Moving Articles

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What To Do If You Have To Move In A Hurry - And Still Have A House To Sell
Sometimes circumstances arise that force you to leave your house before it's sold. But out of sight doesn't mean out of mind. Michele Dawson offers tips on selling the house you've left behind.

Tips For Reducing Waste When You Move
With millions of us moving each year and the amount of household waste on the rise, it makes sense to try to keep waste to a minimum when it comes time to move. Michele Dawson offers some tips.

Make Safety Top Priority As Soon As You Move In
With the moving trucks coming and going and your first few days and weeks in your new home filled with chaos, it's important to make the safety of your family a priority by protecting against potential fires, carbon monoxide poisoning, and break-ins.

Pack It Up, Pack It In: Packing For A Smooth Move
If you're one of the millions who will be moving this summer, you know it can be a stressful time for the whole family. One of the things you don't want to worry about is your belongings remaining intact. Michele Dawson has the details.

Secrets to a Successful Move
Planning to move this summer? You're not alone -- summer is the busiest time of year for professional movers, according to the American Moving and Storage Association.

Industry Supports Tougher Rules For Movers
Growing numbers of moving company violations have prompted federal officials to put more muscle behind regulations and the industry doesn't want the feds to pull any punches. Broderick Perkins has the story.

Plan To Move Driven By Market And Lifestyle
These questions and concerns raise several good points about the home-buying process. It’s not all about money and the bottom line. The decision you have to make is also a lot about lifestyle.

Kids, Young Adults Want Moving Connections
For a smooth move, use technology to ease the process and stay connected before you move, on the road and when you arrive. Broderick Perkins has the details.

Tips For Avoiding Fraudulent Moving Companies
Is moving day drawing near? If so, allow yourself plenty of time to research and find a reputable moving company. Unfortunately, some movers take advantage of families, holding their goods hostage or trumping up charges. Michele Dawson explains.

How to Help Your Kids Adjust When You Move in the Middle of the School Year
Moving is hard enough for kids. But going to a new school in the middle of the school year is especially tough. Michele Dawson offers some tips to help your kids adjust.

Keeping Fido Safe During Family Move
The trip for you and your family is stressful enough, be sure to remember for the care of your pet to reduce its stress and the worries and concerns of other family members.

Preparing For Moving Day: A Checklist
Moving day doesn't have to be as stressful as you think. Michele Dawson offers some tips to keep you organized and help you ensure a smooth move.

Seven Tips For Successfully Transporting Your Computer
As you begin preparing for your move, you'll want to spend extra time readying and packing your computer. After all, it represents a good chunk of time and information - not to mention the monetary investment. Michele Dawson offers some tips.

Moving Day: What You Should Know if You're Hiring Movers
It seemed the day would never come, but now you're just weeks away from moving. Michele Dawson offers some advice on what you should know if you're considering hiring movers.

How To Hold A Successful Garage Sale
Moving into a new home can be great motivation for turning trash into cash. Carol Ochs looks at garage sales and how to do them right.

Moving Tips Ease Your Pain
Most of us move within the same county or not more than 10 miles from our present home when we relocate. But some of us move much further, and there are several tips that can ease the effort of a long-distance haul. M. Anthony Carr explains.

How To Simplify Your Move
Moving is a big event. It's tiring, complex, and costly. Alan Heavens explores the lessons of a recent relocation and explains how to move with less stress.

How To Prepare Your Kids for Moving Day
You think moving is a source of stress for you? What about children whose whole world is about to turn upside down? Michele Dawson offers tips to make the transition as easy as possible.

When Borrowing Is A Moving Experience
It's not uncommon for people to move across state borders to find new jobs. Does moving complicate the borrowing process? You bet. David Reed explains how to get financing when moving to a new community.

Packing Hard-To-Move Items
Should you let movers transport valued items -- possessions important to you? Courtney Ronan looks at the pros and cons, and offers suggestions before your plan the big move.

Online Calculators: Moving By The Numbers
If you're planning a move across town or across the country, Internet calculators can estimate your costs. But as Julie Garton-Good reports, there's still a lot of value in the old-fashioned company rep who comes to your door.

Starting Right In A New Community
Moving is never easy, and getting comfortable in new surroundings can be tough. But forget your worries as Courtney Ronan offers a seven-day plan to get acquainted with your new community.

Storage Units: When Enough Isn't Enough
If your volume of possessions is outrunning the space available, it may be time to consider a temporary storage facility. Courtney Ronan reports that today's storage facilities are locked, heated, air conditioned and available when closets and basements overflow.

How Much Moving Insurance Is Enough?
How much "insurance" do you need when moving? Probably a lot more than you can get with "free" coverage reports Courtney Ronan, who explains that there are four basic types of plans.

Should You Hire Pros For Short-Distance Moves?
If you're moving long-distance than professionals and big trucks are a must. But what about a move across town? Courtney Ronan says sometimes you're best off doing it yourself with a little help from your friends.

Don't Forget The 'Little People" When Moving To A New Home
It's easy to speak of the trauma and the guarded excitement of moving from our adult perspective. But what about the little people - those pint-sized varieties we once looked like?

An Educational but 'Moving' Experience
Even though it can be for all the happiest reasons, moving is still considered by many to be one of the most stressful events in life, just behind divorce and the loss of a loved one.

Before You Move Checklist
If you are facing a move, what you really need are step-by-step tips that will help you chip away at the daunting task of packing, moving and settling in.

Before You Unpack: Your Responsibilities as a Homeowner - October 11, 2000
Before you go kick off your shoes and shrug off unpacking until later, however, keep in mind that there are a few responsibilities you'll need to tackle right away upon your arrival.

Movers' Estimates: Can You Trust Them?
Your best recourse is to find yourself a moving company who makes house calls. Have a representative pay a visit to your existing residence and survey just how much you have to move. Then, and only then, is a realistic estimate possible.

Hiring a Moving Company: Don't Get Taken For a Ride
When it comes time to hire a moving company, you've got to be prepared to become a sleuth, an undercover agent, so to speak. Arm yourself with questions, and interview your prospects before you leap upon a "great deal."

Moving? Follow these Cleaning Tips
In order to get your security deposit back, you'll need to leave your rental unit in good condition. You'll also want to straighten up your new place before unpacking your things. Here are a few tips to help you clean up.

Packing Tips
I recently moved from an old apartment into a beautiful town home. Just like any move, this one wasn't very exciting. No matter how many times I do it, there are always an infinite number of sentences beginning with "I wish I'd...." or "It would've helped so much if we'd...." This move I took note of things.

Moving Day Etiquette
Moving day stinks. There's no two ways about it. You've spent hours packing up and preparing for the arrival of your movers. Then you hold your breath as they begin the arduous process of transporting all of your worldly possessions from one place to another.

Neighborhood Red Flags: How to Decide if It's Right for You
Taking into consideration all of these indicators will help you make the most informed choice possible about whether a neighborhood is the right choice for you and your family.

Avoiding Post-Move Pitfalls: What to Tackle First
When you're moving, you're so busy during the period leading up to the move that you're likely to give no thought to what needs to be done just as soon as the boxes hit the floor in your new home.

Now Where Are Those Dishes? How to Survive Unpacking
As the old saying goes, Rome wasn't built in a day. And neither should your palace. Take your time, save your sanity, and loosen your standards of neatness when unpacking after a move.

After the Move: Acclimating to Your New Neighborhood
Whether you're moving across the country or to a suburb 30 minutes away, you'll go through an adjustment period following your move. One of the most anxiety-inducing aspects of moving is the sense that we've lost control.

Four Questions Help Determine "Improve vs. Move"
The walls are closing in. Your teenagers are warring over closet space and you long to have a real office room instead of camping out at the kitchen table. What's the best solution? Should you improve the house or move to another?

It's Your Move
It's Your Move . . . and whether it takes you and your family across town or across the country it will go more smoothly if you take time to do some planning and, most importantly, take time out for yourself.

Beating Sellers' Stress
Moving is an emotional process. If your'e not calming down your nervous children, you're trying to reassure yourself that you'll meet people in your new neighborhood, that you bought the best house within your means, and that your kids' new schools will measure up.

Avoid The Sticker Shock Of Relocating
To avoid the sticker shock of relocating, moving Americans can use the results of movecentral.com's annual moving survey to plan their spending. The new survey finds that movers spend $9,400 on purchases during the three-month relocation period, while renters spend $3,700.

Overseas Relocation: How to Prepare
Because moving overseas often means a journey into the unknown, it tends to overwhelm relocating individuals and families. Not knowing what questions to ask only compounds the stress they feel.

Redirecting Your Mail When You Move
Have you recently moved into a new apartment? Wonder why your mailbox is always empty? mMke sure you don't forget to notify everyone about your change of address.

Packing Properly: How To Move And Keep Your Valuables Intact
To avoid accessory-break and heartbreak, follow these simple guidelines and you will save an enormous amount of time, money, and grief after your arrival in your new home.

Choosing Your Next Hometown
Your mind is made up. So you put your house on the market, pack up your life and head to Perfect Town, USA ... only to find several months later that life in Perfect Town isn't quite as idyllic as you thought.

How to Alleviate Stress in a New Environment
Moving to a new location is incredibly stressful and can be depressing. There are endless hours of unpacking and redecorating, and on top of that, you have to readjust to your new environment. Whether you're moving across town, or to the other side of the world, getting used to a new place can be grueling.

How to Make Sure Your Plants Survive the Move
If you have house plants, and you're moving to a new location, you have three options: donate 'em, dump 'em, or dare to take 'em with you. The following is some great advice for those who can't bear to leave their precious plants behind:

Moving In Early
Every situation is a bit different, and sometimes it is necessary for the buyers to move in before closing. Brokers, and real estate lawyers, advise as strongly as they can against allowing that. Too many things can go wrong.

Deductible Moving Expenses
Yes, Uncle Sam stands ready to help soften the expense of your job - related move. No, he isn't quite as generous about it as he used to be.You may be eligible to deduct some moving expenses if:

Cost of Living Analyses
If you've ever moved from the Midwest or the South to either coast, you realize just how different the costs of day-to-day living can vary among various U.S. cities. No matter how prepared you think you are, you are in for sticker shock.

20 Million Americans Will Move In Next Three Months
The Mayflower Transit company has issued its annual report on "America on the Move," noting that some 43 million Americans will relocate this year -- about one-sixth of the total U.S. population.

When is the Best Time to Move Your Children?
While helping children find good schools is an important part of the relocation process, the last-minute nature of many transfers makes it difficult to analyze the emotional needs of children in the event of a transfer.

The Best Cities for Young People
Our society is more nomadic than it ever has been. Corporate relocations, start up opportunities, the disintegration of the family, and urban renewal are all contributing factors to the relocation of over 17% of the U.S. population annually.

Should We Add On Or Move?
What do you do, if your present home has become too small, but you're fond of the neighbors, your kids like the school, and you're particularly attached to your back yard?

What Makes People Move?
The number one reason people gave for leaving their present home was too little space (45.8%). Dangerous neighborhoods or noise prompted another 29.2% to leave, and 29.2% others blamed a long work commute for their desire to move.

Moving Your Pet: It's a Jungle Out There
Last week, Real Times passed along valuable tips for making the moving experience less stressful for your pets. Depending on whether your faithful companion is a dog, cat, hamster, bird or something else, you'll need to take special precautions to ensure their comfort durning the move.

Moving Your Pet
Getting through the emotional stress of moving is difficult enough for adults and children. How do you move your pet and keep the strain to an absolute minimum -- both to yourself and your beloved pet?

One-Stop Resource Solves Moving Hassles
You've just received the news that you're being transferred to another branch office in another state ... in two weeks. You hardly have the time to consider who you need to contact about your forthcoming change of address, until now.

Mapquest: An Online Introduction to Your New Hometown
Instead of booking yourself an expensive plane ticket or packing your car and embarking on a long drive to explore your new hometown ahead of time, save yourself the time and money, and check out MapQuest.

Need Money for Moving Expenses? Look In Your Garage!
Selling your home often means getting rid of a ton of stuff that you have accumulated over the years. What better way to do this, make money, and have fun in the bargain than by holding a garage sale?

Pack and Move Your Computer with Tips from U-Haul
U-Haul has been dedicated to serving the needs of do-it-yourself movers since 1945. The moving industry giant has prepared a host of helpful hints for the estimated 9 million American computer owners U-Haul believes will move to a new home this summer.

Settling In: Pre-Move Pointers for Taking Stock
Despite all of the hassle moving represents, when the dust has cleared, most of us have to admit that it's a liberating experience. It forces us to rid ourselves of the clutter accumulated in the house we're leaving and represents an opportunity to start over.

Preparing Your Child to Move
Children respond to the general atmosphere set in the home by the attitudes of their parents. If you look at moving as an exciting adventure full of new possibilities, then chances are very good that you will infect your children with enthusiasm and anticipation.

Choosing a Mover
Relocation can be one of the most exciting endeavors you may experience in life. The challenge of pioneering your family to a new home, community, and job opportunity can be full of rewards if you take the time to make the moving process easier.