The Low-Cost DIY Moving Alternative

While MoveBuilder offers great full-service moving options – helping with any combination of packing, loading and unloading – our sister service, U-Pack Moving^®, also offers a low-cost option for customers who are willing and able to do their own packing, loading and unloading. It’s a huge money-saver, and a service customers call an “easy” alternative to renting a truck and driving it yourself.

Here’s how it works: U-Pack drops an empty moving trailer or ReloCube to your home and gives you up to three business days to load it. Once it’s loaded, they’ll pick it up and drive it to your new home (transit times average 2-5 business days). Once it arrives at your new home, you&r...
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Finding Quality Movers

Finding Quality Movers
What's one of the hardest parts of planning a move? Finding quality movers! This decision can be especially tough if you're moving for the first time— how do you know what to look for? Luckily, there are many steps you can take to ensure your moving company will be both cost efficient and reliable.

• Do a little research. Check a few online review sites to see what previous customers have to say about your potential moving company. Quality movers will have an overall positive rating with genuine feedback from satisfied users.
• Reminder: a friendly and helpful sales representative speaks volumes. As the face of the moving company, your move coordinator should be both pleasant and knowledgeable. He/she should be readily able to answer any q...
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How to Find a Reputable Relocation Company

When you need to move, it may seem like a difficult task to find a reputable relocation company. But there is no need to stress. If you follow a few easy tips, the process can be quite simple. 

Search Online
A good place to begin your search is online. With this powerful resource you should be able to find a reputable relocation company. You may want to visit a couple of websites to assist in narrowing your options. They are www.movingscam.com and www.epinions.com . These consumer based websites will allow you to research the experiences of other customers and gather valuable feedback on many choices.

Pick up Your Phone Book
Almost every home has one or more, so don't overlook this information tool. Your local phone book can be a good place to fi...
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How moving container services work

MoveBuilder's Moving Container Services
It may come as no surprise that all moving container services operate a little differently, but the concept is the same for most…The moving container is delivered to your location for loading, then it's picked up and driven to your new location for unloading.  Usually it's the details like equipment size, transit time and cost that differ.

So, let's talk a little about how MoveBuilder moving container services work:

First, MoveBuilder offers two type of moving containers:  ReloCubes and moving trailers— all equipment owned and operated by ABF Freight System, Inc. 

The trailers are 28 ft. x 8 ft. x 9 ft. (lwh) and hold the contents of an average-sized 3-4 bedroom home. You pay only for the space you use in the moving trailer. ReloCube moving containers are 6 ft. x ...
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Compare Prices for Moving Trucks

My husband is obsessed with his iPhone®. It's a fact. But I'm kind of glad (emphasis on "kind of") because he found a snazzy app called RedLaser 2.2.  If you don't have it, you should. It's a real-time scanner that reads a barcode on any product and instantly compares prices. Awesome. So, when I'm at a local store and find a product that I LOVE, but it's a little on the expensive side, I can check to see if there's a better deal at another store. LOVE.IT.

Wouldn't it be cool if there were an app like that for services like moving?  If you've been researching moving companies long, you've seen that moving experts advise that you always compare prices for moving trucks before you choose one. And that's excellent advice.  Just be aware that when you're comparing prices for movin...
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