Moving is a stressful time and particularly at loading time. To help the level of stress be at a minimum here are a few suggestions. First & foremost have the driveway plowed and have access to salt for icy patches if you are moving during the winter months. Clear your driveway and sidewalks of any toys, hoses, or anything that may be in the way of the loaders so they can safely move your furniture and boxes onto the truck.
You are ready and need to sell your home. You have found a realtor who has assessed a selling price and they are ready to put your home on the market. Their job is to market your home so it will sell for the highest price in the quickest amount of time. At this point your home becomes a product. That product has to compete with a huge inventory of homes, especially because of today’s market. So your home needs to be priced right and look the best among the competition. This is where “home staging” comes into play. So your realtor will enlist the help of a “home stager” that has been accredited by “Accredited Staging Professional (ASP).” The ASP has gone through a rigorous training at the ASP University that was started by Barb Schwarz. Barb Schwarz is the founder & CEO of Stagedhomes.com. She is known worldwide as a leader in the Home Staging business teaching courses at her ASP University where realtors and individuals become accredited to do Home Staging.
Before Home Staging
Ageasoft, LLC has come out with an iOS app for the iPhone and iPod Touch that will help folks determine the weight and volume of their household. Home owners can quickly go from room to room with their iPhone and inventory the entire household item by item. The app can support a number of different moves such as moving your child to college or moving a single family home. It can store all the items in your home plus keep track of the quantity, volume, weight, pictures, and notes. You can designate room by name, i.e. “Haley’s room”, “Master Bedroom”. It supports imperial and metric measurement units as well as generates a PDF file report that shows room by room details and summary of the weight and volume of what you have entered.
If you know your destination city, the best time to schedule to call your mover to give you an estimate is about four weeks prior to your move out date. The estimator will arrive and ask you several questions to get a better idea of the scope of the move. Some of these questions would be:
