it's probably catering to richer people who would be more likely to have expensive things they are worried about people taking if it was left unattended. That and it's pretty common to leave your moving truck unlocked and open while you go inside
What movers cost a 1/4 of that??? I recently relocated. The move was $40k which included the semi, them packing and loading as well as unloading and unpacking. And insurance.
So you responded with "what movers cost that???" in the context of a couple of people just carrying things from a truck up to an apartment, and then quoted the price of a specialised service moving the contents of a large house across multiple states, and later acknowledged it was so expensive that you're making sure to mention that you didn't pay for it.
What a strange thing to go out of your way to be misleading about.
It's absolutely catering to rich people who have their own staff move their furniture in and out. I learned last year that the uber wealthy have seasonal furniture.
Probably also preventing someone up to no good from using the freight elevator. If there were a bunch of movers running up and down the elevator, it would be trivial for somebody to tailgate one of the movers into an otherwise secure elevator and gain access that way.
I’ve helped quite a few people move in NYC. When you move into an average apartment, you just have a U-Haul out front. With hundreds of people walking up and down the street, you want someone watching the open U-Haul. It’s not like when you move into some suburb and you just open the truck and take loads into the house.
This doesn’t mean it’s exceptionally dangerous or crime ridden, it just means that there’s so many people around you just want someone watching your stuff. Also, you might be parked illegally, so it helps to have someone watching the truck in case someone tries to give it a ticket.
As for the $2000 fee to have someone professional watching, I totally get that in some of the really nice apartment buildings I’ve visited. They’ve got doorman, watching all the doors, etc. It’s just part of the quality of life thing that some people pay for. Me, I’ve never had a doorman. I’ve never had a guard. I’ve always just had friends help move.
I just get my weakest friend to hang out in the truck and slowly move things to the lip so that we can load and move. It’s really no hassle. It’s totally normal. It’s not a big deal.
But it’s a situational difference between having a high-end apartment building having someone stand watch versus just having volunteers assigned to different tasks.
In neither case is the presence of a guard (paid or volunteer) an indication that the neighborhood is to be avoided. That’s all I’m sayin’. Nothing to cause worry.
Where could you move that isn't the middle of nowhere where you wouldn't prefer someone to watch over literally everything that you own sitting on the street otherwise unattended?
Eh I live in the UWS and I would hire a security guard to do this if I had the cash just because it’s NYC and you never know what could happen when you’re upstairs but the UWS is probably the neighborhood in NYC where the security guard is the least needed
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u/Spartan-117182 Jul 22 '26
Thats at least something for the price. Kinda worried to move in somewhere that needs a security guard present for moving in.