Red Llama Moving & Storage LLC

One hundred and twenty-five Google ratings, not a single one below five stars, and the owner's own name — Leo — in most of them. That is the shape of Red Llama Moving & Storage, and it has held steady for years. The company is headquartered at 85 Essex St in Andover and describes itself as a modern relocation company with a traditional touch, working the surrounding communities, neighboring states and the Eastern Seaboard. It handles residential and commercial moves, office and event work, and will advise on storage — including warehouse, pod and on-site options during a remodel — rather than only selling its own space. What customers describe is a small owner-run crew doing the hard, awkward jobs other movers duck. In recent months they have carried a heavy vanity Home Depot abandoned in a foyer up a narrow stairwell, shifted a cast-iron stove into a garage, hauled roughly 75 bins from a basement to a second-floor attic, and run a three-way move between a house, a short-term condo and a storage unit in a single day, days after a two-foot snowstorm. One customer moved from Boston to Connecticut and singled out the bed being reassembled in record time. The reviews are unusually consistent about the things that go wrong with movers and did not here: crews arriving on time or early, furniture wrapped, nothing damaged, and quotes that held — one Andover-to-Wilmington customer said the final bill came in slightly under the estimate. Repeat business runs through the set, including a customer on their fourth move with the company, and named crew members — Paul, Tony, Travis — recur across years, which is not the pattern of a bought review set. What is worth pinning down is paperwork. The site states plainly that the company is licensed but publishes no number, and nothing here was checked against a state registry. Ask for the Massachusetts DPU household-goods-carrier licence and the certificate of insurance before booking. And if you need storage rather than advice about storage, ask whose facility your things will actually sit in. For a local or East Coast move where the awkward, heavy, tight-stairway items are the problem, this is a straightforward call — a small crew with an exceptionally clean record and a habit of taking the jobs bigger outfits price out of reach.