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My husband and I are planning to move to Irving from southern California at the end of February. I wanted to see if anyone has input about moving that distance. This is the first time for us. We will be staying in a hotel while waiting for the movers to arrive. We will also be flying there with our two cats.
We would love advice on how to find the right movers and getting the best deal, tips on making sure our stuff arrives in good condition and flying with pets.
My husband and I are planning to move to Irving from southern California at the end of February. I wanted to see if anyone has input about moving that distance. This is the first time for us. We will be staying in a hotel while waiting for the movers to arrive. We will also be flying there with our two cats.
We would love advice on how to find the right movers and getting the best deal, tips on making sure our stuff arrives in good condition and flying with pets.
Thank you for your time and help!
Hi Sprinter,
we are moving from MD to TX in a couple months. What we did is call maybe 5 moving companies and get them to give us estimates. We are narrowing it down and think we have the one we like best and the best deal.
as for your question of how much, too hard to say from here, most go by weight and I'm sure distance plays a factor as well. I can tell you after pricing Uhauls (I was going to do it myself) I found the moving compaines to be suprisingly reasonable. In fact I wouldnt really save ANY money doing it myself.
I recently went through a survey of moving companies and found two California based companies to have good references and reasonable estimates; Hercules and Moovers.
I've had the Navy move us several times, and it was always a nightmare. (The Navy contracts with commercial companies.) It usually took Navy Legal threatening to blackball the movers before they would resolve our issues. I realize that part of that issue is the lowest bidder effect, but it's turned me off from commercial movers. When we moved from SC to Texas, we moved ourselves. It took two U-Haul trucks, one 26' and one 24', plus the two tow dollys to get our vehicles here. But it only costs us $1500 to do it ourselves.
We are looking into the same thing. On another forum, I heard about a company called ABF U-Pack. Look them up. It seems that everyone on the forum had nothing but great things to say. We were thinking of U-Haul, but I believe that ABF will be a much less expensive route & no driving the truck.
We just got done moving my Mom out here from Northern California and did it ourselves. We had help from the grandkids to help pack the big Penske truck (she rented a 26') and we drove (am planning on doing a trip report when I get back to California).
She had quotes of upwards of 10K to move and we did it counting hotels etc, about 3500 max. That includes all gas, hotels, snickey snacks etc. We took four days because we had my 2yr old and didn't want her stuck in a car that long.
We looked at ABF as well which we may do when we are able to finally move, but will probably drive out ourselves.
We Moved From Ca To Hi,... After Checking With A Ton Of Movers Just To Get Our Stuff To The Dock,(70 Miles) We Decided To Sell Everything We Own, I Mailed Thru Usps 40 Boxes For $1200....then When We Got To Hawaii I Got To Shop For All New Stuff That Would Work In The House We Bought!(i Looked For Things That People Were Trying To Sell The Same Way We Did And Got Some Awesome Furniture, Inexpensive!) It Was Really An Adventure And Lots Of Fun To Redecorate...the Reason This Worked For Us, Is That, We Did Scale Down In House Size A Bit, As We Didn't Get Full Price For The Things We Sold...although, I Was Surprised At The Amount We Did Make, It Was A Lot More That We Thought Originally That We Would Get For Our Things! We Are Going To Move To Dallas In A Year And Plan On Doing The Move The Same Way Again!...good Luck!!
I like your method, but my wife disagrees. She wants to keep everything.
Things I've been dying to throw away....she now wants to move.
Since moving myself is right up there with pulling wisdom teeth and removing wallpaper....I need to find some pricing on decent movers that will move a subset of the stuff I own.
The rest will go to goodwill.
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