Share moving day horrors

[DizznyChick]

i hired a moving company-paid $1500
and they didnt even have a map to get to the new house !!!!

 

[Jsme]

We were allowed to move into our new house a month early. We had it approved and everything. We had hired trunks to fill and the day we went to pick up the keys the seller had left with the keys to go to the beach and NEVER told us. What an %$#& he was. Should have learned at that time and never bought our house. We later had to sue the jerk to have him fix our new house. He was the builder. He told me on one conversation it would be a cold day in you know where...of course he did not put it that way before he fixed anything on my house. He is the type of person that has this God Bless you stuff on his answering machine. I hate people who talk the walk and do not walk it not ever with one step. We had bought a new house that had a one year warranty. Well guess what a cold day in you know where happened the day he was served with court papers!

Before you blast me I am a Christian but I do not care for people who flash their christinaity and then do the exact opposite.

 

[Disneyrsh]

Yes, to the boyfriend. We stayed in touch for a bit, but it was awful hard being so young and so far apart. So we let it go after almost a year. When I graduated from high school, I went back to VT to visit my friends, and even though he had another girlfriend, he asked me out. We had a great time together, started keeping in touch again, and he came to visit during my Spring Break from college. We were engaged (at DW) the summer after sophomore year and married after I graduated.

And to think my parents thought it was just puppy love.

Denae

OMG that's so romantic! I love those stories-DH and I have a similar one

 

[Disneyrsh]

We moved into a house with no gas (ie no hot water), no cable, and no phone as the outer bands of Hurricane Frances was fast approaching.

Backing up a bit--it took us about six hours to load the truck--we had planned on two. We got started late to begin with because DH had grossly miscalculated how long it would take to run some errands. (NEVER EVER EVER believe your husband when he says a trip to Home Depot will only take half an hour.)

We got to bed after midnight and were up at 3:00am. We still had to pick up my car where DH had left it at the truck rental place, and I needed to stop for bread because all the stores in FL were sold out. While in the grocery store I slipped and fell because they were mopping the floor and didn't have a wet floor sign out.

We finally got on the road, and ran smack into DC rush hour. On the way down every time we tried to put gas in the truck our Visa was declined. It took about five calls to Bank One to get that straightened out--what a nightmare.

We had a generator and gas cans with us, and DH filled the gas cans in GA just before we went over the state line into FL. At the Ag checkpoint they made DH open the back of the truck. The Ag Officer asked why he was carrying full gas cans (illegal--especially with DH having a class A CDL) and DH pointed to the genny and said he wasn't sure if we'd be able to get fuel as we got closer to "home", and pulled out the reciept where he has just filled them. The Ag guy cut him a break and sent him on his way.

We got a little further down the road and "Flo" unexpectedly came to visit, and I was caught very unprepared. We found a grocery store open to take care of that problem, but it added that much more time to the trip. We finally got to a hotel just north of Orlando around 4:00am, and were supposed to be at the house around 7:00 to unload the truck. We slept through the alarm and our friends called us at 7:10 wondering where we were. We got up and showered and dressed and topped off the gas tanks and drove to the house, arriving about 8:00.

As we got the last items off the truck the first rain drops hit. DH got some of the windows boarded and then had to give up. He was covered in sawdust and had to take a cold shower.

We didn't have a bed--it hadn't been delivered yet, and it didn't matter much because we ended up sleeping on the floor of the walkin closet due to tornado warnings. The second night we were there, we had a freak occurence where the smoke detector went off in the middle of the night, and then DH managed to set off the burglar alarm, and the only way we could turn that off was by cutting the wire.

By the time we were finally able to go to a hotel three days later, a hot shower never felt so good.

Anne

Wow, I think you win for one of the worst moving trips! We should vote!

And I think the name of the thread should be changed to "Reasons Never To Rent a U-Haul!"