Relocation at all costs! This is from personal experience...many boxes missing...overcharged...two months to get a vehicle, too many problems to list.
Carrie Rojo "The sun and moon collide. Isn't gravity a funny thing? The universe explodes apart. All the children sing..." Todd Rundgren
Carrie Rojo
"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future..." Galadriel LOTR
08-26-2008, 01:49 AM
Firewife
I saw the answers, on the other topic, you received very good information. I'll defer to the others, as they know better than I... Good luck! But I will answer give you my short answer as to why I picked Puna. Growing up in Chicago, since the first time I visited a warm climate in the winter, I've spent my life dreaming of living in the tropics, I love the tropics. I love the ocean water, snorkeling, swimming, I'm going to take up SCUBA and kayaking. Puna has a certain vibe I relate to. I grew up in the sixties and still have a slight hippie streak in me. I've lived in Chicago, Phoenix, LA, Oakland and I'm so tired of the crowds and the big city... I'm exhausted from it. I'm 55, been working consistantly for 40 years, and now I'm going to retire, from the corporate world, and pursue my many creative interests. I've waited 40 years if I wait any longer there may not be any longer 
08-26-2008, 01:12 PM
well, Garretto, I moved here from Oakland too, and shipped a container and two vehicles out of Oakland ... it was six years ago but experience may still apply.
We didn't find or use door to door moving. We shipped via Matson container and I think we used CSX for the vehicles. Matson came and delivered the container in front of our house, to be filled by us, or people of our choice. I had a friend who was a mover, and he professionally loaded the container. We had packed the boxes (meaning prepared the boxes), but we were glad that a pro mover packed them in, because nothing shifted. Your stuff will go through a lot of motion crossing the Pacific! Matson came and picked up the container when it was full. We were down to the wire! That night I spent in some awful hotel near the airport, as I didn't want to sleep on the bare floor ... although I could have gotten an air mattress. But it was time to go to Hawai'i, as in fact I had to hand carry our signed notarized loan docs that had been issued very belatedly by Countrywide ... and take them straight to our escrow company! I arrived here, rented a car for one day, and the next day picked up my car at the port, which I had shipped a week prior. Then it was almost three weeks before our stuff came. We had taken a furnished rental for the interim. The container came into port and we hired a local mover to go to the port and pick it up, transport it to our new home, and unload. The local movers worked by a set hourly rate. So that's how we did it ... we were actually moving to Waikoloa at that time, so the container came into Kawaihae, but it would have been the same process over here. PS. We had a lot to do to our new house, as the carpet was totally trashed and so was the paint and it was dirty ... so while waiting for the container to come we were extremely busy bees prepping the house and were glad there was no furniture because it would have been stuff we had no space or time to deal with.
08-26-2008, 02:06 PM
We moved from Oakland to Volcano in 2006. We used Pacman Movers and were really happy with the service. They brought in 4 guys to pack the Oakland house. They were efficient and did a great job packing our stuff. What they did in a few hours would have taken us days. A few weeks later the container arrived in Volcano and the three guys unloaded everything, put it where we wanted, took away the packing material and off they went. Everything arrived unharmed.
Robin
09-01-2008, 07:23 PM
I live in CA but last year moved to the island to test the waters. I loved Puna! The people were all super nice and helpful. I moved back to L.A. simply because I am not ready to retire and the work I do requires that I work in CA. But if I can create a new business that might do well in Puna , well that would be awesome. In the meantime, I am keeping my eyes and ears open.
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