oh man oh man.
When I moved from Califirnia to Texas, I looked into every option I could think of and it was one horror story after another. I'll just give you the basics that seem to happen on a regular basis with moving companies.
They come to your home, look it over and give you a price. You agree to the price and schedule the day they are to arrive. They will arrive that day, or within a few days of the agreed upon date and load up your stuff. Lots of problems there, but that's to be expected.
Then the truck leaves. This is when your nightmare will begin. A few days later, somebody from the company will tell you there was a mistake made in your price quote. They will tell you that your stuff is either allot heavier than they realized or you have more stuff than agreed upon. You will than get the new price. From what I read, it's usualy $3,000 or more.
You have two choices, agree to pay the new price and get your stuff or fight them and never know where or what happens to you stuff. No body will tell you or know were it is. You are totally out on your own until they get paid.
Start searching the net about moving companies and read everything you can. Lot's of names are named, plus just about every moving company out there.
I was so scared of this happening to me, I rented a U-Haul truck three times and drove my stuff myself. I rented a storage unit, uloaded it and returned the truck. The first and second times I did some house hunting. Then I flew back one way. The third trip was the move.
It's a painful, miserable experience that I'd never want to repeat. A few thing I learned is that even after you go through everything, you will still move an unbelievable amount of stuff you don't want or need. This was realy anoying. The other thing that you can't do too well is label the boxes. Write everything down that's in the boxes. Load you boxes in alike items. I had boxes that I didn't open for three years because they were for my workshop, hunting and camping gear. Things I just didn't need right away.
Good luck,
Eddie