01-03-2007, 03:33 AM
I don’t believe “You only know by doing”? We read all the horror stories and decided to move ourselves. We had to combine two households on the mainland. U-Haul one apartments stuff from NJ to NY, then load the house and U-Haul into the container for shipping.
Here’s what we did.
First we shipped two cars 5 weeks ahead of us flying. (Autolog) The cars were here when we arrived.
U-Haul has businesses on their web site that will pack any truck or container you may have. (Just load the truck) So, we boxed everything in both houses.
Rented a U-Haul truck in NJ and the moving men came on time and packed everything. Drove to NY and the moving men there unpacked the U-Haul and packed the U-Haul and the house into the container in about 5 hours. We put our own lock on the container and took it off in our driveway in Hawaiian Beaches. Horizon picked up the container on time and we flew out the next morning.
The container arrived on time and we used a local trucking company to deliver the container to our new home. Got the neighbor and two sons (Paid them of course) to unload the container and furniture in 3 hours. The container was picked up the next day and we were done.
I’m sure the planning was the key to our success.
We saved a ton of money; nothing missing and only one mixing bowl broke. Of course it was my wife’s favorite bowl, go figure.
Do it your self, save money and have no one to blame when things start to go wrong and they are out of your control. If we had to do it over again I wouldn’t change a thing. Email me if you need more info on moving and I hope I can help.
Here’s what we did.
First we shipped two cars 5 weeks ahead of us flying. (Autolog) The cars were here when we arrived.
U-Haul has businesses on their web site that will pack any truck or container you may have. (Just load the truck) So, we boxed everything in both houses.
Rented a U-Haul truck in NJ and the moving men came on time and packed everything. Drove to NY and the moving men there unpacked the U-Haul and packed the U-Haul and the house into the container in about 5 hours. We put our own lock on the container and took it off in our driveway in Hawaiian Beaches. Horizon picked up the container on time and we flew out the next morning.
The container arrived on time and we used a local trucking company to deliver the container to our new home. Got the neighbor and two sons (Paid them of course) to unload the container and furniture in 3 hours. The container was picked up the next day and we were done.
I’m sure the planning was the key to our success.
We saved a ton of money; nothing missing and only one mixing bowl broke. Of course it was my wife’s favorite bowl, go figure.
Do it your self, save money and have no one to blame when things start to go wrong and they are out of your control. If we had to do it over again I wouldn’t change a thing. Email me if you need more info on moving and I hope I can help.
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