Just heard from our agent, offer was accepted, we move in 7-2-26, just in time to light some fireworks off at the new place!
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Thanks. Now we get to deal with the headache of the well testing positive for total coliform. I'm certain its just from sitting stagnant for a couple months, but time is of the essence with closing being 3 weeks away, so hoping it gets sorted out QUICKLY.
its always something. Our purchase went smooth, the sale of our old home was not so smooth. the buyer was an A** H*** and made a stink about the sewer line and it cost us 5K. Of course he never "fixed" it because it was basically fine.
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Better Total Coliform than E. coli! If the well casing is intact and all looks good otherwise, well disinfection is pretty straightforward. Good luck!
Congrats on the move! Make sure all your utilities are set before the holiday weekend. Our last house we closed on Friday before 4th of July. Gas Co had removed the propane regulator on the tank, which we used for hot water. And the office was closed for the weekend. They could have come out for an emergency service call, but that was $$$. Moving in July with only cold showers was a major pita.
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That's impressively fast! It took us 14 months after I retired to clean out a too-big, too-cluttered house in NJ, sell, donate, or pack everything in it, find our new home, and move 2700 miles to North Idaho. We were working like mad on the project hat whole time. I think of it as our lost year.
Best of luck with the move, happy to hear you are much more efficient than we were!
I remember our count down well. we had 4 weeks, it was a full time job to pack and pitch. We had 17 years of crap in the house. found unopened boxes 17 years old. Donated an insane amount of stuff.
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Yeah, during our cleanout, I used to joke that I was expecting Goodwill to slap us with a restraining order.
My wife has spent a month packing up our kids crap to try to get ready for a house sale and move. Yeah it isn't happening this year.
I know in a few years we'll be moving. Will have to figure out how to move 40 years of hoarding!
Faster than we had planned, but somehow things will work out. House went on the market, had an offer 3 days later $10k over asking with inspection waived...couldn't pass that up but the buyer wants to close in 30 days. Luckily the house we offered on accepted and is empty so closings worked out, its just the logistics now of getting packed and ready for a 1200 mile move.
Not sure what your moving plan is but, we rented a couple 26 ft penske trucks and hired loaders and unloaders (different group at each site-these were moving companies) and drove ourselves. Saved a ton. the loading and unloading was only a few hundred bucks and they did both ends in less than 5 hours. I would do that process again if I had to move again.
Caught this late, well, ignored it because it was too big to read at the time, but congrats on the new place! That's gotta be exciting!
As to moving, at work I handle a good bit of LTL trucking, and I am always seeing emails saying they also handle moving options for long distance. Many of the companies have at least some options for moves like yours where they supply the trailer, you load, and they take it away and drop it. Much like the PODS idea, just using a trailer and a liftgate or stairs. I've never looked into it, and the PODS at ground level would be nice for load/unload. But it's another option to check out. For instance, odmove.com is Old Dominion, one of the better (however, not cheaper) Carriers. But, in my decade of dealing with them, there's never been a claim. That is unheard of in trucking... I think ABF and FedEx Freight also do something similar. It'll be more the bigger carriers due to needing the resources to have a trailer not in motion all the time, but you might find it to be the cheapest option.
Good luck with the move!
As to moving, at work I handle a good bit of LTL trucking, and I am always seeing emails saying they also handle moving options for long distance. Many of the companies have at least some options for moves like yours where they supply the trailer, you load, and they take it away and drop it. Much like the PODS idea, just using a trailer and a liftgate or stairs. I've never looked into it, and the PODS at ground level would be nice for load/unload. But it's another option to check out. For instance, odmove.com is Old Dominion, one of the better (however, not cheaper) Carriers. But, in my decade of dealing with them, there's never been a claim. That is unheard of in trucking... I think ABF and FedEx Freight also do something similar. It'll be more the bigger carriers due to needing the resources to have a trailer not in motion all the time, but you might find it to be the cheapest option.
Good luck with the move!
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That's probably the sweet spot for a small to medium size move. Or maybe the PODS option, I only briefly looked into that.
We had a big enough move that we knew we'd be mostly filling a semi, if we did get it to fit in a pair of big rental trucks, no way was my wife going to drive one (plus we had two cars to bring), and with 2700 miles between NJ and Idaho, making multiple trips wasn't an option.
The tab for a pro move, with us packing everything, would have bought a nice, new SUV. Partly due to volume of stuff, partly due to distance, partly because they couldn't get the semi into our little cul-de-sac, and so had to make 3 or 4 trips over 2 days with a box truck, to get everything to the movers warehouse where they could load it onto the big truck.
If you do a pro move--and avoid it if you can--get the maximum insurance. Base coverage is something like 60 cents a pound, and that won't go far if anything expensive gets broken. Pack well, take lots of pictures, because if you do self-pack, they'll try to blame anything broken on you.
Pro movers won't/can't take a lot of things. Anything liquid. Compressed gasses, which includes spray paint, fire extinguishers, propane containers, etc. Guns, ammo, reloading components. I had to rent a fair size u-haul and tow it cross country just to carry the things the movers wouldn't.
We had an unusually bad experience, in that the crew chief for loading in NJ had what was apparently a mental breakdown of some kind. He was intentionally damaging things going into the truck. Breaking the unbreakable, slashing furniture, and selectively targeting boxes marked 'fragile'. We only caught him at it late on the second day, immediately notified the local moving office, then notified corporate as soon as the stuff was unloaded in Idaho and we could fully assess the damage. Their Large Claims adjuster was assigned to our case; it took us 9 months to check and document everything. The damage claim form ran 4 pages, single spaced, with many, many, many pages of supporting photos.
Ultimately, they paid out reasonably well. I think we were under compensated, on average, for all of the broken stuff in boxes and some of my standalone woodshop machines, but they came through on the furniture. I don't know what that cost them, but 14 pieces of furniture were picked up by a highly-regarded restoration company, repaired, and refinished. They did a great job on the furniture.
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