Hi everyone, Lance Mohr. And if you're relocating to Tampa, Florida you're gonna
love this video. I'm going to show you how you could save thousands of dollars
in moving costs when relocating. I know when my wife and I moved here, I did a
lot of research and I ended up saving over seventy percent on my moving costs
and that's what I'm going to show you.
So when my wife and I moved from Texas to Florida, I talked to all the big
companies. I talked to North American, United, Mayflower... And I found out two things:
number one, they were very expensive. I was shocked because I didn't have a real
huge house and I'm not a packrat. I don't have a lot of stuff to take with me, but
still they were between $7,500 and $8,500.
The other problem I had, is they gave me a date range when our belongings would
arrive. And it wasn't a little range, basically they said "Okay well it's
going to take us X amount of days to get there and then it will arrive
sometime between Tuesday and Saturday.'' and I asked them, I said, "Well what am I gonna do?
We're just gonna sit in a motel and wait for you guys day after day? Can we
communicate?" and you know it was just a mess. The communication was horrible, so I thought
to myself there's gotta be a better way to do this. There's not only got to be a
better way, there's got to be a cheaper way. So I started doing my research, and I
came across a website- a company called Upack.com and what you basically do
you're gonna rent space in an ABF truck and you might never have heard of
Upack, or you might never heard of ABF trucks, but I'm sure, here's a picture of
them- you've seen them all over the highway because they're everywhere.
They're one of the largest moving companies for people in the country... but
they just don't do a lot of advertising like all these other
companies do. So what happens is this. Upack drops off the ABF truck to your home. You
load the truck, you call Upack and let them know you're ready for the pickup,
they come and pick up the truck, and then drop it off at your new address. Then you
simply unload the truck and you call them up and they pick up the truck again.
It's really very easy and you have
you could have a lot of really good communication with them, I'll go over the
communication aspect in a little bit and what you need to do to make sure it's a
smooth transition for you. So when you're looking at
picking movers, people to actually load the truck and unload the truck, you
have a few resources and certainly if you know of anybody, you could use them
I know you may know of people where you're at, but maybe not where you're
going. You could go on Angie's List as a good source... Personally what I did is I went
to U-haul. I think they have a fantastic site. This is U-haul's website right now,
a couple days ago, but if you go in the lower right hand corner, you'll see
it says moving labors.
Just click that and then you just simply go in and you pick your helpers.
Now I think it's easier just to do one zip code a time, so you put your zip code
in and then it's gonna take you to some choices. And example, this is in Tampa... You
can see there's a whole bunch of them in the upper right hand corner. You could
sort results by overall performance... There's a lot of different ways and It'll
just list a bunch of different companies and it will say what services
they provide, loading/unloading, packing/unpacking... just all that stuff. You could
hire by the hour, you could hire a two-person crew, a three-person crew, a
four-person crew... A whole bunch of stuff and it was really great.
This is what I did and I found it worked fantastically for me, both in the loading and
unloading aspects. So let's go over some tips. Always ask the movers what's
included in the price. And I'm not talking Upack, I'm talking more of the
moving companies. The packing is relatively easy because
when you're having people load and your packing everything up, they'll come
over and give you a price and you pack it, Upack will drop off
the truck, if its overnight- you just put a padlock on there, they'll cut the
padlock off when they need to get it off.
Not a big deal. And again you're just simply renting space and just so you
know, they put a barrier in so if they're picking up someone else's stuff maybe in
Atlanta, Georgia there's going to be a barrier so they cannot get to your stuff
and pick through it, just so you know that. You could ask them these questions again
I'm not recommending them I'm just telling you what I did. But make sure you
get everything in writing.
Make sure the moving company's who are loading/unloading have the
proper insurance. Rent lots of moving blankets from Uhaul. The moving companies
aren't going to be supplying the blankets and you're going to most likely
be using one moving company to move you to pack you up and another one to unpack
you, so in my opinion, it's better to have too many blankets than too few.
You might spend $50 on blanket rentals or $150
but it's worth the weight in gold. And then when you get to where
you're going just find the Uhaul place and drop them off. And stay in constant
communication with Upack and the movers. And I'm talking about the
companies that are unloading your belongings. So what will happen,
example, with my wife and I, when we were moving... We stayed in constant contact.
They basically said it's gonna take them 4 to 6 days.. Actually I think it was 3
to 6 days to get where we're going, but once they picked it up, they said it
would probably be 3 to 5 days and we had a really good idea so the
company who was unloading us know this, and then as we got closer to that, they
really narrowed it down. It was very easy to communicate with Upack, they were very
good. We kept in constant communication with the company who was unloading us
because they understand this. They get it. You're not you're not just gonna have
someone drop off your stuff at a defined time, so the closer we got, we kept in
communication with everybody and basically Upack dropped
the truck off at eleven in the morning, the packers came out and the company came
out and unloaded us around one o'clock.. And we were good to go by that day, it went
really smooth. So just keep in constant communication. Here's in a nutshell.
We got a quote from $7,500 to $8,500 with the big companies. We paid about $2,000.
This included the Upack truck, the movers,
loading/unloading, and tips to them (because I'm always an advocate for
tipping). And we saved over seventy percent we paid under two thousand
dollars for all this, and the beauty is, we didn't have to stay in a hotel
waiting for our stuff to arrive for days like the big moving companies wanted us
to do. And we basically got there, I think we stayed in a hotel one night, got up
the next day, and we were in our place & in our bed that night. So it worked out
really convenient for us.
Alright, so I hope you enjoyed that video. If you have any questions whatsoever
about the Tampa area, the different cities, communities, subdivisions, builders...
Anything to do about the property taxes, anything to do about real estate..
Please give me a call. Either call me above, contact me, I'll put my information
below. Check out my YouTube videos to the right and also check out my website to
the right. It was built for you. People who are relocating, that's why I
designed it and I designed it specifically for people who are
relocating. It has tons of great information: school reports, crime reports,
relocation information, it goes over what CDD fees are, how property taxes work.. It
just has a lot of great information. Contact me if you have any
questions. I would love to help you and your family. Have a great day and
I wish you the best of luck.