Moving: Tips and Articles

Tips by Real-Estate-Agents.com

Articles and tips about moving. Make things a little easier next time you move.

Is It Time for New Appliances and Electronic Equipment?

Before you move, check the measurements and assess the condition of your appliances and electronic equipment. If they won't fit your new home, don't move them! Shop for new appliances to suit your new location.

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Moving Checklist

Here are some guidelines for preparing for your move.

Six weeks before you move ...

• Decide on your approximate move date.
• Weed out any items you will not need in your new location, or simply no longer want. Make arrangements to have a yard sale, or donate the items to charity.
• Start using up groceries and supplies.

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Plan Carefully For Your Move

Moving from one home to another is considered one of the most stressful things people do in their lives. To move everything you own -- much of it fragile and important to you -- from one place to another involves careful planning, organization, good equipment and tools, the right moving materials and a heap of plain common sense.

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Moving a Piano

Anybody who's ever tried to move a piano knows that it's a difficult job best left to professionals. Pianos are large and very heavy yet extremely fragile.

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Checklist: Change of Address Notifications

When you move, you can make life a bit easier if you have an organized list of the people or businesses who will need to know your new address.

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Hiring a Moving Service

Types of services: When you start shopping around for movers, you will need to let them know which services you desire so they can plan all aspects of the move.

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Rental Trucks

Trucks can be rented for do-it-yourself moving for local, in-town moves where the truck is picked up and returned to the same facility, and one-way moves, where it is picked up from one location and dropped off at another.

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Finding the Right Trailer

Trailers come in several different weight classes with maximum tow ratings. Some people still weld trailer hitches to the frame (which could possibly weaken the frame), companies that rent trailers also offer to rent or sell custom-fitted hitches that bolt to the frame and usually use pre-existing holes.

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