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The Futon: A Do It Yourself Mover's Best Friend
So, you’re pulling a do it yourself move, avoiding the rental truck, the services, the fees. This move is going to be made on your back and your car’s axles alone. And you have got it all squared away. You … Continue reading
Apartment Hunting from Afar
In a perfect world, you’d be a millionaire who didn’t have to work and who could live in a hotel indefinitely while searching for a new place. The world is not perfect. Chances are, if you are moving to a … Continue reading
Considering You Pack Services for Your Next Move
You pack, we drive.? You pack, we move.? You pack, we ship.? Call if what you want, but there is a moving service out there that doesn?t require you taking out a mortgage to move your stuff and that also … Continue reading
Meeting Your New Neighbors
After you settle in, you don’t have to meet your neighbors. You can quietly go to and from work without interacting with anyone in your neighborhood or apartment complex. However, you should go out of your way to meet your … Continue reading
Taxes: How Moving Can Save You Money
Moving is bad. Taxes are worse. However, sometimes they can combine into something positive. In certain situations, you can deduct your moving expenses from your taxes. For example, if moving cost you $5,000, you can subtract that amount from your … Continue reading
Hiring a Moving Company: How to Haggle
Okay, let’s be real, you don’t haggle with a moving company like you do with a sunglasses vendor in a beach. Moving companies are professional entities that do not alter their prices for customers after they shrug and threaten to … Continue reading
The Reason to Choose Cable over DSL
When choosing an Internet service provider, you might have to decide between cable and DSL (dial up is irrelevant in 2011). So, which is better? The truth of the matter is that it depends: are you a casual Internet user … Continue reading
The Price of Moving
Moving can be an expensive affair. According to CNN, the average cost of shipping your stuff to your new home is over $10,000. This number might seem high, but it’s not unreasonable. Hiring a full service moving company to transport … Continue reading
When Self-Storage Becomes Self Destruction
Self-storage is taking on a new role in America: a home addition. In the past, self-storage units were used as transitional crutches, places to store stuff for a limited time with a foreseeable end. People used them while living in … Continue reading
Moving Smoothly – Avoiding Hurting Your Back
The most common injury associated with moving is the proverbial “throwing out your back.” A person lifts a heavy box the wrong way, or misses the stair, or simply twists around the wrong way while packing… then POP… and there’s … Continue reading
