A-1 Movers

A-1 Movers is a Swansea crew built around one name that keeps coming up: owner Curtis Sylvester, who by customers' accounts handles scheduling directly and often works the job himself. The foremen and movers named again and again across reviews — Greg, Alec, Austin, Matt, Paul — suggest a small, steady team rather than rotating hires. The volume here is hard to ignore: 117 reviews since 2025 across two platforms, and on Google the company holds a 5-star average from 123 ratings. In just the last six months, 30 reviews have landed and none were negative. The specifics repeat rather than vary: careful handling of furniture and floors, fast work — one 2026 review said the move finished in far less time than expected — and a willingness to take on the physically hard parts of a move. In a 2025 review, a customer described A-1 hauling a heavy old heater out of a third-floor apartment without a scratch on it; another described the crew carrying boxes down six flights of stairs to load a U-Haul, and a third, in a 2025 review, likened watching the team pack a storage POD to a work of art. Curtis explains the pricing model up front: you rent the truck yourself (the company often points customers to a local Swansea U-Haul), and A-1 supplies the crew and equipment for an hourly rate. Reviewers who mention it treat it as a heads-up rather than a complaint once they know the arrangement going in. A 2025 review from a woman moving on her own specifically credited Curtis's straightforward manner — quoting the hourly rate up front and telling her plainly what to expect — with putting her at ease. The one blemish on an otherwise clean record is a March 2025 review calling the experience "disastrous": the reviewer says the crew arrived without the advance call Curtis had promised, and a worker, not Curtis himself, seemed frustrated and pointed to a miscommunication on the company's end. It's an isolated account inside 117 reviews, but a real one worth knowing about before booking. For a local or regional move — apartment to apartment, a full house, even help getting someone's things from as far as Maine — the record here points to an owner-run crew that shows up, works fast, and treats what you own carefully. Worth confirming: the truck-rental arrangement and the hourly rate for your specific move.