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At Mark the Mover, located near midtown Atlanta, we will be glad to come up to help you with your household moving project in Alpharetta Ga. But most of all, we want to make sure our friends and neighbors in Alpharetta get a square deal in their local and long distance moving project.

We have long recommended that consumers who are hiring moving companies for the first time in their life, and want to learn about the moving industry use the web site www.movingscam.com – These people started a forum on moving because one of them learned that there are moving companies that should not have been trusted in the moving industry. It is with deep regret that I even mention that, but the fact is, anyone with a truck can pose as a moving company. At Mark the Mover, we have even gotten bad reviews from people who thought they were using Mark the Mover, but they were dealing with a guy that faked some of our letterhead! So, we get burned too, and it just isn’t right.

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Folks looking for a moving company near Duluth Ga often pick Mark the Mover, and they pick us because of recommendations of friends and neighbors. With over three decades of moving company experience in and around Atlanta Mark the Mover has moved a lot of people. At Mark the Mover, our primary marketing focus is on providing a good moving service for our customers.

Mark the Mover gets more customers because they moved with us in the past than for any other reason. This allows us to spend less on advertising and marketing than less established and more desperate moving companies. We also don’t buy leads. If you fill out one of those forms on a website promising a call from up to five different moving companies, don’t expect a call from Mark the Mover. The moving companies that will be calling you simply don’t have the reputation and the number of happy moving customers that we have at Mark the Mover.

Another means that consumers use to find a good moving company is to look for online reviews. Two websites that folks often use are Yelp and Home Reports.

We mention quality when it comes to reviews, because you can’t always believe the reviews. Sometimes companies leave reviews for themselves, so consumers should watch out for that.  Yahoo is the worst for reviews it seems, some companies review themselves in waves. You won’t see a new review for a month or two, and then all of the sudden there are a dozen reviewers just glowing about how great the company was. One trick we use is to take the text of the sentence and search google, and we usually find that the same dripping praise is repeated for dozens of company locations all over the United States. Fat chance of that happening for real.

So the best kind of review, from family or co-worker, is the type of review that works out best for Mark the Mover. Ask around, and we are sure you will find people that were happy with the household relocation services attained from Mark the Mover near Duluth Ga. 

When searching for a reliable moving company, many of our customers find Mark the Mover because of friends, neighbors and co-workers. Anybody that has had a bad experience with moving knows that there is a wide range in the quality of available moving services. Household relocation is a business that we need infrequently, the average American moves only once every seven years. When we are younger, we don’t have as much stuff, and after we acquire more furniture, our household becomes too large to move ourselves.

We also need to consider our health and the liabilities involved in moving ourselves. If someone is hurt, or damage occurs to the apartment we are moving out of occurs, we don’t really carry the kind of insurance needed to cover a large problem. Sure, if a wall is scratched the cost is small and we can apply some paint and plaster. But damage to floors, doors and windows can get expensive quickly, and only a reputable insured moving company can be trusted to cover your back in these instances.

In order to find that company we can trust, more and more people are turning to the internet, and two places in particular have a lot of information for moving customers near Roswell, Georgia, and Alpharetta and Johns Creek. First there is Kudzu.com, very popular in Atlanta with lots of ratings for Atlanta moving companies in addition to restaurants and other service companies. Other consumers use Yelp, the Angie thing and these are good ways to see the kind of feedback a business has received.

Fulton County is large, running from the North, which is the old Milton County districts including Johns Creek and Sandy Springs down through Buckhead, which is expensive, Midtown, Downtown and on the south end is the old Fulton County Stadium area which includes the Atlanta Braves Turner Field. Moving your household to Atlanta and staying in Fulton County gives you a wide range of options.

Areas improving rapidly include midtown and the southwest Virginia Highland and Little Five Points Areas. You really have to hunt for bargains, as for example in prime real estate areas of the largely residential Virginia Highland district (west of Moreland Ave. is Fulton County) land can range from less than $100k to over a million per acre, depending on which block it is on.

If you do not need to live in the city, North Fulton, as well as Gwinnett and Cobb Counties offer affordable apartment living on the Northern Perimeter. On the other hand, if by ‘still in school’ you are considering Georgia State U., you should look at West Dekalb County along Interstate 20. Again, along Moreland Avenue there are some still attractively priced but rapidly improving areas.

Although Mayor Shirley Franklin (since term limited out) was attempting to increase the residential populations in the downtown area housing there is not readily available as it is in midtown or east of downtown and midtown. Also, downtown Atlanta has a vagrancy problem akin to other cities. Crime generally decreases, and grade school quality improves as you go north in Fulton County.

Largish apartments start around $1350, but in North Fulton there may be some bargains, and there are for sure some better deals in Gwinnett and Cobb counties.

One hip new area is Atlantic Station. Very close to Georgia Tech University, it is also rapid transit accessible with Georgia State University. The down side is that housing here jumps almost 50% higher in cost, but it might be a good starting point. There is parking included with most apartments, but your parking space may be somewhat of a hike from your front door.

The subway covers a good bit of Fulton County north to south. From Atlantic Station, you can hike or take a shuttle to the Marta (subway) station at their Arts Center station. On a nice day you would skip the shuttle and take a nice urban 1/2 mile walk.

Marta also goes through the Northside / St. Joseph hospital district, which, if that is a career path you fit into, offers tons of employment. It continues up to Sandy Springs and Dunwoody, which are another possible place to live. You will find less expensive housing in Sandy Springs and if you can work the health sciences jobs, this is a definite place to look. Upscale Sandy Springs apartments can run $1600 a month, very roomy, usually over 1100 square feet.

Less trendy and less convenient apartments north of the hospital district (two bedroom) can be as little as $1100 a month.

Jobs. Buckhead features a lot of financial jobs, Midtown and downtown are full of lawyers, and there are banking jobs in Downtown, Midtown, Atlantic Station and Buckhead. Software careers are abundant further north, starting in Sandy Springs but getting really varied north of Marta in Roswell and Alpharetta Georgia.

Back in the city, science and University jobs constantly available from Georgia Tech, Georgia State University, Emory University, Center for Disease Control and Oglethorpe just to name a few. CDC positions, with the proper credentials can start in excess of 50k, so with two of you working it would make ends meet quite well.

In short, Fulton County, north to south really consists of five major city centers, the sprawling and bland Alpharetta / Roswell tech district, the perimeter/hospital district, Buckhead, Midtown and Downtown Atlanta. Along the fringes of those areas are some out of reach expensive areas and some hidden treasures.

At www.markthemover.com click the Household Inventory button to take a household inventory for moving and relocating. Whether you are using a moving company, or a container company, it is useful to make your own estimate of the weight and volume in cubic feet of your household goods. There is no obligation for using the online cubesheet calculator and it is available most of the time when server capacity permits. You will need to use your email address and create a password to use the free online cubesheet calculator, and then you can go from room to room on your ipad or tablet using any internet browser to enter the items in your household inventory.

At the top of every page is a link that allows you to email the results of the inventory to your email address. You will receive no other emails in connection to the free cubesheet online calculator than those you request. Our secure encrypted servers will store your email address and household inventory for 90 days, after which it is permanently deleted. Your email address is not sold or disclosed to anyone.

When renting a storage locker, containers like pods or ABF Relocubes, or just using long distance moving companies that charge by weight and volume, it is useful to have your own estimate of the weight and volume of household goods for moving. When an unknown moving company provides a quote based on weight and volume with fine print that allows them to charge extra if the estimate is exceeded, their intentions are generally to provide a low-ball estimate and to hold your possessions hostage until you pay extra charges. Reputable moving companies will not do this to consumers, as they have a reputation to protect. Not that every unknown moving company will play games, as consumers we should always look for new companies that may find innovative and lower cost ways to carry furniture around.

For an on-line weight and volume calculator, known in the moving industry as a cubesheet, visit free online cubesheet