Nick’s Moving Company

Nick's Moving Company has been packing and hauling boxes out of Cambridge since two guys with a van placed a small ad in the Boston Phoenix in the late 1980s. The company, still under founder Nicholas Lawrence per its Better Business Bureau file, says it's family-run and covers Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline, Watertown, and the North and South Shores with residential and commercial moving, packing, and storage. On Google it holds 3.9 stars from 80 ratings, and that number captures a real split in how people describe hiring them. In the last few months, two five-star reviews single out how painless booking was — one customer says the crew handled a full apartment's furniture and boxes in 3.5 hours. That kind of quick, no-drama job is the throughline in a lot of the praise going back years: friendly crews, fair prices, and careful handling of heavy or awkward pieces. The company's history also carries a real thread of billing and scheduling complaints, spread across nearly every year since 2021 — customers describing charges above the original quote, deposits that took weeks of calls to get refunded, and crews arriving hours past the promised window with no apology. None of that shows up in the handful of most recent reviews, but it's frequent enough across the company's history that it's worth pinning down before moving day: get the total price and any add-on fees (like an extra flight of stairs) confirmed in writing, and get a firm arrival window rather than a loose morning-or-afternoon estimate. The Better Business Bureau lists Nick's Moving at an A+ letter grade, though the company isn't BBB-accredited — that grade reflects the Bureau's own criteria rather than a customer-satisfaction score. Older press coverage, including a Boston Magazine write-up and a two-time Best of Boston movers award from 2001 and 2003, backs up that this is a long-standing, recognized name in Cambridge moving rather than a new outfit. For a straightforward local move in the Boston area, Nick's has the track record of a company that's done this for decades — just get the price and timing nailed down in writing before you commit, since that's where its history shows the most friction.