Top Ten Moving Day Mistakes

1. Don't hire a mover whose truck decides to break down the morning of your move. (Yes, it really did.)
2. Don't hire another mover where one out of the two-man team is smaller than your wife. (She could beat him up.)
3. Don't let them base their estimate on a simple question like "How many bedrooms do you have?" (They estimated 2000 lbs. We had 10,000!)
4. Don't let them bring two men, and then need to ask for two more. (Half way through, they decided they'd be here until morning so they called for reinforcement.)
5. Don't work with a settlement company who calls you the day of the move and says "Uh...there's a problem." (They transposed numbers and apparently we owed $300 bucks, which of course we weren't busy on our moving day, so we had to personally hand deliver our check.)
   
6. Don't worry about downpours.
7. Don't expect your carpet to survive the boots of the movers, especially when it rains.
8. The furniture will dent the walls in the most obvious places.
   
9. Always expect at least one thing to break.
10. Don't expect the move to take 3-4 hours like they said. (They started at 10:30 and didn't finish until 7 p.m.! Can we say hourly rate?)