By all means, take the machine with you. I have been moved by professional movers many times. My experiences were good except for one. When we moved from Ohio to North Carolina, my husband's company used Bekins. They were shady. They lost thousands of dollars of our stuff. Although our things were insured, the amount that they were willing to reimburse us was a joke. They dragged everything out for a very long time and denied most of our claim. They set up an appointment to come to our house and fill out paperwork for our claim. They rescheduled the appointment several times over a couple of months and after they finally came out, they told us that they had lost our paperwork and that they needed to set up another appointment. Anyway, it was a nightmare dealing with them. Don't let the movers take your machine.