Blog: Moving Tips

Everyone knows that moving can be an incredibly stressful experience no matter how many times you've done it.

You can tell a lot about someone by looking at their possessions. While we all have things like clothes, dishes, shelves, and tables, it's the optional items that are really the best sign of someone's personality and they often the most difficult to move.

For some people, moving is an incredibly personal experience in which you lay your hands on every item you own and carefully wrap it up so it will make the trip to a new home. For others, it's an incredibly impersonal experience involving a simple matter of moving stuff from one place to the next.

If you've ever moved, you know it's a lot of hard work and can be overwhelming. Even moving across town or down the street can be stressful for most people.

Moving is a big project, and part of what can make it seem overwhelming is the cost. No one wants to start the process without understanding how much you'll have to pay, but there is no one-price-fits-all when it comes to moving.

Unfortunately, when people move, they don’t always understand everything involved in the cost and that one of most crucial steps in the relocation process is securing a moving estimate.

Moving is no fun, especially when you're moving across the country to a new city where you know no one. Finding your way to the new job, finding the closest grocery, doctor, schools, churches, bank, dry cleaner and the post office is first on your list of things to do in the new city.

When choosing a mover, one of your primary concerns is: Will they damage my stuff. Even the best movers have accidents - a box slipping out of somebody's hands all the way to the truck being involved in an accident. Good movers will do their best to avoid these situations, but they can still happen.

When moving to a new house, many people hesitate to let movers do the packing because they think they can save money by doing their own packing. However, they don’t realize that a full service packing service can actually save them money in the long run.

When the economy is poor, people tend to stay in the jobs they have and not leave them voluntarily. During an economic boom, however, people are more likely to change jobs - and thus more likely to relocate.