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Here is a comprehensive moving checklist to help ensure your stress-free move. We all know moving can be stressful especially when it means moving long-distance or international. We want to help you prepare so that your experience is a safe, successful move, especially with professional movers.
Moving checklist infographic
This relocation moving checklist provides timelines and moving tips to help you stay organized and stress-free throughout the whole process. Check out our infographic that contains some simple and smart tips to prepare you for moving day.
4-8 weeks before you move
- As soon as you know you are moving, reserve a moving company. If you need packing assistance, American Moving can also pack and unpack your house, apartment, or condo for you.
- Visit American Moving to purchase necessary moving boxes and packing supplies.
- Start to clean out closets, the garage, and attic and host a garage sale or donate your unwanted things to charity.
- Change your address online or get a change of address card from your local post office.
- Make a list and notify organizations of your change of address such as magazines, charge accounts, insurance companies, clubs, friends, and family.
- If you have school aged kids, arrange to transfer school records.
3 weeks before you move
- Decide if you would like professional packing assistance such as American Moving Professional packing service or if you will pack your cartons
- If you decided to pack yourself, start packing and labeling all the boxes
- Make a survival closet of the items you will need last out and first into your new home
- Compile all personal records
- Schedule to disconnect your utilities such as gas, electric, water, cable, and the internet after your move-out day.
- Schedule to connect all your utilities the day before your scheduled move-in day.
2 weeks before you move
- Plan to use all the food in your refrigerator and freezer. You can donate your non-perishables through Move for Hunger and we can help.
- Clear basement and attics completely and decide what to move.
- Cancel delivery services such as newspapers.
- Dispose of all flammables, cleaners, paints, aerosols, ammunition, etc.
- Drain the oil and gasoline from your lawn mower, and other power tools if they are to be moved
- Be sure that you have packed everything in advance.
1 week before your move
- Make sure that American Moving has your contact phone numbers for the day of the move
- Empty and clean your refrigerator and freezer, clean your stove, etc.
- Only use the household items that you’ll need on move in day, such as sheets, towels, a few pans and dishes. Make sure everything else is ready to be moved.
- Pack your suitcase and day of the move box with all necessary essentials to get you through the next few days in case you don’t get to unpacking right away.
Moving day
- Do one last walk-through once the van is loaded to make sure nothing was left in closets, basement, attic, cabinets, drawers, etc.
- Greet the movers at your new home and review the move with your American Moving team of experts
- Inspect your items as they are unloaded and note if there are any damaged items.
Finally, unpack and get settled into your new home.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Contact us for more information and request a quote today!
Thinking of donating your food when you move? We can help! American Moving & Storage proudly supports Move for Hunger, a non-profit doing just that. Book your next move with our professional movers and we will deliver your non-perishable food donations to the local food bank. It is as easy as that!
Your donation immediately helps to fight hunger and reduce food waste in your local community.
At American Moving, our team actively supports our community. One way we are doing that is through our community support of Move for Hunger. Often when people move, they have a larger number of canned goods and non-perishables that can be donated. Move for Hunger was started for just that reason. When you move with us, American Moving & Storage will help you donate your non-perishable food items and bring them to the local food bank as part of your move.
We are so invested in helping give back that our team members, John and Kio also participate in the Colfax 10 mile run and have raised over $1500 for Move For Hunger organization and counting.
When you move with us, you can trust we care. Simply let us know what you want to donate and we will support you.
How does it work?
- Set aside your unopened, non-perishable food items
- Use the Move for Hunger boxes to pack up your food and our crew will help deliver it to the local food pantry
- From there, the local food pantry will sort and deliver your donations to local families in need.
What to donate? Pasta, Sauce, Baby Food/ Formula, Dry Beans, Flour, Cereal, Oatmeal, Juice, Rice, Crackers, Cookies, Peanut Butter & Jelly. Canned Goods: vegetables, fruits, stews, soups, beans, tuna, meat.
Download the official American Moving, Interstate agent for Bekins and Move for Hunger pdf for more information or go to www.moveforhunger.org.
