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July 2024 by Robert Masuoka
Cathy, our Move Manager, made the process to move my mom’s items less stressful; she managed all of the logistics including the mover, Darrell and team, setup the room and sent us photos upon completion. Cathy and Darrell knew this type of move is emotionally stressful and treated us with upmost care. We didn’t have to meet them at the new destination. Their experience didn’t require more than a simple sketch to setup the place.
Also, our move had many factors influencing the move date and Cathy kept in constant contact to make this smoothly happen. She managed the scheduling of the mover and made sure on their availability we confirmed the date.
Cathy provided us with a detailed proposal based on our needs. I didn’t price anyone else since they were recommended by a friend and results confirmed it.
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July 2024 by Lisa Baker
I am an active 73-year old woman, but faced with the stressful task of ruthlessly downsizing from my three-story Victorian to a small one-story bungalow was overwhelming, even after many months of hard work getting rid of as many items as I could. I am an artist and an antique collector, and I had lived in my beloved house for over 45 years, so even though it was tidy and curated, there was simply a lot of stuff that had to go to new homes. I managed to clear out a lot, but I was exhausted and there was still so much to do. I simply couldn’t do any more on my own, and I contacted Senior Settlers. Their incredible service was worth every penny, and they even came in under budget!! I had things as organized as I could to make their job easier, but it was truly amazing what they accomplished in less than a week, without breaking or damaging a single item. Many skilled and careful hands made for an efficient process of first measuring rooms and proposed furnishings to figure out a floor plan in the smaller space, organizing and packing up everything I wanted to keep (and gently advising on what to leave behind), moving me out and unpacking at the new address, putting dishes in cupboards, food in the refrigerator, clothes in closets, and books on shelves in a logical manner, taking all of the boxes and wrappings and trash away (and even taking back to the old house some pieces of furniture that ended up being too big for the new space), having a computer technician get my digital devices and internet functioning, and even helping me hang my art on my new walls with a skilled eye for placement and arrangement! On the final day they cleared out everything left in my old house, leaving it completely empty, and took the few remaining furnishings to be donated. On top of all of this, they were cheerful, kind, compassionate about the huge trauma I was going through, and very, very smart and funny. I can’t say enough about Libby, Stacey, Chuck, Tom, Johnson, Suzanne, Leslie and Camille, as well as Darrell the mover and his crew – they were all terrific people and very hard workers. Kudos to all, and my deepest gratitude!!
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April 2024 by phyllis gardner
Hiring Senior Settlers was the best decision we made. Libby was wonderful in organizing and helping us through downsizing our home and readying us for our move. She brought together the necessary person power for packing, hauling, dumping and charitable giving as we escavated our home of 25 years.
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March 2024 by Marilynn Maggi-Miceli
Tammy and Donna from Senior Settlers organized the move of my aunt to memory care. They helped us to downsize her apartment and to set up a subset of furniture, art work, family pictures and collectibles into my aunt’s new room. It was a pleasure to work with this team. They both made it so easy! Such a great service! I will use them again!!
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October 2023 by Martha O'Halloran
Senior Settlers were a great team to help clear out my sister's home when poor health required a move to be closer to family in another state. Supportive, attentive and efficient.
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October 2023 by J. Lloyd
Libby and her crew made a very harrowing move for my 90 year old mom with dementia the best possible experience. I highly highly recommend Senior Settlers. Super professional, very kind, and they get it done!
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August 2023 by Michael Martin
Thank you Senior Settlers team for your support and professionalism. This is the 2nd opportunity that we've worked together and words cannot express my appreciation and satisfaction. I want to give a special SHOUT OUT to Cathy for her guidance and direction during the transition. Cathy you are a blessing. Thank you ALL again!!
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July 2023 by Don D.
Senior Settlers helped us downsize my parents 70 year old home today = a lot of stuff. My wife and I want to give Libby, Tammy, Kathy, Tom, Todd, Darrel and his crew 400 stars!!!!!!!!!This is the best team I have ever seen! Professional, punctual, knowledgeable, thoughtful, resourceful, motivated, fun to work with, incredibly organized and an awesome work ethic. They worked nonstop and thought of everything, even making incredibly helpful suggestions for donations, recycling and packing.We liked the crew so much that we took their picture when the job was completed!They really went the extra 10 miles for us. Special thanks to Owner, Libby for being so resourceful, respectful, and just an all around helpful, nice person. (Sorry if I left out any names. Please know we greatly appreciate all of you!!!!!!)Hire Senior Settlers! I will for sure when I need help again!!!
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June 2023 by Shoshannah F.
Senior Settlers saved the day! I had just started a new job and had zero bandwidth to assist my aunt when the house was sold and she had a month to move. She was completely overwhelmed and frozen with the tasks ahead. Fortunately I remembered reading about this kind of service and hit the jackpot on the first call from a list of accredited senior movers. Libby and Tammy at Senior Settlers showed so much thoughtfulness, thoroughness, professionalism, and expertise. And they also showed empathetic compassion for older adults who are facing a huge life change. I think the value they delivered for the price was incredible. My aunt and I were both impressed and strongly recommend Senior Settlers.
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February 2023 by Betsy Frey
I needed help moving from one assisted living community to another, both in the Bay Area. Libby sent a crew to pack up our belongings and unpack them at the new place. She also helped arrange for movers. Moving is never an easy process, but Senior Settlers were a huge help during the transition.
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February 2023 by Betsy F.
I needed help moving from one assisted living community to another, both in the Bay Area. Libby sent a crew to pack up our belongings and unpack them at the new place. She also helped arrange for movers. Moving is never an easy process, but Senior Settlers were a huge help during the transition.
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January 2023 by Carol Page
When my aunt realized that she did perhaps need to move to an assisted living facility, she was overwhelmed just thinking about the task of disbanding her current living situation and re-establishing it in a studio apartment across the Bay Area. Fortunately I had a friend who’d been through this process, and she recommended the staff at Senior Settlers in glowing terms. It was this reference and the fact that they are a local organization and woman-owned that made me feel confident they were the right team for the job. They did not disappoint! Over a series of visits, they began the process of helping my aunt make loads of decisions about what she would take with her, what she’d like to donate, what could be discarded, and what given to specific others. They were very patient, and they really listened to her. In fact, they told me that they enjoyed talking to her, and she says she enjoyed talking with them, so the interaction wasn’t just about logistics. After the decisions were made, they took responsibility for making things go where they were supposed to—relieving my aunt of that worry which she had been so dreading.They packed up all the things besides furniture that were to go to the new place, and they marked them very clearly. Still, it was a miracle to watch how they unpacked and arranged things on the other end of the move. It was almost as if her living space was just as it had been but shrunk to comfortably fit in a studio apartment. She had all of her “stuff” just where it was appropriate for her needs—clothes hung or shelved in the closet, bathroom articles in drawers and arranged on the counters, her “office stuff” on the table beside her, etc. She was asked for her input about where everything should go, but when she couldn’t decide, they offered helpful solutions. By the end of moving day, she was ready to “take possession” of her new space—it was ready for her, all but having cable TV set up, and Senior Settlers had even taken care of arranging that.What I haven’t said much about was how the primary helper for this job, Tammy Key, got along with us, Jean’s family. She was a delight to work with, managing to be cordial and friendly while moving efficiently through the many tasks involved in getting the move accomplished. She established an immediate rapport with the movers as well. In fact, although we were all pretty exhausted by day’s end, I look back wonderingly at how smoothly everything went, in large part because of Tammy and Senior Settler’s excellent help. I wholeheartedly recommend them for getting your senior loved one re-settled.
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July 2022 by penelope m.
We are competent seniors planning a major downsizing and multi part move. Competent though we are, the job seemed overwhelming but after consulting with owner Libby, we realized that help was available and could make the whole process smoother and less stressful. We tackled some small parts of the project months in advance and then in the final days Libby and team packed all the small and fragile items for the movers and cleaned out the remaining items from top to bottom. Libby has many community resources for help and places that can use donations or resell useable items. We appreciate all the help and consider it money well spent. Our backs and our sanity survived!
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April 2022 by Mariposa D.
Libby, Todd, Daryl, Tom - best crew we could have asked for. We tackled a 4 bedroom house in 6 hours, and they took care of everything from dump hauling to shredding to e-waste to chemicals. She helped us sell a car, she got a lot of things donated, we were so impressed. Our family is so grateful, we absolutely could not have achieved this task ourselves, and this full service experience was so helpful. Thank you senior settlers!
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January 2022 by Nicole L.
I cannot adequately express my gratitude for Libby and her amazing team. My father lived in San Francisco and I'm in Minnesota, and he wanted to move close to me to do another round of chemo but was supposed to start treatment right away. We were able to get him fully moved here less than 2 weeks after his decision to relocate and it was only possible because of Senior Settlers. They shipped a huge amount of sentimental items to me (all masterfully packed and meticulously tracked), kept us informed of all of the wonderful places that my dad's abundant amount of stuff was donated, and communicated with the real estate agent who would list the condo once it was empty. When we walked out of the place, it still looked like someone lived there, and they took care of everything. We left papers to be shredded, paint and old medication to be disposed of, food in the refrigerator, silver to be sold. The feat they accomplished was incredible and relieved such a burden from us. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Senior Settlers. You made an incredibly difficult time significantly easier.
