A Local Moving Company to Avoid: H&S Movers

This year I spent Halloween packing up my Park Slope apartment and moving it into another Park Slope apartment. For the first time, I hired movers to help with the relocation process. Normally I'd enlist friends to help awkwardly maneuver my heavy couch up three flights of stairs, but I've moved 7 times in the past 6 years, and thus have exhausted all of those favors. I'd also broken my toe a few days earlier, thanks to unreliable depth perception and an especially dense coffee table leg. I needed some outside help.

When it came time to choose a moving company, I immediately looked up a great post that FiPS writer Ninedaves wrote about the highest-rated moving companies in New York City. You guys chimed in and recommended your favorites as well. I read, absorbed and then completely ignored all of your presumably great suggestions. Instead of choosing the highest-rated moving company, I chose the cheapest, and they were AWWW-FUL. I realize in choosing low cost over quality I absolutely fucked myself. I get that. But in the event that you're reading this post while packing your wine glasses into an empty Fresh Direct box, I'm here to tell you what to expect should you choose this particular moving company.

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