Blue Event Horizon wrote:

Seeking recommendations and warnings about full service moving
companies for move from Santa Ana, California to Shelton, Washington.
Qualitiy, price, short notice moves and/or storage to adjust for the
matters associated with such moves, overall satisfaction or
dissatisfaction. Any info related to the subject welcome. This will
be an apartment to house move.


Assuming you don't have a storage unit or two full of stuff that needs to go
along with your apartment things, you really ought to think about renting a
truck and doing the move yourself. You'll save lots of money and be able to take
the cats. If you have two vehicles, one can be towed behind the truck and the
other driven by your partner.

Otherwise, you are at the mercy of the moving company. You won't fill a moving
van, so you stuff will likely be palletized and combined with other households.

A groups.google.com search will reveal many previous discusions on this topic.