Have an out of state move on the horizon? When you’re looking at a move of any size or scope, it’s important to make sure you’ve planned and organized your household prior, but this is even more important when it comes to more long distance moves. Handling an out of state move isn’t a necessarily simple process, but if you’re organized and start planning ahead early, you’ll be set up for success.
Regardless of whether you’ve hired a professional full service moving company, a rental truck for a self move, or if you’re just moving what you can in your own vehicle, the most important part of an out of state move is properly planning the process. If you’ve moved before, you’ll know the importance of keeping your items organized, labelled, and grouped in a way that streamlines your process, but this is even more important when dealing with an out of state relocation. For 10 tips to make sure your move is successful, read below.
1. Picking Movers
Choose a mover that is open, honest, and that is experienced with long distance or out of state moves. Beware of scams and make sure you’re getting the best prices!
2. Stick to a Budget
Don’t spend more than you’re comfortable with on any aspect of your move by creating a moving budget to keep track of expenses, and stick to it!
3. Take Inventory
Go through your items and take stock of what you have and what condition everything is in. If you don’t need, want, or use it, get rid of it!
4. Clear Out Unneeded Items
Once you’ve taken your inventory, donate, give away, sell, or throw away unwanted or unused items.
5. Organize Your Things
After you’ve finished decluttering, organize your remaining items to get them ready for the packing process. Keep like with like and take things room by room to make packing easier.
6. Obtain Packing Materials
You can get usually packing materials from any moving or rental truck company, or can ask around for boxes to reuse for your moving process.
7. Start the Packing Process
Start packing items room by room and keep everything properly labelled and organized to make sure fragile items don’t get mixed in with heavier things that can break.
8. Keep Your Addresses Current
Update your address with any credit card companies, banks, or other institutions that need your current information on hand, especially places like the post office!
9. Transfer Your Utility Information
Put any utilities at your new home in your name, and make sure to take any utilities at your old address out of your name to avoid overpaying on your bills.
10. Get Ready!
Now that you’ve gotten all of that out of the way, you can focus on getting yourself together and packing up any items you’re keeping with you on your journey. Good luck!
If your move is just to the next state over or from one side of the country to another, no out of state move is done well without planning ahead of time or practicing organization. This isn’t a process that can be done well without planning well ahead and making sure everything is in order before moving day. However, if you’re staying organized and not waiting until the last minute, you’re setting yourself up for a successful and simply moving process out of state.
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Every employee I worked with was courteous, professional, and exceedingly competent. I was nervous about the packing and long distance move (from Illinois to New Mexico, October 2009) and Hollander helped make the move as smooth as possible. Not a thing was damaged or broken
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I would recommend Hollander to any company thinking about switching vendors, and any family making a move. A Hollander rep even stopped by my new place when they were unloading just to check on things.
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Everything Hollander has done was over the top. It was courteous people, polite, caring. Their friendliness was over the top. There was one member of the crew who’d been a friend for 30 years, and the rest was family. I couldn’t say enough about them.
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I recently moved from Chicago to Tampa and expected a few road bumps along the way but was pleasantly surprised when everything from loading to delivery was flawless. Everyone I came in contact with was very professional and knowledgable. I highly recommend Hollander Moving and Storage as they are a class act.
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This move envolved packing and delivery to four different destinations. Attention to detail and coordination were vital and effectively executed by Tony R driver and his crew. Ardene did a great job coordinating everything. The entire group were both extremely pleasant and efficient.
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