Choosing A Calgary Moving Company

These days the Calgary economy is booming. This reality has created and opportunity for moving companies to burgeon all over the Calgary Metropolitan area. While most movers might have honest intentions to deliver the best services possible to the customers, others can sometimes be unscrupulous and only in business for a quick fast buck. In order to find and choose the best Calgary moving company it's important to follow a few simple steps.

Check Their Calgary BBB record
Check How Long in Business in Calgary
Ask for Calgary refferals
Investigate Insurance clauses
View the equipement or office

Check Their Calgary BBB record

While all Calgary moving companies may not be members of the BBB, a lot of them are, just call the local BBB office or do an online search and find out if they have any outsanding disputes that are not resolved. If they are not members it's not a problem either because their reputation will be reflected either way, however good or bad it may be. While they may have other moving company branches in other Alberta and Canadian cities, make sure to verify their local Calgary reputation as other locations might be run and managed by totally different staff and movers.

Check How Long in Business in Calgary

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Calgary Moving Rates

Calgary Moving Rates

Moving can be billed in three ways, by the hour, flat rate or by the load.

Billing by the hour is recommended for Calgary to Calgary moves, especially in the downtown area, the rates for 2 men and the truck is $(Please call or email us for details) per hour. An average one bedroom apartment takes between 4-6 hours. If you require additional packing services before the move, the rate is $(Please call us or email us for details) per hour for 2 professional packers. It takes about 2-3 hours to pack an average one bedroom apartment. While it may seem like the packing service is adding to the cost of the move, in many instances it will save you money because move execution actually goes faster when prepared in advanced by seasoned professional movers.

Flat rate billing can be a tricky proposition because both the moving company and the client have to come to a mutual agreement. Invariably, someone will get the shorter end of the stick at the end of the move, could be the company working too long and getting a ridiculously low hourly rate or could be the customer paying an outrageous hourly rate because the job got completed too quickly. Flat rate billing is only recommended for people or businesses with extensive experience in the moving industry in general.

Billing by the load is fine for long distance services, anything leaving Calgary to Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa or Edmonton is billed this way. The load is billed on the weight of the shipment plus scale fees and various small extra moving fees, please contact us for further details. Cost per pound varies between 50 cents to a dollar, this rate can change according to the timing, nature of shipment, origin and destination addresses and if you order pack and move or just the Calgary move service.

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