Moving Tips & Helpful Resources for Planning to Make a Major Move

Moving Box Delivery hopes that these moving tips and moving resource links are helpful in making your moving experience a great one. From researching the “Best Place” for your family to move to, to actually moving in, these moving tips provide great sources to help your families move be smooth and effective. We hope that our certified moving boxes and moving supplies inside of our moving kits, help make your move a success!


Researching Your New Home Resources

Moving tips are just as helpful BEFORE you move as they are after. When moving to a new home or planning on moving to a new home, the first step is often to research where you are thinking of moving to. Researching the schools, crime statistics, cost of living, demographics, earning tables, weather, professional opportunities, and average ages are some of the items that people look at before committing to a new place.

The following moving tips are a collection of demographic links that will help you make the best decision you can about the new home you are moving to.

Demographics
http://www.city-data.com/

Best Places to Live
http://www.cityrating.com

Top 100 Lists of Cities
http://www.city-data.com/toplists.html

Quick facts Demographics
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html

Cost of Homes
http://www.zillow.com

Salary Calculator
http://www.homefair.com/calc/salcalc.html

How to Recycling Various Items in Your Home

One of the most helpful moving resources to have is information about how to sell, donate or recycle belongings both in your old home and in your new home.

People accumulate so many things. Many of these items are not items that will be useful at your new home. Therefore, before moving it is a very good idea to go through your belongings and sort through what you want to keep, what you want to donate, what you want to recycle and what is just pure trash. Many items that you may be tempted to throw out can actually be recycled to help our environment. Items such as the moving boxes you use after you move!

Find the Local Recycling Centers By Your New Home:

Recycle Moving Boxes

How to Sell/or Donate Your Belongings Before Moving

Do you know how to sell items from your home before you move? Many people find that garage sales are not always very lucrative and can be very time consuming. This is not the only option. There are many ways that you can sell your belongings before you move in a quick and efficient fashion. Use these helpful moving resources to get rid of items that you don't want to move.

Sell on Craigs List
http://www.craigslist.com

Sell at Consignment Shops (Enter the word Consignment shops and your city)
http://www.yellowpages.com

Donate to Charities
Contact: Goodwill (800-664-6577) or the Salvation Army (800-SAL-ARMY) for donating items.

 

How to Find a Quality Mover

Finding a good moving company is an important decision. Many people don't know where to start, or how they should look for a moving company. We suggest always starting in the BBB. This is a great moving resource to make sure that the moving company has a good rating, a long history and is licensed, insured and bonded.

Find a Mover-American Moving Association
http://www.moving.org

Research Moving Companies- Better Business Bureau
http://lookup.bbb.org/

Find Truck Rentals -Yellowpages.com
(TYPE IN MOVERS and YOUR CITY)
http://www.yellowpages.com

 

Should You Buy Moving Insurance or Not?

Many people don't know what moving insurance is, nor understand when and/or why they should purchase it. Moving companies are not legally able to sell moving insurance, which is full replacement insurance. If you are interested in this type of coverage, make sure your moving company is pre approved with the moving insurance company. (This is also a good sign if they are that they don't have a long history of claims.)

Then contact the moving insurance company and purchase this well before your move. There are many rules and regulations about when the moving insurance needs to be purchased. Make sure to research this before you schedule your move. As a priority of moving resources, these are important to know about.

What is Moving Insurance?

Baker Insurance
http://www.bakerintl.com/
Moving Insurance.com
http://www.movinginsurance.com

Need to Find Licensed Contractors To Do Remodeling of Your New Home

Are you remodeling your home? Do you have a few items that you need to fix moving into your new home? One really good moving resource for finding local contractors is Angies list.

Angies List
http://www.angieslist.com

 

Change of Address Resources

Make sure to change all of your addresses before you move. There are a few addresses that many people forget to change when moving such as their student loans and the IRS. We have included these links as helpful moving resources.

Whitefence - One Stop Shop Service that Changes all Your Bills and Address
www.whitefence.com

Notify the IRS of new address for tax refunds
 

 

Need To Ship Something Before You Move- A List of Shipping Providers

Do you need to ship a car before you move? Are you driving one car and need the other one to be shipped? Do you need to store one car before the other is shipped. Perhaps you have some fine art that needs to be shipped. Make sure you consult professionals who specialize in these areas. We hope these moving resources are helpful.

Shipping a Car
http://www.autoshipping.com/resources.php

 

Non Toxic, Environmentally Friendly Cleaning products to Clean Your New Home

Need cleaning products for your new home. We suggest some environmentally friendly and healthy cleaning products.

Seventh Generation Cleaning Products
www.seventhgeneration.com

Mrs Meyers Cleaning Products
www.mrsmeyers.com

Moving Tips- Environmentally Friendly Products when Moving to Your New Home

Moving Box Delivery believes in environmentally friendly products. Therefore, we have found a few moving resources that we recommend to be useful while moving, or while you are settling into your new home.
 

Bags to take to the Grocery store
www.ecobags.com.

Online Shopping Malls for environmentally Friendly products
http://www.ecomall.com/
http://www.greenpeople.org/

Babies

Hypoallergenic Products for Babies
http://www.allergybuyersclubshopping.com/baby.html

Cloth Diapers and Other Environmentally Friendly Baby Products
http://www.babybunz.com/

Real Estate Resources When Moving to a New Place

Are you moving to a new city and need to find a room mate, an apartment, a realtor or a rental? We have some wonderful moving resources to help you get settled as soon as possible in the new city you live in. Enjoy these real estate moving resources.

Find an Apartment
www.apartmentsearch.com

 

Find a Rental
http://rentals.realtor.com/rentals/

Find a Realtor
www.realtor.com

Moving to a New Home-Pet Resources

If you have a dog or a cat, or any animal, well you have a baby that you are moving. You may need to find pet services in your new city, or be interested in adopting a pet when you move to your new home.

Adopt an animal at your new home
http://www.pets911.com/index.php

Moving with Kids Resources

If you are moving with kids, we know that it can be challenging. There are so many moving resources that you need. We have put together a few nation wide moving resources that are helpful for people who have kids.

Web Site for Moms Who Are Moving and Need Advice from Other Moms
http://www.mamasource.com/join/welcome

Moving Web Site for Kids
http://www.defenselink.mil/mtom/index_k.htm

 

Social Resources Moving to a New Place

Interested in meeting new people in the place you are moving to? Meet up is a wonderful moving resource that helps bring people together that have similar interests. From books clubs, interest clubs. and more, anything you are interested in you can meet others who have the same interest.

Find local clubs and meetups for singles, professionals, moms, hobbyists and more.
www.meetup.com