NorthStar Moving Company gets great reviews, which is the biggest reason I selected them, and two months after my move, I still deeply regret trusting the reviews and selecting them, I can only imagine all the reviews were paid for. The estimator performed a quick and efficient review of everything that needed to be moved. I got the estimate from him two days later, which is long considering this is usually a same-day turnaround event, and the estimate was rather confusing. I responded to him with clarifying questions, but he didn't respond. I then called NorthStar to follow up, whoever mans the phones (we'll call them customer service) did a great job of being helpful. I had to talk to customer service quite a bit to figure out the details of my move since the estimator (who becomes your rep), was not responsive at all. I have to say the team that handled the additional insurance was friendly and helpful too. On the moving day, the moving crew arrived and they were very nice and professional. They however made it very clear that they felt I had a lot of things that needed to be packed and moved (guess the estimator referred to above did not do as decent of a job as I originally thought), and it took their team of 4 people over 8 hours to pack everything. We're talking about a < 500 sq ft one bedroom apartment where only one person lived so you can do the math. I also recently moved from Washington DC to San Francisco, so I have a good frame of reference of what reasonable expectations are. It took them over 2 weeks to get my things to Seattle, a 12 hour drive (my move from DC to SF (ACROSS the country) took 10 days, and cost over $2,000 less). They do consolidate shipments so assume I had to wait for them to get another customer moving this way, all of which is reasonable, but they never once contacted me to let me know all my things in their possession were still okay and when to expect the delivery. After almost 2 weeks I called them, at which point they scuffled around to get to the ever non-responsive rep, and then called me back with a confirmation. Finally, their arrival in Seattle. I paid for full service packing and unpacking services. The moving team was friendly as always, but complained about having to climb stairs to my house, as if it was something I had control over. I have a total of 10 stairs leading to my front door, so we're not talking about flights of stairs here. In addition, I had to pay them additional fees because of the stairs, so not like they had to do it for free. I was available to point them in the right direction for the boxes, but then we realized the moving team in San Francisco did not label all the boxes, so for most of them we had no idea what was inside and had to guess where they needed to go. Most of my big pieces of furniture, including my couch, bed and office desk were either completely broken, or damaged when it arrived. They reassembled my bed but left parts of it out, so I couldn't use the bed until I got someone to come help me remove the mattress and reassemble the bed. Finally, they left without unpacking any boxes. I thought perhaps we didn't include the unpacking services in my quote after all, but when I checked after they left, we did, so they knowingly left me paying for a service they never provided. I'm sure most will read this review and see it as an exception based on all the other positive reviews, I know I did, but if you're looking for a company where you get value for the money you spend. you value being informed, and you'd like your things to be treated carefully, I would encourage you to look elsewhere.