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Moving can sometimes be expensive. The American Moving and Storage Association estimates that 4 bedroom home local moves cost an average of $1500 - $2,300 with interstate moves costing nearly double. Our friends at Simple Dollar have written a great guide on how to save some dough and get to your new home debt-free.
Moving requires a lot of decisions and selecting the right mover is an important one. Choosing a moving company like Two Men and a Truck may be an alternative but may not be the best fit for your business or home moving needs.
Here are a couple of articles that we found that can potentially help you.
12 Steps to Hiring a Mover
- Get recommendations
- Do an initial screening
- You should end up with at least three or four companies to call for an in-home estimate
- When an estimator comes to your home, show him everything
- Review the estimate
- As you get estimates, collect them in a brightly colored (that is, hard-to-lose) moving folder
- When you’ve gotten all your estimates in, compare the bids
- Now check out the contenders in more detail
- Next, make sure your moving company has the license and insurance it needs to move you legally
- Finally, call the FMCSA’s Safety Violation and Consumer Complaints hotline
- Now you can select a mover
- On moving day, get a written copy of the mover’s inventory list
The article written by Adam Bluestein is a great resource to find a reliable mover who fits your budget (and won’t lose the truck). And it's a fun read.
Steps to Select a Mover
This article from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and the FMCSA is a fantastic resource. In this article, you will learn some key steps to avoid moving fraud and inform yourself of your options when choosing a moving company.
Resources for researching potential movers
Verify that the mover is licensed by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, for interstate movers. Go to www.protectyourmove.gov to double-check the mover's license. Search for any complaints about interstate movers.
For local moves, check for similar resources in your state.
Always check that the mover is in good standing with the Better Business Bureau. And check for the display of the American Moving & Storage Association's ProMover logo, “a quality, professional” mover insignia.
American Moving, Interstate Agent for Bekins offers:
- American Moving and Storage Association ProMover, a quality, professional mover.
- Upfront pricing and realistic quotes
- Knowledgeable sales team
- Reliable, skilled movers
- Concierge Services to simplify your move for you
- Project management and logistics of the biggest commercial moves
- A+ Better Business Bureau member
- Five Star reviews year after year
We provide professional, courteous service throughout your move whether it be for your home or business. Our extensive experience in commercial moving, office moves, specialty moving, international relocation and residential moving can help you to alleviate any doubts you may have had.
Our storage facility is secure, and climate-controlled located in Broomfield, CO, just north of Denver. It is available for your home or business move for short or long-term use.
Contact us today to learn more about how we can help you.
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Office and Industrial relocation is simplified with American Moving & Storage, Interstate Agent for Bekins. The professional moving team has handled commercial moving, office and industrial facility relocations, corporate relocation for decades and we facilitate the relocation every step of the way.
We manage your office and industrial relocation moves
From our moving consultants to our expert movers on moving day, we handle your moving needs. Our moving services from logistics to packing specialty items and hardware are on time and on budget.
We can help your organization move:
- Office equipment and furniture
- Fixtures and Appliances
- Computers, IT equipment, and systems furniture
- Heavy machinery transport
- Medical equipment transport
For your office and industrial, commercial move, we’ll help you with the transportation logistics, specialized packing, and unpacking and we will deliver on time. Your office and industrial relocation projects are in expert hands.
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Our expert moving team can help with the logistics of your next commercial hospitality moving project. Whether you are renovating or building a hotel, we can help you move. Our expert moving team will work with our Bekins furniture, fixtures, and equipment division—ELS Essential FF&E Project Management—to recommend packing, transportation, and warehousing and distribution solutions that solve some of the most challenging moving projects in the hospitality industry.
American Moving, Interstate Agent for Bekins and ELS Essential FF&E Project Management will efficiently handle the logistics of the move.
Each commercial hospitality moving project we offer:
- Project manager dedicated to your project as your single point of contact.
- Secure and climate controlled storage.
- Detailed Inventory control and management.
- A network of environmentally conscious service providers.
Warehousing
We have in transit, short term, and long term storage services for your hospitality warehousing needs. We will keep your items safe and secure in our climate controlled secure facility—even your most fragile and specialty items.
Packing
Carefully packing is an important part of any move. We have the expertise you need to make sure the job gets done right.
To schedule your hospitality move, contact us today.
Employee relocation can be stressful for employees and employers. That's why you need a professional moving and storage company, like us, to help you navigate a successful move. With years of experience, we can help employees and employers make the process as smooth, simple, and easy as possible.
Maximize Professional Employee Relocation Services
Our professional moving consultants are experts in helping you navigate your upcoming relocation. We take the time to understand your moving needs from your budget to your time requirements. One of our moving specialists will coordinate every aspect of your move, from packing and planning to loading and delivering. And if needed, you can always use our comprehensive storage services.
As a Bekins agent, our team can help you move anywhere in the world, whether you’re moving to another state or another country entirely.
We Can Work Directly with Human Resources
Our team of professionals can help coordinate with Human Resources to manager all upcoming corporate relocation needs including professional packing services, moving, and storage during the transition. We are here to help and when you work with us, you can rest assured that your employees are in good hands with every step of their move.
Concierge Service
American Moving will handle all of your employee's needs and provide the extra attention needed to make sure that the details outside of the move are handled too. We provide personalized service for each of our clients that includes a moving checklist to help facilitate even address changes and utility updates. Our goal is to provide a stress-free experience for your organization and for your entire team.
To learn more about our employee relocation services, contact us!
Moving to a new home can be both physically challenging and emotionally difficult. That's why we have our senior moving service. Whether you or a loved one is moving, you’ll find that American Moving, Interstate agent of Bekins offers a comprehensive range of senior moving services designed to ensure your move remains simple and stress-free from the beginning to the new beginning.
We’re experts in managing the stress of relocation
Whether it is moving from your home of 30 years or making the transition to a retirement community, our expert and courteous moving professionals will strive to make your senior moving experience a stress-free one.
Our insured and fully licensed movers will professionally move you with expertise, whether you are moving blocks away, or across the country. We also offer packing and unpacking services so all you need to relocate is yourself.
We’ll get the job done with care.
Like many of us, we find that lots of our senior customers struggle emotionally from saying goodbye to their long-time family home, loss of sentimental belongings and are sometimes anxious about the unknown physical challenges. At American Moving, Interstate agent for Bekins Van Lines, we’re the moving experts capable of respecting those difficulties of relocation and specialize in moves that need a sensitive approach can be emotional. Whether you are arranging a packing and moving service for your parents or downsizing from a large home we can help you move and store items for short or long periods when needed.
Let us relieve your packing and senior moving stress.
Knowing there are so many moving situations that can often be trying times for our customers, we live by our core values of teamwork, integrity, professionalism, and moving safely.
American Moving, Interstate agent for Bekins Van Lines provides individuals and families the emotional and physical assistance needed in making a change in living arrangements. Our goal is to move you professionally and removing any stress and emotional difficulty from the moving process.
Contact us today for a quote and we will move you.
