Review by Dan D.

NorthStar has made moving (and packing) simple, speedy, affordable, and pleasant. I just finished my third and longest move with NorthStar. My first experience was moving a single block in Downtown LA, the second from Downtown to Santa Monica, and the third from Santa Monica to Marin County in the SF Bay Area. Each time has been simple, pleasant, and easy on my finances. In my time in LA (10+ years) I have moved nearly every other year and used to always rent a UHAUL, buy tons of boxes, and ruin friendships begging for help– using NorthStar is significantly easier and cheaper, and you get to keep your friends. My latest move was the most complex given two pick-up sights, one of which needed to be packed and a drop-off location that required some skilled driving through tiny/winding roads. We scheduled an in-home estimate (working over the phone is easier than email with them, so just call, they are super accommodating) easily, our contact person, Ron Cohen, was friendly and helped us to think through all the parts of the move we needed. We scheduled an exclusive move (which for the amount of stuff we had was not significantly more money) so that we could have a 2-day window of drop off scheduled. One thing to note: they did require that I pay in cash or with a debit card: 1/2 on pickup, 1/2 on delivery- no credit cards or checks accepted. On the day of pick-up the team arrived at the earliest side of the window and packed an entire medium-sized one-bedroom apartment in just over 4 hours, numbering and cataloguing each box as they packed it; packing fragile items extremely carefully with blankets and cardboard. The pick-up at the second location (already packed) took about an hour because they also had to wrap up fragile items. The drop off went smoothly, arriving earlier than I had initially thought was possible. Crews on both ends were incredibly great– friendly, helpful, professional, and quick. A huge thank you to NorthStar, their representatives, and crewmembers for making a bit of a stressful activity into one that was easily conducted and affordable.