Bonus Moving Tips

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These carefully selected ingenious bonus tips and tricks will help you accomplish more in less time, or in other words help you play a more efficient role in your own moving adventure.

What is a Bill of Lading?

Moving involves a lot of paperwork – moving estimates, moving contracts, moving inventory sheets, etc. – and paperwork tends to be confusing, overwhelming, and boring. Yet, it’s extremely important as it sets the conditions of your move and outlines both yours and your movers’ rights and responsibilities, eliminating misunderstandings and unpleasant surprises during the relocation

How to stay in the same school after moving

Moving house comes with a large set of challenges – organizing the complicated relocation process, dealing with laborious moving tasks, paying high moving costs, leaving your comfort zone behind, parting with loved ones, adjusting to a new environment, fitting in a new community, building new relationships, etc. And if you have school-aged children, changing schools

Pros and cons of moving house often

Like everything in life, the house moving process also has its share of advantages and disadvantages. Yes, moving to a new city is expensive (maybe not as expensive as you think) but it does give you plenty of brand-new opportunities (maybe not as many as you hope). If you happen to be moving house frequently,

How to protect walls when moving

Anything can happen during a chaotic house move – one moment everything may be going fine and then, BOOM! – property damage appears out of the blue – suddenly and without any warning too. How did THAT happen? Remember that floor damage – scratches, scrapes, dents, broken tiles, etc. – is the most frequent type

How to protect your back when moving house

It’s important to bear in mind that the process of moving from one home to another can be dangerous, especially when it involves, as it often does, the need for lifting and carrying heavy furniture out of the home and many times – down or up the stairs too. Unfortunately, personal injuries are never out

What to bring to a new home for good luck

Whether you’re superstitious or not, a little extra luck is always welcome – especially so in regard to stressful, difficult, and overwhelming endeavors, such as residential moves. After all, who wouldn’t want to have a safe and smooth relocation and bring good fortune to their new lives? In fact, moving is such an important and

Local tips for moving furniture short distance

Moving short distance may be cheaper and easier than moving across the country, but it’s still quite an arduous endeavor – especially if you’re moving a large household and have lots of bulky items to relocate. And it will probably be your furniture – one of the largest and heaviest items in a home –

Moving because of bad neighbors

It can be the opposite of fun to have bad neighbors. Oftentimes, the unfortunate event can come about suddenly, and without any due warning too. In fact, it may happen to anyone and it’s not necessarily related to how good or bad a specific neighborhood is. You just moved to a new neighborhood in a

How much does it cost to move a couch?

Whether you realize it or not, your couch is one of the biggest items in your home. Depending on the exact model and purpose, couches can be really heavy and really big to move around the room, let alone to move to another house altogether. During a house move, a couch can become a tough

The Better Business Bureau and BBB-accredited movers

When you’re looking to hire a moving company to help you pack and move your household items to another home, it’s difficult to know which company you can trust with your valuable possessions. And unless you have good reasons to believe otherwise, oftentimes, you will most likely be genuinely worried that the moving company you