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About Ethan Greenfield

Ethan is a relocation professional and an ex-moving coordinator. He has experience in handling relocations from start to finish with the consumer in mind.
Now, Ethan is dedicated to sharing his knowledge with as many people as possible in order to help them have a better moving experience.
Ethan Greenfield's work has been featured in established industry organizations like Move for Hunger (Non profit organization) and The American Moving and Storage Association.
His work has also been featured in mainstream medias like Zillow, BuzzFeed and others.

You can contact Ethan directly at [email protected]

Ethan Greenfield's posts:

Is it worth shipping furniture overseas?

November 7, 2019 Ethan Greenfield
Shipping furniture overseas isn't cheap.

It is commonly assumed that when you move to a new place, you start a new life. This is especially true when moving abroad – you go to a new country where anything and everything is new and a new world opens before you. However exciting the newness may be though, you may want to

How to lift boxes correctly when moving house

November 5, 2019 Ethan Greenfield
How to lift boxes correctly

For better or worse (understand worse), heavy lifting will always remain an inseparable part of the house moving process. The thing is that even if you’ve made up your mind NOT to move any heavyweight furniture pieces and household appliances to the new home, you’re still going to have to lift heavy boxes (correctly!) and

How to use furniture sliders to move furniture and appliances

October 31, 2019January 11, 2021 Ethan Greenfield
How to use furniture sliders to move furniture

The best thing about hiring full-service movers is that they will take care of everything for you, including packing up your possessions in a safe manner and moving large and heavy furniture pieces and household appliances without any risk of damage to the heavy objects or to the floors, walls, or doorways of the place

What to sell before moving (and why)?

October 29, 2019 Ethan Greenfield
Find out what to sell before moving to make your move cheaper and pocket some extra cash.

Moving to a new place is often seen as an opportunity to start afresh and build a better life for yourself. One good way to do so is to let go of everything that’s weighing you down – groundless anxieties, unhappy memories, painful self-doubts, useless junk, etc. – and start on a clean slate in

Is it better to move before or after a baby is born?

October 24, 2019 Ethan Greenfield
Should you move before or after a baby is born?

When a baby is on the way, it’s common to start considering moving to a new home – a cozy place that will be spacious enough and comfortable enough to meet the growing needs of the growing family. The big question, however, is whether to move before or after the baby is born. Moving is

How to pack board games for moving

October 22, 2019 Ethan Greenfield
How to pack board games for moving

Board games are omnipresent. Therefore, it’s fairly safe to say that there’s hardly a household without a few board games stacked up somewhere regardless of whether there are any young children in the house or not. And when you yourself are getting ready to move out, sooner or later you’ll get to your own collection

How long does it take to move cross country?

October 17, 2019 Ethan Greenfield
Find out how long it takes to move cross country.

No matter how you look at it, moving is extremely time-consuming – you need a few months to prepare for your relocation (planning your move, sorting out and purging your belongings, finding reliable movers, collecting and updating documents, packing your items, organizing a safe and efficient moving day, etc.) and then a few more months

10 items you should pack yourself (without hiring packers)

October 15, 2019 Ethan Greenfield
Items you should pack by yourself

When you’re getting ready to move out, it’s important to keep in mind that some of your items will require special packing to survive the upcoming move, especially when it’s a long-distance one. In other words, you’ll be better off leaving the things that are really fragile, really heavy, and really big to be packed

What to do when you regret moving

October 10, 2019 Ethan Greenfield
What to do when you regret moving

Even though it looked like the right choice at the time, sometimes moving house can turn out to be a rather miserable experience. You move to a new city, you move into a new home and sadly enough, you’re not feeling the way you thought you would. After a quick fantasy-meets-reality clash, everything in the

How to recognize a lowball estimate from movers

October 8, 2019 Ethan Greenfield
A lowball estimate may result in a nightmare moving experience.

Moving is quite an expensive affair, so when planning a relocation, you will certainly be looking for efficient ways to cut down the moving costs. And since cheap movers provide a great chance to save on your move, you will probably be hunting for affordable moving services. So, when you get estimates from several moving

Can you hire movers to move one item? Find single item movers.

October 3, 2019 Ethan Greenfield
Single item movers will deliver your tresured article intact and unscathed.

Every moving scenario is unique and every relocation case has its own specific requirements. Moving across the ocean is very different from moving across town and moving a 4-bedroom house is quite unlike moving a studio apartment – you will need different kinds of moving services and even different types of moving companies for each

5 simple tricks to help you stay focused while packing

October 1, 2019October 1, 2019 Ethan Greenfield

There’s no doubt that when moving out, packing is the most important task you’ll need to take care of before Moving day knocks on your door. All of your personal items will have to be adequately protected and properly packed up to survive the haul between the two homes. Choosing not to pay for professional

10 Signs you’re hiring the right movers

September 25, 2019April 19, 2022 Ethan Greenfield
How to know you hired the right movers

When moving from one home to another, it’s really important that you find reliable movers whom you can entrust with your prized possessions. Regardless of the move distance – moving just across town or moving thousands of miles across the country, you just need to know that the professionals you hire will do a good

How to move into a building with no elevator

September 17, 2019 Ethan Greenfield
How to move into a walk-up apartment

When moving into a high-rise building, chances are there will be an elevator to help you move up your furniture and boxes. However, sometimes that isn’t the case and you may have to move to a higher floor in an apartment building that has no elevator. It’s largely irrelevant whether the building has never had

How to pack spices for moving

September 12, 2019 Ethan Greenfield
Make sure you know how to pack spices for moving the right way.

There is no doubt that packing is the most laborious, time-consuming, and challenging task to complete when preparing for a house move. There is also no doubt that the kitchen is the hardest room to pack in a home – not only is it full of breakables and oddly-shaped pieces, but the mere number of

How to move without furniture

September 10, 2019 Ethan Greenfield
How to move without furniture

A successful house move always comes as a direct result of making all the right decisions when it matters the most. Of course, some move-related decisions will always be more critical than others – for example, your choice NOT to sort out your shoes before packing them cannot possibly affect the household move the same

Open vs enclosed auto transport: what you need to know when shipping your car across country

September 4, 2019 Ethan Greenfield
Open vs enclosed auto transport - how to choose the best car shipping method for your vehicle.

Planning a move across the country can be a real logistical nightmare – there are so many schedules to make, details to take care of, and things to coordinate that your organizational skills will be put to the ultimate test. And even when you’ve found a reliable moving company to transport your belongings, booked your

How to pack to save space when moving

August 28, 2019August 28, 2019 Ethan Greenfield
How to pack to save space

When packing for a move, one of your major concerns will be the time it’ll take you to wrap up your items for safe transportation and box them properly into suitable moving boxes. Most of the time, TIME will be against you – especially when you take into account the fact that packing is the

How to pack curtains for moving

August 21, 2019 Ethan Greenfield
How to pack curtains when moving

One thing you may not realize amidst the whirlwind of move-related activities during your house move is that one of the very first things you’ll have to do when you step into your new home is to hang the curtains so that you can get your privacy. You don’t know your neighbors yet so until

Tips for a smooth dorm move-in day

August 14, 2019August 14, 2019 Ethan Greenfield
There are many steps you can take to make dorm move-in day smooth and successful.

As summer draws to an end, college move-in day approaches and anxiety starts to build up. It’s a big day – one that is eagerly anticipated and quite dreaded. College move-in tends to be a whirlwind of emotions – it brings a lot of excitement and pride, but also more than a little stress and

Top 10 reasons to move to Texas

August 7, 2019 Ethan Greenfield
10 reasons to move to Texas

Why is everyone moving to Texas? Seriously though, how many people you know have already moved to Texas? You’ve lost count, haven’t you? The Lone Star State has a lot to offer to anyone who’s decided to move there: a booming economy, an expanding job market, affordable housing, low cost of living, a rich culture,

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