For $300 Less Than Other Quotes

when climate activist

Seth Laxman moved from a thirdfloor walk-up in Flatbush to a new apartment in Bed-Stuy in May, he reached out to Lou Moves You, which had previously moved his girlfriend, and got a quote of $625—nearly $300 less than a larger moving company he had contacted. Educator Toomi Al-Dhahi, who moved from Harlem to Brooklyn in April, said the same thing: “Lou was a sweet deal—$300 or $400 less than any of the other quotes I got.” Owner Lou DeFabrizio keeps prices down by keeping overhead low. He runs the business with his wife and one office assistant and typically hires a crew of artists and musicians who are in between creative projects, so that they can, he says, “make a bunch of money and then use that to do what they love.” (DeFabrizio is a musician himself.) Both Laxman and Al-Dhahi say that DeFabrizio’s team of movers (“a handful of guys right out of Bushwick in their 20s,” adds AlDhahi) did an impeccable job, and according to Laxman, “They fit my really huge couch through a tiny doorway in five minutes like wizards.” In fact, he recommended Lou Moves You to a friend who moved in June, who “said it went great.”