Moving Tips – How To Reduce Moving Costs?

When you move with full service moving companies try to book your move with a moving company early as you can. Booking a move before march or after august will reduce moving costs up to 30% – 50%.

When renting a moving truck and moving by your self try to book round-trip truck from truck rental companies instead of one-way truck rental. Truck rental companies offer special deals on round-trip moving truck rentals and you can save up to 15% – 30%. Ask friends or family members to come with you for a trip and then return the truck with them.

Most of the people want to move during the weekend. Moving during week days instead of the weekend will save you about 10% – 15%.

Put free ads on web sites or find people from the street that will help to load or unload your moving truck if you need some help. Professional movers that work for a moving company will cost you more. Just make sure that you are getting good people to help you and explain them exactly what to do and how you want them to do that.

Try to find used moving and packing supplies they will cost less than buying new packing supplies.

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Very good source to find moving companies and to get free moving quotes from movers is the web site Movinguide.com . The web site established in 2004 and helping many people every day to find good movers in their area for their up-coming move. To visit this web site simply click this link Moving Companies.

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How to choose a local moving company?

Try to see what would you need from the movers to do. Are you going to need the movers to pack some items for you or everything is going to be ready for them to move?

If you think that you will need the moving companies to pack your household goods before they can move them, ask the moving companies for total moving cost that includes packing materials and packaging services.

After getting few moving estimates for your local move from local moving companies in your area look which one is giving you the best moving estimate and also have a good reputation.

Note: When you moving locally the moving rate is per hour for one, two, three or more movers including the truck. In case that you need packing make sure that the price per hour will also include packing.

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Ask for flat rate moving estimate for your household move. Flat rate moving estimate will guarantee that you will not exceed your moving budget. With non binding moving estimates or binding moving estimates you can never know how much your closing moving bill will be.

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Be careful from low ball moving estimates. There are some moving companies that are giving low moving estimates. Avoid those moving companies that send you low moving estimates they are low-balling moving companies that will cost you in 95% of the time more than their competitors at the end of your household goods, car or international move.

There is a small chance that the low moving estimate that a mover send you will be the real cost of your move in few cases: 

Straight Delivery: The mover will load everything straight to a moving tractor trailer or a small moving truck for a straight delivery to your new location.

Other situations that the mover have low expenses.

My opinion is that those low moving estimates are usually low ball moving estimates that we need to avoid. We can ask the movers all the time what is the reason for the low moving price that they offer but they probably have written answers to convince us that we don’t need to worry. Personally i don’t trust those low moving quotes.

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Moving companies by law must have actual weight of your household goods if you have a moving estimate that is calculated by the weight of your items. If you have moving estimate that is calculated by cubic foot or flat rate moving price the movers don’t need to have actual weight. The moving company that you hire is going to weight your household goods before they pick everything up from your house/apartment, Light Weight, and after they will load the truck with your household goods, Heavy Weight. If you think that something is wrong with the weight tickets, the weigh of your household goods looks to much, the weight tickets are not from the same date or place, you can ask the moving company to do Re-Weigh.

How Re-Weigh done?

You need to call the moving company few days before they come to your delivery address and to let them know that you want them to weight the truck again. Meet the driver in Truck Scale, Weigh Station near your house/apartment before he come to your place and do the first weight. After the moving company driver unload your household goods go with him to the truck scale or weigh station again to have a second weight ticket. Calculate the actual weigh of your belonging and let the moving company know. If there is less weight they need to give you money back if there is more weight they will ask you to pay more.

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Call moving companies now to make reservation for your household goods move, car move or international move. It’s starting to look like the moving season is going to start early this year. Take advantage of the low prices that the moving companies have now and make moving reservation, even if you are planning to move few months from now.

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The moving season usually starts in good years around March or April and in less good years like this year the moving season will start probably around May or June and it will end around the end of September or October.

The moving and storage business is slow right now you can take advantage and receive good deals from moving companies for your household move. Also, ask the moving companies for early reservation discount.

Anyway it is not recommended to move with the moving company that gives you the lowest price, move with companies that give you average moving price.

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Moving? I see that as a new beginning. Start your new life with good things. Donate what you don’t need to charity before using a moving company or moving by your self. Use your move to get closer to your Wife / Husband / Kids. Look for better friends in your new neighborhood / city. Promise yourself to make some good changes.

Moving giving new opportunities to you and your family to start over and to fix things that are not so
good right now, don’t lose those opportunities and get the maximum from your move.

Straight From My Heart – Your Moving Consultant – Moving Blogger

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Before choosing a moving company estimate you need to consider a special situations that may occur when the movers are moving in or moving out your household goods. 

Few common situations are: You have unusual size or shape of items. Heavy items. Flights of stairs. There is a long carry that is usually more than 60 feet from the moving truck to your door. The movers need to do a shuttle to move your household goods from the truck to your house because they can not access your property with the small or big truck.

Conclusion: Before you decide which mover you are going to hire make sure to check if one of the special moving situations may apply to your move and anyway make sure that on the estimate you will have prices for those special situations.

Good Luck  

Your Free Moving Consultant

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