Tips for moving on a budget

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By Saul Rosenthal

Special to The PREVIEW

Q: I need some advice on budget-friendly ways I can move my belongings to our new home.

There is a lot to consider when you’re moving into a new home. And while we often consider moving steps like packing and unpacking to be the only major things standing in the way of fully settling in, it’s actually the things that you do after moving into a new home that make the biggest difference. Getting associated with your house, learning how it functions, and prioritizing what projects you want to tackle is part and parcel of taking on your role as a homeowner—and it’s better to do it all right when you move in, instead of waiting and just assuming you’ll figure it all out later on.

When you buy a home, you’ll have a host of new costs to think about, including a mortgage, homeowners insurance, property taxes, maintenance and repairs. However, it’s the less-obvious costs of moving that tend to take new homeowners by surprise once they relocate. Before you start unrolling the packing tape.

Speaking of cost-reduction techniques when moving home, finding cheap local movers or hiring cheap cross country movers is the best option you have to move to another home for less money, continue reading online at the link. That’s right, cheap moving companies do exist – cheap as in affordable, of course, not low-quality, and your ultimate mission is to locate, research and hire the services of such a low-cost yet reliable moving company.

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