Getting ready to shift your home to a new city? Not sure how to schedule your move? Where to hire Packers and Movers companies or if you should do it yourself? Let me give you some important tips to help you how to schedule and do a stress free Packing and moving of your home in India.
Decide if you want to do it yourself or hire a Moving company?
Packing and moving can be done in two ways. One is to do it all yourself in that case you will be doing everything, from buying packing materials to packing all your household goods, find out labors and moving truck to get all your stuff loaded and moved. Arranged labor at the destination to unload your goods and so on. If you are shifting within the city or in the neighborhood, then you can do it yourself. But if you are shifting to a different city even 300 KMs or more, hiring a moving Company is a better choice
The other option is to hire a Local or national Moving company who can help you through the entire process and do a safe and hassle free Packing and Moving for you.
Although, the do it yourself method will cost you less, but it will be hard to manage it all specially if you are alone. Hiring a Moving company for packing and moving could be easy, but it will cost a little more than doing it yourself. I am going to talk about the later that is hiring a moving company and how to get best deal from them for your home shifting.
How to Hire a Moving Company
You can start by searching on google or asking your friends and office colleagues, they may know a moving company that they have used in the past or so. Find out a few moving companies at least five.
Give them a rough idea of all your household goods that is to be moved and ask them to email you a rough quotation, inclusive of taxes or any other extra costs etc
Review all these quotations and shortlist three moving companies out of it and ask them to come and survey your goods. Schedule a survey when you will have time to discuss and ask them to come one by one.
Once they visit your home, show them the material that is to be moved, and ask for accurate estimates. Also since you are meeting them face to face, you will be able to understand and know about them in detail. Ask for some client testimony, since how long they are in the business, if they have their own branch in the city where goods are to be moved, if they will offer a couple of days of free warehousing etc.
Do some background check, find out what others are saying about them on Google or on a moving companies review website to get better understanding about the company.
Now review all these quotations, and choose one out of these an schedule your packing and moving. I hope these tips help you get better deals for moving your home
