Newark, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
Newark covers a lot of ground and the moving job changes completely across it. In the Ironbound the streets are narrow, the housing is mostly two and three family, and the practical question is whether a truck can get down the block and stand there without blocking it. Sometimes the answer is a smaller truck and a longer carry, and it is better to plan that than to send the wrong vehicle.
Downtown and around the university campuses the work is apartment moves in managed buildings, which means the usual building requirements: insurance certificates, elevator access, and a front desk that needs to know we are coming. Around Rutgers-Newark and NJIT a lot of these are studios and one bedrooms, which are exactly the moves we can price off a room count in minutes and get on the calendar quickly.
Out in Forest Hill and Weequahic it is single-family houses, often older, often with a finished basement and a full attic, and the estimate depends far more on what is in those two rooms than on the number of bedrooms upstairs.
What we ask before we quote it
- Whether a full-size truck can reach and stand on the street
- Which floor, and whether there is an elevator
- Whether the building needs a certificate of insurance
- What is in the attic and the basement, because that is where estimates go wrong
