Moving Yourself vs. Hiring Movers: Which Is the Best Choice for You?

If you are wondering what the full-service move is and how to move yourself, you would probably like to know how to make this tough decision. Let’s look at some opportunities you can take for moving.

1. Full-service move.

A full-service move is the right choice for those who are too busy to pack up their items and move it on their own. It’s also fit for those who have to move by flight. You can spend quality time with your friends and family while the full-service movers are carrying it out of your home. You do not need to do all the heavy lifting. Sure, it costs a lot of money. Still, you get what you pay for: the movers pack your stuff, load it onto the truck and drive it to your new place, unload it and even rebuild furniture that had to be disassembled for the trip. Maybe you will only be left to unpack the boxes at the new place. If your movers pack for you it will be done quicker. For an hourly rate, movers can pack everything — even the garbage, if you don’t just tell them otherwise. It will be done appropriately and you will not need to think and worry about all the packing materials. Your things will be safely secure to be moved. It will save you lots of  time so you can spend it on anything else more enjoyable. It will save your nerves too: experts aren’t kidding when they say it’s stressful to move. There will be good and bad memories that will pop up, and you will need to deal with all of them.

 

2. Pack on your own – movers do the rest.

You can get a partial moving service: if you are going to pack the things on your own while moving or you would like the professional packing crew to do it for you! If you are doing the packing step on your own, it will save you money. You’ve decided not to pay for a full-service move, and surely it will cut your expenses. You will check each thing from your staff and sort in details if you keep it, sell it or throw it away. You can order the stuff in each box to go anywhere you want. For example, according to its destined room. You take your own responsibility for anything that can happen to the items you are packing. If you decided not to spend on the additional cost of packing services, make sure you finish your part of the moving work before they come. The movers’ job is infinitely easier if things are completely ready to be put on the truck. Be aware that if they need to wait for you to finish packing, you will have to pay for their time.
 

3. Moving by Yourself.

The cheapest way to move across the country is to move by yourself.

You pack your own belongings, rent a moving truck, load it yourself, and drive it yourself across the country, towing your car behind you. Let’s see some expenses that you can have anyway while moving by yourself. Two people moving long-distance across the country for instance.

• An estimate for a rental truck plus a 4 wheel car carrier will cost about $1500.
• Movers that pack the truck, around $200.
• A hotel room for 1 night, additional nights staying with family and food along the way $400.
• Gas along the way about $300-600.

 

As we can see there are different solutions that’ll cut the expenses. Other options for a local or long distance move are less taxing on your wallet without taxing your back instead, and without forcing you to drive an extremely large moving rental truck thousands of miles either. You can actually put together a moving service with renting a portable storage container or space in a freight trailer and then hiring movers to do the heavy lifting.

Each moving story is unique and surely the factors that play heavy for one family may not for another. After all, it is you who knows the best way to get everything done perfectly on your own, and in a cheap way, or you would like to have full-service movers do the job for you, while you are spending your time on more important things!