My mother lives in DC and needs someone good with a truck and a couple of guys who can move two beds from Silver Spring to the district. For understandable reasons, she's worried about hiring someone off Craigslist. Any suggestions?
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Hire someone off Craigslist. At least, the movers I found there were WAY better than the "professionals" from the phonebook. YMMV
Oh, you forgot to ask if someone could give you a ride to the airport, and water your plants while you are away.
Tell her to look up her local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints congregation and ask for "home teachers" to make a visit and help her move...
Don't hire someone from Craigslist.
Next.
I use emove.com when I move, it helpful for hired hands, they have set prices and reviews, I have used it 3x since 2004. It always worked out.
Here's an idea: Get a couple of your "Blogger Army" friends to rent a truck & help you & your mother. Isn't that what libertarianism is all about, rather than cheating your employer w/ another "bleg," and relying on others to do your work for you?
College Hunks Hauling Junk
5221 Nebraska Ave NW
Washington, DC 20015
http://www.1800JunkUSA.com
2 reviews here:
http://www.insiderpages.com/b/15238677350
Article here:
http://www.gazette.net/stories/122706/potonew181757_31990.shtml
M.Bouffant wrote: Here's an idea: Get a couple of your "Blogger Army" friends to rent a truck & help you & your mother. Isn't that what libertarianism is all about, rather than cheating your employer w/ another "bleg," and relying on others to do your work for you?
Or, you could permit MM and her employer to be the sole judges of whether or not she is in violation of an employment contract negotiated solely between those two parties. Isn't that what libertarianism is all about, blah blah blah?
Seriously though, you probably don't need to worry about The Atlantic's blogging web resources. If they were interested in fishing out and elminating alleged petty bandwidth abuses, you and the rest of the FMM.blaughspot groupies would surely have received a complementary Italian boot-n'-bath treatment a long time before now.
I have no idea, but it brings back memories of when I was moving back to DC from a year abroad and had to retrieve stuff from storage. My roommate and I hired these guys from the phonebook, two guys and a van I think it was called. Their nicknames quickly became Dumb and Dumber as they established their educational credentials through smalltalk, but that didn't bother me as long as they could do their job. In the event, they left an entire three-seat sofa in the storage unit. When we said "where's the sofa guys?" they were like, aw shucks. Then they said they had to go to do another job. And the storage place fined us since it took another day to get the sofa out. So do be careful.
The description is basically calling out for Two Guys and Truck.
http://www.twoguysandatruck.com/
They only get a 72% on Washington Consumers' Checkbook, but they are okay for smaller jobs and no warning. Should be less than $150/hr which is what they charged for three guys on a weekend. She could get similar quality movers from her local day laborer sites for about $50.
I can has groupies?