Great Pointers For When You Have To Move Next

Moving to a new home, whether it’s your primary residence or a 2nd home, can be a massive task. If you approach it better organized it is going to be less complicated. Be ready to keep tallies of what is in each box. When packing a box – have pen and pad handy and write down everything that is placed in the box. Give the box a number (write it on top and all 4 sides) and give the list the same number. This makes it simple once the move is done to understand what’s where, so you can unpack in an appropriate way. Make efforts to keep the lists together in a safe place so that you can refer back to it until the last box is emptied.

Before you start to pack ensure you have enough “moving” supplies on hand. You will obviously need a lot of boxes. Different sized boxes are good too so you can pack smaller things into smaller boxes. Try to not get boxes that are too big unless you want them for 1 or 2 “large” items like table lamps, for example. If you have got a enormous box you could be tempted to over stuff it and doing that would cause the contents to break or could cause the box to be too heavy to pick up and move.

Have papers to wrap breakables. You may use packing paper, bubble wrap and tissue paper or even towels and little blankets to help cushion and wrap breakables. Have plenty of tape to tape the boxes shut. Consider using plastic containers for some items such as items that may spill or leak.

Once your boxes are packed – colour coordinate them with coloured stickers to match with rooms in the house. For instance, yellow may be kitchen, green living room, etc. That way when the movers get the boxes to your new place you can tell them to put certain colored boxes to the right rooms. You can even post signs in each room: “Yellow – Kitchen”, etc, to help to get the boxes to the correct rooms.

Use sturdy shopping bags and those giant zip-loc bags to pack some things. This sort of bag is nice to pack stuff like clothing, linens and blankets. These things will go simply in the trunk and back seat of the cars. Be sure to add the colour stickers with a number so you’ll know which rooms they need to be in – and add them to the list so you’ll know what is in them.

Ken Schmidt is a real estate agent in Mesa Arizona and specializes in Scottsdale real estate and Red Mountain Ranch property.