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Originally Posted by DylanTodd
Hi,
My wife and I are starting to plan the logistics for our fall move to the Villages full time.
We have looked at the cost of various ways to do it but each method seems wildly expensive. Full service moving companies seem to quote $6000 to $10000, those u-pack pods are around $4000, and even a uhaul rental from New England was $3600.
Does anyone have a reliable company that they used to move long distance where they felt they got good value?
Is there anyone from New England moving down this fall/winter and should we split a moving truck to save some costs?
I know people say don't bring your stuff with you and just buy new, we are not even bringing that much furniture, probably 4 to 5 pieces of furniture at most but we have so many totes filled with clothes, sporting equipment, mementos from over the years so we don't want to downsize any further until we get into our new house.
Thanks in advance
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Our move was a roughly 24 hour drive. Wife does not drive. So I took three eight hour drives. Do you want to do that in a truck and then face unpacking?
Will your wife appreciate loading stuff onto a rented truck and then unloading after a three day drive?
Our adventure we hired pros. They hired whatever they could find on both ends.
From our sold home their people did not know that my large armoire comes apart.
How it go up the stairs on the way in 40 years ago. They tried to carry it down the stairs in one piece. Damaging both the furniture and the freshly painted painted walls and iron rails. That piece of furniture must have been haunted. On arrival in the villages, different people same company their guy dropped it into our brand new wall and punched a hole into the sheet rock 6-8 inches across.
I have a heavy woodworking table. It was delivered to our living-room. Different world view. It was perfect there. You do not need to bend to open boxes etc. We did not move our couches so plenty of room for it. Wife not happy. She tried to move it by herself.
When, I finished laughing it had to show her, I built it to come apart, all the pieces are numbered so it goes back together. The heaviest piece is the top solid oak butcher block with two vices on it. I had to call my neighbor wife, at about 110 lbs could not pick up the light end. Hum, I will bet she would have move the whole thing herself or die trying.