[Nucky]

Sell the majority of your stuff and bring only the garbage you can't live without in a small POD. Forget about PACK RAT. I used PODS 20 plus time locally in JERSEY and it was a pleasure. One time I used PACK MY Rat to move to The Villages and it was a NIGHTMARE.

Buy whatever you can replace new once you get here. Between everyone on this forum, we all can direct you to a variety of places to start over fresh and new in quality or cheapo, your choice.

Welcome, your gonna love it here. I think we are coming up on 8 years and I still can't believe we're here, its the greatest.

[badkarma318]

The Villages offers a relocation service: The Villages - Florida's Friendliest Active Adult 55+ Retirement Community

[me4vt]

Originally Posted by bsloan1960

quoted $7,000 to move approx 1200 square feet from mass. To tv by a moving company. A google search says to expect to pay $7-8,000 so this about right. I'm aware of pods and pack rat but i don't want to get bombarded by emails and phone calls if i use their online quote tool.

So with the 1200 square feet and the $7,000 in mind, can anyone give me an idea of how much i will save using pods or pack rat? Also- what would it cost to hire people to load and unload the container.

Thanks!

abf

[westernrider75]

Originally Posted by asianthree

Be careful on getting rid of everything as some tell you. First supply chain is still sketchy for furniture, last thing you want to do is have to buy stuff because it’s available and not like it. Some furniture is Available, but 80% of what we needed was back ordered 4-6 months. Plus if I am spending $5000 on one room of furniture I need to love it.

A couch, loveseat and chair, (leather) will be $11,000. So if there is room bring everything, then get rid of when you find something else. People are always looking for furniture to put in rentals.

We brought two bedroom set, all of our side tables, dining set. Then we filled the pod with stuff we may or not need, but you need to fill completely to keep from shifting. Since your weight isn’t an issue, we brought more than we originally thought.
Total move midsize pod was $2,485 from Mid MI, in 6/2022. We loaded, and unloaded ourselves, but pods had list of people to use.

Best part of dining set that we were not going to bring, we sold here for $1100. So for us move became really cheap.

We bought an entire new set of living room furniture (sofa and 2 chairs, leather with power recliners) end tables, 4 bedside tables and large table for the living room tv for less than $6,000 at Rooms for More when we moved here on 2020. Moving our old stuff from Pennsylvania would have cost as much. We moved only what we absolutely wanted and needed, bought the rest and are way ahead with less heavy moving necessary.

[me4vt]

Originally Posted by JohnN

Back in 2012, mind you. I used a POD.
I hired a couple local guys and it was a couple/few hundred bucks for the day.
I brought the very fragile small things and keepsakes in the car.
The POD was $2,ooo- $2,500 , I think, at the time, not sure what they run now.
Another couple guys and couple hundred dollars to unload it.

Total cost was about $3K

$7,000 is probably about right for a full service move.
Best wishes.

Pre COVID

[banjobob]

So many villagers have lamented that it was foolish to move the entire home goods to the Villages. We are among those, for the most part the homes here are smaller have less storage space. Really decide what items you really want to keep and pay tp move here.

[buster21]

We sold everything in Ohio and rented two vans. I drove one, hubby the other. They were filled to the max! Throw in Chihuahua for good luck! Ended up giving my brand new bulky area rugs taking up room in the van to my real estate agent. Glad we just brought the basics because my Ohio decor wouldn’t fit in FLA. Safe travels.

[buster21]

Oops! Sorry forgot to add that we moved into a furnished rental in Spanish Springs for a year. We didn’t need furniture.

[JoelJohnson]

We used ABT. They rent out part of a trailer (we only used about 10-15 feet). That was in 2015. They dropped the trailer off at our house and we hired The Village Movers to unload it. I forget the cost, but it would much more now anyway.

[RICH1]

and who said , Raising the Minimum Wage won’t affect me! Why bring Yankee furniture to Florida? It won’t look right down here.. Habitat for Humanity will pickup your old stuff & set you Free

[mdmurrell]

We moved in July 2022 from Springfield Missouri to TV and it cost us less than $2600. Our house was 3400 square feet and we moved everything in one big van load with North American Van Lines. We had to wait a couple of weeks for the local moving company to have a van headed down this way. However, the movers were extremely well organized, very professional and they didn't break anything. We could not have been more satisfied. Hope this is helpful.
Michael Murrell, Marsh Bend.

[C4Boston]

Contact Rainbow Movers in Franklin, MA. Our move was under 5,000 but we did donate all dark colored furniture that we all love in NE prior to the move and bought new down here. Part of your fee is based on weight and space.

[bncuhler@verizon.net]

We paid that for the same size house in 2020. Gas was a lot cheaper then!

[Kevinwitgen@yahoo.com]

I agree completely. I brought all I kept in one trip in my large suv. Although I know that is not the question, maybe you could part with most things and rent a U Haul trailer.

[TCRSO]

We sold everything before moving. We were able to completely furnish a 3BR designer for around $12,000.