Helpful packing tips for your next move
Let’s be honest, no one likes moving. It always ends up being a nightmare of confusion and way too much work. Plus, there is that added displeasure of realizing that you are leaving the place you have come to call your home. However, there are things that can be done to smooth the hassle and ensure an efficient and lower stress process. The following moving tips should help reduce this discomfort and make you look at your next move in a whole new light.
The first step and one of the best and most important moving tips is to make a packing checklist. This list should include an inventory list, packing supplies, truck rental, and arrangements for utilities to be turned off and mail forwarded. This will keep you organized and aware of what you have, where it is located and what else must be accomplished so nothing is forgotten or left to the last minute.
Strongly consider renting a self-storage unit during the duration of your move. Storage facilities provide a secure place for your belongings, namely those belongings that you don’t know exactly where to put yet in your new home. Add storage reservations to your checklist to remind yourself to confirm those reservations.
Once you’ve done the legwork of locating a secure storage area for your belongings, it’s time to consider a few other important packing tips:
- Investigate the storage size. Sometimes people misjudge just how big or small an area is by just reading the measurements off the website. Picture your belongings not as they are in your home right now, but as they will be once they are disassembled and stacked in boxes.
- Buy top-of-the-line packing supplies designed specifically for moving. Check and see if your storage facility sells packing supplies, or purchase them through general retailers.
- Put labels on everything you plan on storing in your unit. Storage labels help you find the boxes you will need quickly. This type of storage organization will also help with your packing checklist creation.
- Be sure to place the items you think will be accessed more regularly in the front so that you don’t have to go digging through all your other belongings just to get to one thing. Also, make sure everything is clean and in good condition before placing it in storage.
- Cotton or wool blankets might provide the extra insulation needed in colder climates because sometimes even “climate-controlled” units may not provide the temperature control you need.
From there, moving tips should also include a moving-in checklist. This list will allow you to check all the items from your inventory list that have arrived. It will also make it easier to keep track of which items you plan to keep and which items you want to place in self-storage while you redecorate the new house.
This article was written by Matt Schexnayder. Matt is on the SpareFoot marketing team and writes for the SpareFoot blog. SpareFoot is the largest online marketplace for self-storage with more than 5,000 self-storage facilities listed nationwide. SpareFoot offers consumers the most complete comparison shopping experience in the storage industry and has been a big part of the national moving and storage industry for over 3 years.
Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 06:10PM 
From 1/29/2011 through 1/29/2012, 84 single family and townhomes sold in the downtown area of Savannah. In real estate, we call this Area 1 and it's approxiamtely from Gaston Street to River Street. The median sales price during the last twelve months was $305,000. The median Sales Price per Square Foot was $162.55. The median days on market before being sold was 130, and sellers were getting on average 93% of the asking price.
