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In my mind, I could get rid of everything, but wife doesn't see it that way. Anyway, we don't really have that much, we never were collectors of crap but our first estimate was $18,000 expedited and $12,000 Value-Flex with Two Men and a Truck, for a move from Iowa to Arizona for next September.
Seems like a lot to me! No dining room furniture, only one bedroom with clothing in it, no appliances, no lawn equipment other than a leaf blower, no outdoor furniture, 4 mattress sets (giving two to our daughter in AZ) 3 dressers, and living/and family room furniture and 3 flat screen TVs and kitchen cabinet stuff. Our personal items, photos, decorations etc. which includes about 50 boxes.
Does that sound within range? If the estimates we get in the future all seem that high we will probably do PODS or U-Pack, I think we can get by around $5,000 total with hiring movers at each end.
In my mind, I could get rid of everything, but wife doesn't see it that way. Anyway, we don't really have that much, we never were collectors of crap but our first estimate was $18,000 expedited and $12,000 Value-Flex with Two Men and a Truck, for a move from Iowa to Arizona for next September.
Seems like a lot to me! No dining room furniture, only one bedroom with clothing in it, no appliances, no lawn equipment other than a leaf blower, no outdoor furniture, 4 mattress sets (giving two to our daughter in AZ) 3 dressers, and living/and family room furniture and 3 flat screen TVs and kitchen cabinet stuff. Our personal items, photos, decorations etc. which includes about 50 boxes.
Does that sound within range? If the estimates we get in the future all seem that high we will probably do PODS or U-Pack, I think we can get by around $5,000 total with hiring movers at each end.
Sounds like several hours of crunching numbers should yield a real clear conclusion as to how to proceed.
Price up replacing some of the larger items you have that you could buy new at your final destination. Then consider what’s left to move and price moving that with a POD and if you need people to load or unload depending on your abilities and time. We moved using POD’s and hiring loaders as needed, by the hour.
And, if the best price is to replace your major furniture, you could price a small rental UHaul and drive it yourself, if that works for you.
Usually, POD’s wind up being the best cost effective method when moving, unless your move is nearby.
When we relocated from Dallas to Austin, the estimate was $29,000. I told my husband we should just get rid of it all, and buy new when we move as our stuff wasn't worth $29k. He ended up renting a u-haul for all the heavy garage stuff at $29 a day, and we got the amount down to $15k, which his company paid for. I still don't think our stuff was worth $15k either, but we didn't pay out of pocket. If we had to, I would never have spent that to ship it 200 miles.
Ouch! I could do some serious downsizing. I have nothing big in the line of family heirlooms so I would probably be inclined to buy new stuff. You could ship boxes through the post office to your new address, although I don't know what the rates would be. I have mailed luggage to myself when heading home from vacations so as to not have to deal with it at the airport, but that's been ages ago.
We moved a partial household from Dallas to Las Vegas in March 2017. We paid $5,000. To United, a conventional moving company For the following.
*Load & unlaod, no pack but move in moving truck
*Crate matresses & 72” TV
*About 30 boxes including about 5 wardrobe boxes
*3 easy chairs & sectional couch very heavy coffee table (marble)
*Master bedroom set (large) & mattress (solid foam, very heavy)
*2 TV’s — one was 72”, other about 50”
*Large hammered metal dining table with 6 very heay leather chairs
*2 barstools
*a few occasional tables
*diningroom buffet
*very heavy sofa table
*2 9x13 wool area rugs
*assorted lamps, framed artwork, and garage tools and ladders (no landscaping equipment)
It took us a long time to pare down our 4500 sq ft house to basically a diningroom, a livingroom, a master bedroom and various artwork and tools. But we would never have paid another $10K to move the rest of our belongings. You need to trim back more and get more bids.
In my mind, I could get rid of everything, but wife doesn't see it that way. Anyway, we don't really have that much, we never were collectors of crap but our first estimate was $18,000 expedited and $12,000 Value-Flex with Two Men and a Truck, for a move from Iowa to Arizona for next September.
Seems like a lot to me! No dining room furniture, only one bedroom with clothing in it, no appliances, no lawn equipment other than a leaf blower, no outdoor furniture, 4 mattress sets (giving two to our daughter in AZ) 3 dressers, and living/and family room furniture and 3 flat screen TVs and kitchen cabinet stuff. Our personal items, photos, decorations etc. which includes about 50 boxes.
Does that sound within range? If the estimates we get in the future all seem that high we will probably do PODS or U-Pack, I think we can get by around $5,000 total with hiring movers at each end.
We were getting estimates on the Uhaul site (they are all independent contractors) of $200 or so for 2 guys for 2 hours. Now ours was not a long distance move, only about 60 miles. For a long distance, I assume you'd hire a crew to move you out, then have another arranged for the other end at your new location. the site asks you to put in both addresses. We had to add an extra amount for the stairs, can't remember how much but not a lot. Of course you can get more helpers, and more hours, and you have to rent the U-Haul, but it is MUCH less than the quotes you are getting. They are all reviewed on the site. Here is the link: https://www.uhaul.com/MovingHelp/ and here is just one example from the site:
We moved virtually all our furniture and household goods including many books from our three bedroom house in New York to Florida for $11,000 in 2016. We had three large moving companies bid and they all came in at the same figure based on estimated weight. We went with United because they were the most professional and we were very happy. They packed, loaded and unloaded for that price. Our driver arranged for the unloaders from a United franchise here and they were great. Nothing damaged or lost. Your figure seems way out of line. Get more estimates.
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