Talk of The Villages Florida - View Single Post - What do you wish you had not brought and what do you wish had brought down?

Laurawilcox · 03-30-2022, 07:42 AM

We just purchased a lot in DeLuna. Have been trying to purge things from our 4200, 4 car garage home. I can’t even say the “hundreds” of pounds that we have donated to schools and charities or sold so far.

However, we have custom furniture built years ago and other items that we love so I started pricing from Denver.

Everyone that I reached out to was incredibly responsive, I was surprised.

For the equivalent of a large truck equivalent to the largest UHaul, operated by local movers who drive with your stuff and then fly home you are about $15k. I didn’t trust the big carriers with the staffing issues many are having. Up to 1,200 per month storage which I thought was crazy.

For pod style we learned Pods is the most expensive, stores outside and has minimal hooks inside. We are looking at Zippy Shell a sister of Rat Pack, they have AAA and ARP discounts. With loading and unloading of two pods we would be at around 9.5k. I believe we will end up subtracting their labor and booking my own (see below). They send an agreement that locks down the estimate with no down payment and can be cancelled up to 10 days in advance at no penalty. Storage of pods if you need is 256 each and you don’t have to pay an addition labor cost because stuff is not removed from the pods.

UHaul for the 26 foot truck and car trailer we could be at 4K. Storage 125-200 per month and you need extra labor to unload the truck.

Also there are great loading and unloading companies on the websites of many of the pod delivery services. We also looked at Yelp and reached out to only teams with hundreds of positive ratings. Big difference in service levels. Ask them how they will treat your favorite piece, whatever that is, and if they will break down things like your bed frame if needed, and you will quickly see the difference. They average from 65-160 per hour for two men. Most say 4 hours on average for Pod, if you are ready to go. That is true on both ends. In our mind that price is well worth us not packing the pod for the space they know how to optimize that we do not.