Hiltz Moving & Storage

Hiltz Moving & Storage is a family-owned mover that's operated out of Gloucester since 1940 — more than 80 years — handling local, long-distance, and commercial moves along with packing and storage across the North Shore and beyond. Every one of the 58 reviews on file is five stars, spanning 2021 through this year, and the same names keep coming up: Diana in the office, praised again and again for being responsive and easy to work with from the first phone call, alongside crew members like Meg, Cosme, and Angel. The jobs described go well beyond a typical local move — a king-size bed carried down from a third floor after another crew couldn't manage it, an office relocated to three different buildings, furniture kept in storage for months during a renovation and returned without a scratch, and long-distance moves to South Carolina, Rhode Island, California, and Florida. On one out-of-state move, the owner personally drove the truck and helped unload at the other end. Several customers say they've used Hiltz repeatedly — one for 30 years, another twice within a year — and one interior designer specifically called out the company's attention to detail as rare in the area. Google backs all of this up with a 4.9-star average from 71 ratings. There isn't a documented downside anywhere across four sources and several years of activity — though the pace of new reviews has slowed recently, with just one in the past six months against a much heavier run in prior years. For a move of real complexity — long-distance, extra care needed, a stint in storage — this looks like an exceptionally well-established, trusted local choice with an unusually long, unblemished track record.