For those of you who need to move across the country to go to dental school (CA to PA for me personally), how are you planning on financing the move? Credit cards? Loans? Savings? Any thoughts?
Financing Relocation
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I'll be moving my family18 hours. We are going to set aside our tax return and hopefully add to it over the coming months. That should finance our move and a couple months rent until student loans kick in.
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At some of the schools they will factor into your COA a relocation expense. I'm sure they would be willing to increase it to cover someone who has to move further. But I'm guessing it's a reimbursement type thing, so you'd need to cover it with credit cards or something initially.
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Are you moving a family or just yourself? If its just you, have a hitch installed on your vehicle and rent a small enclosed trailer from U-haul (one-way rental on a small trailer should be less than $200). Liquor stores are a great source for sturdy boxes & use newspaper to wrap up your stuff.
U-haul + free boxes + newspaper = Cheap move
Or you can spend a fortune...
My family moved about nine hours away from our hometown six years ago. The move was paid for by my husband's employer. We moved an 1800sf house and a shed full of my husband's junk. We used a national company who packed, loaded, stored for 2 months (at our request), and unloaded. The cost was around $10,000.
U-haul + free boxes + newspaper = Cheap move
Or you can spend a fortune...
My family moved about nine hours away from our hometown six years ago. The move was paid for by my husband's employer. We moved an 1800sf house and a shed full of my husband's junk. We used a national company who packed, loaded, stored for 2 months (at our request), and unloaded. The cost was around $10,000.
Yeah, those storage companies like PODS are really expensive. U-Haul trucks however, are notorious for being badly maintained so I would be careful. A U-haul trailer attached to your own vehicle doesn't sound too bad though.
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Hi - I'm a long-time unpaid volunteer on the consumer advocacy website www.movingscam.com - I got interested in protecting consumers from moving scams while helping my son move for residency in 2005. Unfortunately, there are a lot of moving companies out there who will give you a low price and then raise it once they have a deposit and your things are on the truck. To help people find alternatives, I last posted on here a few years back telling people about the do-it-yourself companies ABF U-Pack at www.upack.com and Broadway Express at www.broadwayexpress.net and I still like those companies, but there are other good options now.
First of all, with regard to U-Haul, I agree with the person posting above. The consensus of customers posting on MovingScam.com is that if you're going to use a rental truck, Penske is a much more reliable option. See this review thread - http://www.movingscam.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2060 The one thing that does seem valuable about U-Haul is their affiliated site at www.movinghelp.com that lists loading and unloading help. People who chose a company that's highly rated there have found that things usually worked out well.
Second, there is now an excellent full-service independent company called Moovers Inc. at www.mooversinc.com that has great reviews on MovingScam and elsewhere. Here is their review thread - http://www.movingscam.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4655 Recently Moovers has been giving people quotes for full-service moves that are actually comparable in price to quotes from U-Pack where you would have to do all the work or hire loading and unloading labor. Moovers understands the needs of health professionals and their typically smallish moves, and they operate cross-country.
If you live in the Bay Area or near New York City where Moovers Inc. has offices, they can send someone out to give you an in-residence estimate of what it would cost to move your things; if not, they will email you an inventory list to fill out and will then give you a Guaranteed Not to Exceed price based on that list. So far, reviews show that Moovers has always honored that price, and if the weight of the items is less than the estimated weight, they actually give the customer a refund.
Although this thread is a month old, I just saw it and thought I would mention these options. Also, I invite people to come over to MovingScam.com and browse the Message Board and the Super List to see what people are posting about moving companies in various areas of the country. If you register on the site (it's simple and free), you can also post questions and get personal advice about topics related to moving.
First of all, with regard to U-Haul, I agree with the person posting above. The consensus of customers posting on MovingScam.com is that if you're going to use a rental truck, Penske is a much more reliable option. See this review thread - http://www.movingscam.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2060 The one thing that does seem valuable about U-Haul is their affiliated site at www.movinghelp.com that lists loading and unloading help. People who chose a company that's highly rated there have found that things usually worked out well.
Second, there is now an excellent full-service independent company called Moovers Inc. at www.mooversinc.com that has great reviews on MovingScam and elsewhere. Here is their review thread - http://www.movingscam.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4655 Recently Moovers has been giving people quotes for full-service moves that are actually comparable in price to quotes from U-Pack where you would have to do all the work or hire loading and unloading labor. Moovers understands the needs of health professionals and their typically smallish moves, and they operate cross-country.
If you live in the Bay Area or near New York City where Moovers Inc. has offices, they can send someone out to give you an in-residence estimate of what it would cost to move your things; if not, they will email you an inventory list to fill out and will then give you a Guaranteed Not to Exceed price based on that list. So far, reviews show that Moovers has always honored that price, and if the weight of the items is less than the estimated weight, they actually give the customer a refund.
Although this thread is a month old, I just saw it and thought I would mention these options. Also, I invite people to come over to MovingScam.com and browse the Message Board and the Super List to see what people are posting about moving companies in various areas of the country. If you register on the site (it's simple and free), you can also post questions and get personal advice about topics related to moving.
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