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Moving Tip: Budgeting for Your Relocation Move

December 1, 2011 By

Budgeting for Your Relocation Move

Are you planning a relocation in the near future?  If so, you will want to start by preparing a relocation budget.

No matter where you are moving to, you will want to be sure to select a moving and storage company that listens to your needs and works with you to stay within your relocation budget.  You will want to meet face-to-face with your Relocation Consultant so that they can actually see what items are being moved, what your packing requirements are, and if you have any special attention items.  The last thing you need are surprises and added costs on moving day!   Tell your Relocation Consultant how much of the work you want to do yourself.  This will allow the moving company to prepare an accurate estimate of the moving costs, and even offer suggestions on additional ways you can save money.

If your move is just across town and your relocation budget is tight, ask your Relocation Consultant for suggestions on ways you can best prepare your home for the movers on moving day.  The little things can save time and money.

  • Unplug and wrap cords to all electrical items in the home.
  • Disassemble all beds and mirrors from dressers.
  • Our company provides wardrobe cartons for all hanging clothing.  We are happy to pack them for our customers, but many prefer to transfer their clothing themselves while we are moving the heavy items.
  • Move all open boxes that are not sealed, the smaller boxes, and plants in your vehicle.
  • If moving during the winter months, be sure to have all driveways and walkways shoveled and salted before the truck arrives.

If your relocation will be a long distance move, your budget will involve much more planning.  You need to be realistic of taking on too much of the work yourself.  For example, if you tell your moving company that you will be doing all of your own packing and do not get it done as planned, it could add hundreds of dollars to your relocation budget.  When moving out of state, the driver cannot come back the following day and finish what does not get done.  Drivers are assigned loads well in advance and do not usually have an extra day between loading, driving, and their scheduled deliveries.

The following are items that you may want to be sure not to overlook that can highly impact your relocation budget.  These are all costs that many individuals do not think of and include when establishing their relocation budget.

  • House hunting trips may require flying to your new location to look for a new home.  These trips can be expensive and may require car rental costs and overnight stays at a motel.  Be sure to include all out-of-town expenses in your budget (meals, airport parking, kennels for your pets, etc.)
  • Non-perishable foods, which includes everything in your refrigerator and freezer, will need to be replaced.  This can costs several hundreds of dollars.
  • Did you leave your appliances at your old residence?  Buying $5,000 worth of new appliances in a state that has a 2% higher sales tax will cost you an additional $100 on your purchase.
  • Transporting your extra vehicle to your new home can add hundreds of dollars to your relocation budget.  The average car carrier price to transport a vehicle from Detroit to Los Angeles is $1,000.  Even if you plan to drive the vehicle yourself, be sure to budget for extra gas along the way.

Call the moving professionals at Preferred Moving & Storage to discuss your relocation needs.  We are known for taking the time to sit down with our customers and listening to your needs.  Our Relocation Consultants are dedicated to helping our customers establish and stay within their relocation budgets.

Preferred Moving and Storage is a reputable, Macomb County mover that is located in Harrison Township, Michigan.  We have been providing families with professional moving services for over 28 years.  We can be reached at (800) 837-4600 or on-line at www.preferredmoving.net.

About the Author

Henry Cadle is the President of Preferred Moving & Storage located in Harrison Township, Michigan.  Henry has over 36 years experience in the moving and storage industry.  He is known in the southeastern Michigan region for providing customers with quality, reputable moving service at an affordable price.  You can contact Henry Cadle at (800) 837-4600 or visit Preferred Moving & Storage’s website at www.preferredmoving.net.

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Moving Tip: Separate and Inventory Your Items

November 15, 2011 By

Hi, Shawn Cook with Preferred Moving and Storage, agent for Wheaton Van Lines. We’re located in Harrison Township, Michigan (Macomb County).

Today, we are in the home of a customer of ours in Oakland Township, Michigan (Oakland County). We are moving them from West Bloomfield, Michigan, to our storage facility in Harrison Township, Michigan. Today, I’m here with Michael, a driver of ours, one of our top drivers. And he is doing the inventory process, which is one of the initial processes in the move. What he is doing when he inventories is separating items that may go to different directions. For instance, the customer has a move point to Illinois, and one going to Virginia. Items are going to be inventoried separately with different colored tags. This is detrimental, because we want to make sure that we are itemizing everything that is going on our truck. So when it is delivered, it will also be itemized and checked in as it comes off the truck. Again, a very important process. Each box or piece of furniture, is stickered, inventoried and itemized accordingly.

If you are considering a local move, long distance move or an international move, consider Preferred Moving and Storage.   Visit our website at www.preferredmoving.net or give us a call at 800-837-4600.

 

 

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Moving Tips – Rug Runners and Carpet Shield Protect Your Floors When Moving

November 11, 2011 By


Hi, Shawn Cook, Preferred moving and storage, agent for Wheaton Van Lines. We’re in one of my customer’s homes in Bloomfield, Michigan (Oakland County). What we have going on today is very detrimental. You always want to lay floor protection. What it does is creates pathways for our movers to work. It cuts down on traffic on the remainder of the homes  flooring. So, what Don is doing is laying down our rug runners. Again, creating pathways. Coming in from the front door to the bedroom, to the kitchen. It’s very detrimental in keeping less traffic throughout  the home. It’s going to be more ideal for anybody in a situation where they’re moving. So if you would come over here with me. For carpets, for colored carpets, you don’t want traction on these things. They’re not supposed to move, when any homeowner’s moving in. So we want to keep the traction down as much as possible.

Jason is laying what we call a carpet shield. It’s a very nice shield. You’ll see it in model homes, brand new homes. They put them down when they show the homes.  They utilize this and so do we as well. So, a good process…it shows the homeowners that we do care about their home and their items. And we’ll do whatever it takes to make their move successful.

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Items Not To Pack When Moving- Preferred Moving and Storage

October 15, 2011 By

Hi. Welcome to Preferred Moving and Storage, an agent for Wheaton Van Lines. My name is Shawn Cook. I’m a relocation consultant here. We are located at 42950 Executive Drive, Harrison Township, Michigan.

You can contact us at our phone number 1(800)-837-4600. Or visit our website at www.preferredmoving.net

Today I’d like to take a moment and talk to you of ways of being pro active when you’re packing your household goods. Our professionals come in to pack and they are trained to look for items that are harmful or illegal to transport. But today, I want to take a moment and share with you a list of items that you need to be on the look for.

Starting out, when packing yourself, you’re going to be on the lookout for aerosol cans. These items are combustible- heating agents, nail polish and nail polish remover. For you ladies, those are items of high needs and necessity. So you want it, you want to separate those. You can take those yourself, remember that.

Fire extinguishers or gas in bottles would include propane tanks or oxygen.

Any ammonia, bleaches, household cleaning agents. So when you’re under that sink you need to make sure that you’re looking out for things that might be, flammable. Again, bleaches. They will eat up anything they come in contact with.

Obviously it would be acid we cannot transport. Lighter fluid, matches, lighters, things of that nature.

Any other combustibles that you can think of.  Now those are just a small list of items that you really need to be on the look out for to know that these are items we cannot transport. In addition to this list we have a small list of items that you should really consider taking up on yourself or taking yourself when you move. Items like perishable foods, plants that are just sentimentally very important to you. We will transport them, but we do not guarantee them. Prescription medications, that’s for obvious reasons, for health or medical problems.

Items of monetary value.  We will take all of these items but again, we feel more comfortable with this being with you such as: insurance policies, money, and other important documents.

So just to kind of touch base on those, again we went over a list of items we can’t pack, would be anything flammable, combustible, or anything of high flammability. And then things you should take with yourself would be things of monetary value, medical records, health records, and again, your medications. Visit us at www.preferredmoving.net, or give us a call. Call me, Sean Cook, relocation consultant here at Preferred Moving: 1(800)-873-4600.

Thank you.

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Summer Moving with Preferred Moving and Storage- Macomb County Michigan

October 10, 2011 By

Hi, my name is Henry Cadle with Preferred Moving and Storage. We’re located in Harrison Township, Michigan. If you’re anticipating a move this summer, please be advised that most moving companies have just come off their busiest month of the year, including us. June has been a record setting month for us and we are currently still under booking restrictions through June, July 9th. However, if you are anticipating a move, you can never start early enough. Ideal situation would be 30 days ahead. If you don’t have that call us as soon as possible.

We can offer tips on things that might save you money, might make your job a little easier, keep you within budget, offer you some tips on tax saving, things of that nature. But whatever you are anticipating please contact us right away. We can’t stress the tidiness of the business. In the summer time we do 60% of the people move interstate. Local moving is also heaviest in the summer months.

Summer months, primarily when school is out. Around here, around June 10th, June 15th area. And we are just booked solid through the 4th of July. And then we get a little breather. And then, of course, we stay busy well into after Labor Day. So if you’re thinking of moving, please give us a call as soon as possible. We will set up an in-home survey for you at no cost, no obligation. We will design a budget for you, and then we will work with you to make sure that we stay within that budget. Make your job as easy as we can if you’re gonna do your own packing.

We can provide packing at an additional charge but if you prefer to do it yourself it is our job to work with you to make sure you stay within budget and on time and answer questions you might have we can be reached at 1 (800) 837 4600 or on our website at www.preferredmoving.net once again we are located Harrison Township, Michigan, that is in Macomb county.

Thank you.

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Moving Tips for Your Michigan Local or Interstate Move

July 6, 2011 By


Hi, my name is Sean Cook. I’m a relocation consultant here at Preferred Moving and Storage located in Harrison Township in Macomb County, Michigan.  We are an agent for Wheaton Van Lines. Today I want to take a moment and just give you some quick tips and pointers on your near or upcoming future move.Add New

When you’re about 4 weeks out, we recommend that you get packing supplies. Something that here at Preferred we do supply free packing material or we sell you packing material, depending on what your needs may be.  Secondly, in the week fourth week out, we want you to confirm a date of your move. And again just by calling myself here at Preferred Moving and Storage, you can do that.

Three  weeks out we want you to consider starting your packing. Whether it be from your book cartoons. Your medium cartons, your four cartons. You, need to start putting together rooms. Getting things labeled. Getting things packed. And then also we, we recommend that you make your notifications. Your change of your address. Notify your utility companies. And that’ll kind of take care of your third week. Again make sure you’re labeling your packing material, or your packing boxes  by room, and what contents may be in that box. It’s very helpful for you.

Two weeks out, we want you to look at maybe finalizing the closing, notifying banks. Because banks here in Michigan are going to be maybe different than the place you are moving to. So that’s something to also take into consideration. And then another key component in your second week is calling Preferred Moving & Storage. Call myself, Sean Cook. We are again here in Harrison Township, Michigan in Macomb County. Give us a call. We’re going to get you a liability option. Whether you’re gonna go for a local $.50 per pound or a declared amount of value for your full replacement protection. Long distance move you’re going to do a $.60 per pound, which is a free standard industry charge or you’re going to place a declared value again for a full replacement protection value. Again you can notify me at Preferred Moving and Storage, Harrison Township, Michigan.

Final week we prefer you finish up your packing. Reconfirm your closing details, as well as your moving date with us. And the day of your move, make sure that you do a thorough walk through when the move is, new move process is completed. We want to make sure that nothing’s being left behind. No items might be forgotten. Again if they were, Preferred to take care of that but also have payment ready payment options are cash, check, certified funds, or Visa and MasterCard.

For more tips or to schedule a move call Preferred Moving and Storage at 586 463 4230 toll free 800 837 4600 or visit our website www.preferredmoving.net thank you.

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