The Better Moves Project

Most online moving reviews only tell part of the story. That’s why we created the Better Moves Project, a program where real people share their full moving experiences.

If you’re planning a long-distance move, you can earn $500 for documenting your journey. Your story could help thousands of families choose movers with confidence and less stress.

Join a growing community of Better Moves participants who are transforming the moving industry. So far, we’ve awarded over $50,000 in grants—proof that this program is already changing how people move.

Apply for the Better Moves Project

Big news: moveBuddha has committed $100,000 in funding to expand the Better Moves Project, underscoring our mission to bring more transparency and real-world insights to the moving industry.

• Apply: Fill out a short application with details about your upcoming long-distance move. Our team reviews applications and usually responds within two weeks.
• Sign a waiver: In addition to submitting our application, you must agree to the Project’s Additional Terms and Conditions and submit a Waiver and Release of Liability in favor of moveBuddha, in connection with your move.
• Get selected: We choose participants on a rolling basis, focusing on people moving long distances with professional movers. If we pick you, you’ll confirm your participation and agree to the program’s terms.
• Share your move: Complete a few quick surveys and share photos or documents at key stages of your move. We’ll guide you through everything. Expect to spend just 1–2 hours total.
• Get $500: Once your move is complete and you’ve submitted everything, we’ll send you a $500 stipend to put towards your moving costs.

Ready to get started? Jump to the application form.

Want to read more? Access all of our Better Moves stories here.

1. Better Moves Project Grant Eligibility Criteria.

(a) The moveBuddha Better Moves Project is aimed at helping individuals gain better insight and more transparency relating to the moving process from other users who have enlisted the services of companies which provide transportation related moving services (generally referred to herein as “Movers”). In order to gain more insight into the moving process and set more realistic expectations for others, we are launching the Project.

(b) The Project is intended to provide eligible persons (including the User) with the Better Moves Grant, a FIVE HUNDRED DOLLAR ($500.00) grant that is intended to be used by the User as reimbursement of costs related to their competed move, in exchange for the User’s testimonials as to their actual moving experiences. In order to be eligible for the Better Moves Grant, Users must:

(i) Be a United States Citizen, and be at least eighteen (18) years of age;

(ii) Be a current legal resident of one of the fifty (50) US States or the District of Columbia (D.C.), who are physically located and residing therein (excluding Guam, Puerto Rico and all other US and foreign territories and possessions);

(iii) Enter into a Moving Agreement with Movers through the use of our Services;

(iv) Complete a qualifying move of five hundred (500) miles or more;

(v) Move the contents of at least one-bedroom apartment or greater through the use of our Services;

(vi) Make a qualifying move within six (6) months of applying for the Better Moves Grant; and

(vii) Provide all information, surveys and documentation relating to the move, as required by us as part of the Project.

(c) Eligible Users may not be an official or employee of the Company, or any affiliate, nor an immediate family member of the same household of such employees and/or officials. The Better Moves Grant is void where prohibited by law.

2. Better Moves Grant Entry Requirements.

In order to apply for a Better Moves Grant, the User must click on the link located at movebuddha.com/better-moves-project and complete the Better Moves Grant Application (the “Application”), as instructed. Only Users who provide a valid phone number and email address as part of their Application will be considered. The Application must be completed and fully submitted. The date of submission will be determined by the date that we receive a User’s Application. Only one (1) entry per User will be considered valid, and multiple entries will be discarded, and may disqualify any such applicant, in the Company’s sole discretion.

3. Better Moves Grant Application Selections.

(a) Applications which have been properly completed and submitted will be reviewed by the Company, in due course, and applicants will be selected by the Company to move forward, at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion. No User is guaranteed to be selected or to receive a Better Moves Grant, and the Company may consider, approve and/or eliminate applications for any reason, or no reason, in its sole discretion.

(b) Users who have submitted an Application will be selected and notified on a rolling basis, subject to the Company’s sole election to continue the Project. Users will be notified via the phone number and/or e-mail address provided as part of the User’s Application. If the User cannot be contacted or does not claim the opportunity to participate in the Project within fourteen (14) days following the notification from us, then we reserve the right to withdraw the offer from the User and pick a replacement user for possible receipt of a Better Moves Grant. We are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by tampering, hacking, or by any of the equipment or programming associated with the Application. If awarded, a Better Moves Grant cannot be substituted, assigned, or transferred by the User. We reserve the right to disqualify Users who fail to follow these Better Moves Terms and/or the General Terms, or who make any misrepresentations or false statements related to the Company or to the Better Moves Grant.

4. Media Release.

The User hereby grants and conveys unto us all rights, title and interest in any and all testimonials, surveys, photographic images, video or audio recordings (the “Media”) made by the User as part of the Project. The User further authorizes us to use such images, words, and likenesses for marketing, on websites, in brochures or other writings and any for any other legitimate purpose. The User hereby voluntarily releases and holds harmless us, our directors, employees, and agents acting officially or otherwise, from all manner of suits, actions, claims, demands, and liabilities which may arise from such Media participation. This release applies to any and all media known, and hereafter devised, in perpetuity throughout the world. The User understands that all media remains the property of us, and waive all rights to original Media, copies of Media, royalties, entitlements, payments, or any other compensation or quid pro benefits which might arise from our acquisition, storage, display, publication, posting, or distribution of Media as described herein. By participating in the Project, the User agrees to a full and complete waiver of all possible claims of any nature whatsoever, including claims of negligence, personal injury or property loss, or damage, arising out of said Media participation.

5. Execution of Waiver and Release of Liability Agreement and Completion of Additional Surveys.

Concurrently with the submission of the Application, the User agrees to execute a Waiver and Release of Liability agreement, in the form provided by the Company, as consideration for the potential receipt of the Better Moves Grant and such additional surveys, documents, instruments or agreements as we shall determine are reasonably necessary or appropriate prior to, during and after the User’s move, including, if applicable, a W-9 (collectively, the “Additional Documents”). Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the User agrees and acknowledges that we are not required to deliver to the User the Better Moves Grant until such time as the User has executed the Additional Documents.

6. Disclaimer and Limitations of Liability.

The Section of the General Terms entitled “Disclaimer and Limitations of Liability” is expressly incorporated herein by reference, and shall apply with equal force to these Better Moves Terms. In addition to, and not in lieu of, the limitations provided therein, in any event, our total aggregate liability to any User, with respect to any dispute arising in connection with the Project or any Better Moves Grant, shall not exceed a maximum of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00).

7. Additional Disclaimers.

These Better Moves Terms are subject to all Federal, State and local laws and regulations. The Project and the Better Moves Grant is not a contest, sweepstakes, lottery or game of chance, of any kind, and no user should expect the same. The Better Moves Grant is intended to be a specific payment to selected eligible persons in exchange for their submission of valuable information to the Company, and any representation to the contrary is specifically disclaimed. Users agree that we shall not be liable for losses or injuries of any kind resulting from acceptance/possession and/or use/misuse of the Better Moves Grant, participation in the Project, or any technical malfunctions of the telephone network and/or transmission line, computer on-line system, computer dating mechanism, computer equipment, hardware, software, or any combination thereof, or any entries that are late (including delayed data transmissions), tampered with, garbled, incomplete, misdirected, lost, mutilated, delayed, corrupted, mechanically duplicated, or otherwise not in compliance with these Better Moves Terms. We reserve the right to modify or cancel the Project and/or the Better Moves Grant at any time at our sole discretion with or without notice to any Users.

8. Severability and Non-Waiver.

If any provision of these Better Moves Terms is held in whole or in part to be unenforceable for any reason, then the remainder of that provision and of the entire Better Moves Terms will be severable and remain in effect. Any failure by us to require the User’s performance of any provision in these Better Moves Terms shall not affect the User’s rights at any time thereafter, nor shall a waiver of any breach or default of these Better Moves Terms constitute a waiver of any subsequent breach or default or a waiver of the provision itself. All rights and remedies hereunder are cumulative.

9. Governing Law.

These Better Moves Terms shall be governed by the laws of the United States of America and of the State of Georgia (US), and the Parties expressly acknowledge and agree that all disputes will be brought solely in the courts of Clarke County, Georgia, which shall have the sole and exclusive jurisdiction over the same.

10. Entire Agreement.

These Better Moves Terms, together with the General Terms, our Privacy Policy and the Waiver and Release of Liability, contain the entire agreement and supersede all prior and contemporaneous understandings between the Parties regarding the matters described herein.