Santa Barbara County Movers

Moving guys were great: on time, communicated well, competent/careful with my things (wrapping, loading & unloading); asked questions to be sure things were put where I wanted them. cheerful, couteous professional, competent. Well worth it to hire quality movers.

Lovely girls, very sweet, professional in interactions... But would prefer staff with more experience in how pack items and fill boxes tightly. I took them on tour of premises, showed them ALL the materials I had on hand, pre-packed boxes in old packing from 2 yr ago in garage, made some suggestions, and let them go to work. After about 50 min I looked at what had gotten done and HOW, then intervened to start packing stuff myself, since it didn't appear like it was getting done efficiently. {{FYI--- I had originally planned to pack myself, so I had a ton of packing materials already on hand (6 rolls of tape, masking tape, two boxes of clean newsprint, brown paper space filler paper, airbag fillers, bubblewrap, a heap of brown paper shopping bags -- good both for packing and for filling spaces in boxes; a special box for stemware with the foam sleeves for my good wineglasses...had several large plastic tubs (for small appliances) and quite a few heavy duty boxes, albeit mostly medium sized, which based on their 'training' might have thrown them off on how to utilize them effectively).... and they mostly used those, but not in the best way... }} For instance, at one point I looked in kitchen, saw shelves had been emptied... saw my special box for stemware sitting there...,empty... looked at pile of boxes... and said (paraphrasing) "so, where are my wine glasses?" Young lady pointed to small Meathead box, and said, "I put them in a small box". To which I said, "why didn't you use the stemware box, with all the cardboard dividers? Sleeves?" She apparently had not seen such a box before or been trained on how to use it.... SO, what I am saying is this: they were nice. Were well intended. Worked pretty hard, were NOT on phones or dilly dallying or anything like that...just young, inexperienced, didn't make the best use of the available materials... sort of more 'mindless' as in 'use small boxes' rather than looking at materials or stopping to ask. Before they left, I had to walk through and get some boxes closed up that were left sort of semi open and not taped shut... I didn't want to be MEAN, they were doing their best, but just wasn't happy with a perceived lack of attention, sort of 'work by rote' approach rather than looking at situation/querying me abt things...maybe I am too harsh in expecting a walkthru to show materials was sufficient to leave them to their own devices... Suggestion: Its HARD sending young staff into peoples' homes, period: situations may be different than their training has prepared them for. Maybe in addn to hiring students/inexperienced staff, you should consider pairing them with some older experienced people? Granted I may be more demanding, have greater expectations than some people, but I think a little more training in communication (abt use of materials) (when to stop and ASK a client about preferences) and materials use would be helpful... I just, perhaps unfairly, expected MORE from a company that offers this somewhat costly specialty service, than if I hired young relatives or random neighbors' kids... sorry. Again, THEY WERE NICE,THEY WERE PROFESSIONAL, just not enough experience...

Everything was more than we expected. A good company with excellent employees.

The movers were very on top of everything ,they did a wonderful job moving my mom from Ventura County to Santa Maria.I highly recommend these gentlemen. When I spoke to David from the Fresno office he was very polite very outgoing had a great personality and he really took care of me on the phone and I really appreciate that.I really hope that David services don't go unrecognized. DAVID is a real asset to your team with Meathead Movers. Thank you so much Doug Spohn.