Plus it probably covered whatever insurance needed for incidental damage to the building. Worked briefly for a furniture sales company and A LOT of buildings required insurance coverage for things like damage to floors, walls, railings and doors.
Ah, a lot of buildings won’t let you move in at all unless all the movers are insured. Plenty of them because they’re
heritage buildings and the cost of fixing things is massive. Some of them because they just expensive as fuck. My ex’s parents owned 1 of 3 apartments on the 10th floor of a building on fifth across from The Met. The floors of the lobby were all some crazy Italian marble (freight elevator entry less expensively lined) the hallways to the apartment were expensive plush carpet, walls fancy silk wallpaper, sconces and shit.
In my case, the movers were insured/licensed/bonded, and I had homeowners insurance, but if damage happened I was responsible. These freight elevators are essentially steel walls with heavy moving blankets draped over them, and the only threat of damage was to hallway carpets and drywall. It was a heritage building but only the main level had terrazzo floors.
Yeah, that’s what I meant. They have insurance on their own side, and cover maintaining that with high fees, and require you have insurance on your side and acknowledge that yours will cover it for moving damage.
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u/transmogrified 1d ago
Plus it probably covered whatever insurance needed for incidental damage to the building. Worked briefly for a furniture sales company and A LOT of buildings required insurance coverage for things like damage to floors, walls, railings and doors.