Need advice on moving

McCracken

McCracken

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So looks like I'm outta here. Not too far but I'm going to have to move. I've never ran into this before. When I moved before it was just me and the Mrs and a wiener dog. We didn't have much stuff. Now, I've got a house full of stuff, a garage full of stuff and lots of other misc crap. How the hell do you do this? I'm borderline overwhelmed. I've heard people say "rent a storage building". I need to rent a warehouse if that's the case. Do you just pay two mortgages? If that's the case I'm screwed.

Any advice is very much appreciated.
 
When I bought my first house in 2005, I was single, so it was easy. A friend, a trailer, a pickup, and everything was moved from my apartment and my parents house to that first house. Several years later I was married, we had a 2 year old boy, and A LOT more stuff. We had decided to sell our current house and have a new house built. I didn't want to get stuck with two mortgages, so we put the old house up for sale. I actually rented a big storage unit and an outdoor parking place at a storage facility before putting it up for sale. I put my 1 ton Ford Ranger cab truck inside the storage unit along with a bunch of other clutter to make the existing/old house look better. I then kept my Samurai on my car trailer in the rented parking space at the same storage facility. That made the old house as attractive as possible to potential buyers. When the house sold, we found a house to rent about 1-2 miles from where our new house was going to be built. I then brought the Samurai and trailer to the rent house to save on storage costs and so I could work on it when necessary, but kept the storage unit with the cab truck inside and all the other stuff in there. Once the new house was finished, I unloaded the storage unit and brought everything there. We paid movers to move us from the old house to the rental house, and again to move us from the rental house to the new house. We lived in the rental house for 13 months.
 
Details would help

Have you sold your house?

Relocating far away?

moving by choice up da skreet?

What's the situation? That would help with advice (maybe someones been in that same one and can offer help)
 
CasterTroy said:
Details would help

Have you sold your house?

Relocating far away?

moving by choice up da skreet?

What's the situation? That would help with advice (maybe someones been in that same one and can offer help)
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This.
The best advice depends heavily on the situation.
If this is a job-based move, a good distance, IMO it's best to just pay for movers, and even packers, to come do it for you as a package deal.
After doing that for our move to MD, and then moving myself into our next home here 18 months later, I will never move my family on my own again. Just not worth it. Pay professionals and save your sanity.

As for cleaning up the house to look sellable - yup, look into a storage facility for the toys.
Also take it as an opportunity to go through an GET RID OF STUFF.
 
Hire a mover, don't mess with uhauls....

When we moved my uncle to an apartment in assisted living, we hired a mover to go pick up all his furniture and stuff in Rocky Mount, bring it to Sanford, and unload at 2 locations -- his apartment, and the rest to the basement of my mom's house. $1200 bucks total for 1700sf house. Uhauls, beer, pizza, gas would have eaten up a big share of that. And all we had to do was point which direction something went.

Of course, find a local company, not one of the nationals.

We are moving at the end of the year. I started several months ago, mostly in the shop, sorting out, and packing some stuff up. That's going to be my biggest problem, moving all the heavy parts, equipment, etc. I have built some crates, collected pallets, and got a bunch of plastic bins. Trying to sort piles of parts into whatever (unfinished, probably never finished) project they belong to. Plan is, by new years, to have 90% to where it can be loaded with the tractor forks.

One other thing about the movers....just leave everything in dresser drawers, etc....they'll take a dresser or whatever with stuff in it....no need to pack/unpack all that.

I have decided to use the move as an opportunity to purge some stuff, so it isn't cluttering up the new place. Figured the "value" of somethings doesn't offset the burden....so even if it goes to goodwill or the recycler, it's worth it.

We are lucky with our move, in that we are not putting the house on the market until we are in the new house. Then I don't have to work around furniture and stuff to paint and do a few needed fixes.
 
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RatLabGuy said:
I will never move my family on my own again. Just not worth it. Pay professionals and save your sanity.
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I have to second this. The number is frightening at first. But you can't put a price tag on the shear stress this takes off you
 
RatLabGuy said:
This.
The best advice depends heavily on the situation.
If this is a job-based move, a good distance, IMO it's best to just pay for movers, and even packers, to come do it for you as a package deal.
After doing that for our move to MD, and then moving myself into our next home here 18 months later, I will never move my family on my own again. Just not worth it. Pay professionals and save your sanity.

As for cleaning up the house to look sellable - yup, look into a storage facility for the toys.
Also take it as an opportunity to go through an GET RID OF STUFF.
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hes taking a pee test right now, but we were talking about this earlier. its job based and they are covering moving.
i think he is more concerned about what to do about housing do you buy a house and hope yours sells pretty fast or what.
as for storing his toys..... ya he gonna need a warehouse couple tractors two j-10s a couple Willis trucks, one he is trying to restore plus his crawler. i dont think the movers will cover any of that lol
 
Loganwayne said:
hes taking a pee test right now, but we were talking about this earlier. its job based and they are covering moving.
i think he is more concerned about what to do about housing do you buy a house and hope yours sells pretty fast or what.
as for storing his toys..... ya he gonna need a warehouse couple tractors two j-10s a couple Willis trucks, one he is trying to restore plus his crawler. i dont think the movers will cover any of that lol
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hopefully a friend with space will step up to help hold his projects so he can pick up one or two at a time, over time.

in the military, alot guys found great success taking advantage of "job based moves" by renting their current home and buying a new home. i dont know all the ins and outs of what they did though.
 
ckruzer said:
hopefully a friend with space will step up to help hold his projects so he can pick up one or two at a time, over time.

in the military, alot guys found great success taking advantage of "job based moves" by renting their current home and buying a new home. i dont know all the ins and outs of what they did though.
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I'll help move them but don't got no room to store stuff


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I made half a dozen or so round trips from the NE side of Raleigh to SW of Charlotte when my family moved a few years back. I hauled a full size long bed and a ~16'x8' utility trailer full of our stuff each time. I did it mostly solo, as my wife was pregnant at the time and my 3 year old was not going to be much help. Just me and my trusty (and occasional PITA but couldn't have done it without it) Harbor Freight appliance dolly. Did a trip or two during the week and one on the weekend over 3 weeks or so. We moved from a 3bd/2ba 1500 sqft and small 2 car garage to 5bd/3ba 3000 and a small 3 car garage, so finding space to drop stuff off wasn't as bad as it could have been - didn't need to put stuff where it needed to go, just found space to drop it and roll back out.

If it was 5-6 hrs away instead of 3hrs, I'd have rented a big ass uhaul and done it all at once. If it was farther or more than one big ass uhaul load, I'd break out the plastic and hire movers.
 
CasterTroy said:
Details would help

Have you sold your house?

Relocating far away?

moving by choice up da skreet?

What's the situation? That would help with advice (maybe someones been in that same one and can offer help)
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I'm heading to East TN. Roughly Kinsport / Johnson City. The company will pay to move my stuff. That's all pretty cut and dry.

No, we haven't sold the house or even contacted a realtor to set it up. We found a place but we'll have to work on the price and even then it'll be tough. The Mrs will definitely have to go back to work (which is a whole other issue :rolleyes:). Anyway, the concern I have is in order to get top dollar for the house I know it needs to look spacious and attractive. This will require lots of work because we have a 19 month old that is in to everything. The two dogs also haven't helped with their periodic chewing of the baseboard trim. I figured I'd hire that out but we already have two storage units rented and they are full.
ckruzer said:
hopefully a friend with space will step up to help hold his projects so he can pick up one or two at a time, over time.

in the military, alot guys found great success taking advantage of "job based moves" by renting their current home and buying a new home. i dont know all the ins and outs of what they did though.
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this would be a "perfect" scenario. however, I know no one with a warehouse or empty, massive garage that they can loan out until my house sells and another bought.

thanks for the moving tips btw :cool:
 
McCracken said:
this would be a "perfect" scenario. however, I know no one with a warehouse or empty, massive garage that they can loan out until my house sells and another bought.

thanks for the moving tips btw :cool:
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ill put my ear to the ground for ya.
 
Throw. Shit. Away.

I'm serious.

We moved out of our house temporarily in 2012 for a renovation, moved back in 4 mos later, moved out for good in 2015. We threw stuff away every time. The first one was the hardest. After that, if it was a box that hadn't been opened since the last move, it got gone.

Moving the 3rd time was pretty easy. All the tools and stuff got loaded into the race trailer. A few pickup truck trips across town got the big stuff. We had a couple of months to work through it, though.

A moving company isn't going to touch any of the shit (vehicles, parts, tools, etc) that are going to be the most difficult or time-consuming to move.
 
shawn said:
A moving company isn't going to touch any of the shit (vehicles, parts, tools, etc) that are going to be the most difficult or time-consuming to move.
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Just to be clear - when we moved, all done by a big company (Allied IIRC), I had a whole basement full of tools, parts, scrap metal, etc.
They packed and moved all of it. It just added a lot to the cost b/c they charged by weight and some formula for packing time (yes, we even had them pack for us).
I didn't care b/c it was all covered in my hiring package. But in retrospect, we moved a ton of shit that should have just been tossed or given to friends. DEFINITELY take this as an opportunity to thin the herd.

They aren't going to touch the project vehicles though. I mean - they will, if you find the right company, but you (or somebody) will pay for it for sure.

Professional packing is amazing, awesome, and quite daunting later. They will pack anything and everything just as it sits in the room. They don't hunt around to find just the right box for stuff, or to gather things from different places to pack them together. Literally whatever is near together in a room goes in the same box. They don't really care so much if the box is full, just convenient and fast for them to get stuff in. We literally had a trash can full of trash end up in a box in our new house.
what this means is that a couple of guys can pack your house very quickly while you sit back and drink beer.
But it also means when you get there, you don't have a fucking clue what is in what box, and unpacking is like Christmas for 3 days straight.
 
btw @McCracken, talk to the hiring agent and ask about storage expenses. If they are covering moving costs, it's very possible they will cover the cost of storage as part of it. sometimes people also get realty fees and other things associated with the house sale included. It all depends on the size of the company and how badly they want you...
 
@McCracken whats up with the j trucks logan mentioned?
 
obullfish said:
@McCracken how much of a storage space do you think you need and for how long?
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Not sure. It all depends on the real estate market. I need to clear the house of excess "stuff" so I can help it sell.

RatLabGuy said:
btw @McCracken, talk to the hiring agent and ask about storage expenses. If they are covering moving costs, it's very possible they will cover the cost of storage as part of it. sometimes people also get realty fees and other things associated with the house sale included. It all depends on the size of the company and how badly they want you...
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Good idea

RHSCTJ said:
@McCracken whats up with the j trucks logan mentioned?
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I've got two that are parts trucks. I really want a set of waggy NT axles but couldn't find a set in the ratio I wanted to so I planned on keeping a pair for the Willys build. Both 360s, one's a 4 speed, the other 3 speed. Nothing spectacular.
 
thanks. it's definitely bitter sweet. it's only an hour and half away from here but we're getting further away from family and friends. I think in the long run it'll be what we need to get ahead and that's why I've decided to go for it.

I think now's the time for me to pitch my TN4x4 idea to @shawn
 
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