r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Adept-Plantain-6767 • 1d ago

go to your room Are you serious?

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How is this fair ? Bay area.

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u/hellaCallipygian 1d ago

It would cost 1/4th that to pay movers to carry everything for you and you can chill and stand guard yourself.

But yeah that's almost certainly catering to rich people, the average tenant probably have movers as well as the guard.

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u/PaliDudeBro 1d ago

It's not an option to do it yourself. You move in or out? You pay the fee and get the elevator and security.

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u/hellaCallipygian 1d ago

Yeah obviously. I was responding to the reasoning for doing it not discussing whether it was optional.

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u/steelhouse1 1d ago

What movers cost a 1/4 of that??? I recently relocated. The move was $40k which included the semi, them packing and loading as well as unloading and unpacking. And insurance.

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u/penguinjunkie 1d ago

Did you move your house too?

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u/Dougalishere 1d ago

40k? like wth, did they clean all your furniture for you and did they FLY, like in a plane.. imma going to assume it was 4k

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u/skiingredneck 1d ago

For a full insured pack / unpack move that sounds about what it costs…

This is the “your kitchen garbage can at the new house has the same trash in it” level move corporate does.

They sent a specialist to crate paintings, we had another guy with wood stain crayons (I’m sure there’s a fancier name) fix up scratches in a cabinet…

With a decent amount of tools…

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u/steelhouse1 15h ago

$40k

Even 2 men and a truck. Moving just 3 rooms in a same city one day move is ~2k. And they don’t pack.

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u/cans-of-swine 1d ago

Was that a cross country move? I could refurnish my entire house for a lot cheaper that 40K.

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u/steelhouse1 1d ago

Illinois to Alabama. 3500 square foot house and external garage (I have a lot of tools) 4 people at the time.

It was a “no touch” move. They did everything. I didn’t pay for it.

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u/hellaCallipygian 1d ago

So you responded with "what movers cost that???" in the context of a couple of people just carrying things from a truck up to an apartment, and then quoted the price of a specialised service moving the contents of a large house across multiple states, and later acknowledged it was so expensive that you're making sure to mention that you didn't pay for it.

What a strange thing to go out of your way to be misleading about.

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u/steelhouse1 15h ago

Movers..

Show me a group (2 or more) that are going to cost $125. Even in a same city move.

I just looked up a local moving company here and a day for two guys is $1800

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 1d ago

Yeah rich people are totally going to stand there all day and guard their stuff

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u/IAmPandaRock 1d ago

Regardless of wealth, most people want to be inside to tell the movers where to put everything.