MOVING TIPS

Great ways to get a whole home clean you'll love to live in

Moving? Planning Ahead Is the Key to Success

Moving to a new home can be an exciting fresh start in your life. But it can also be confusing, expensive and nerve-wracking. In fact, studies have shown that moving is one of the most stressful events in life. There are so many decisions to make and details to remember, you may wish you could wave a magic wand and you and your household would be magically whisked to your new location. You probably don’t have a magic wand, but you do have the next best thing: a planning notebook and pencil. It’s never too early to start planning your move, and these organization tips will help.

Packing to Move? Clean and Declutter As You Go

Now that you're ready to begin packing, incorporate two essential goals into your work: cleaning and reducing clutter. Think of it as a way of ensuring that when you get to your new home, your unpacking experience will be easier and so much more pleasant.

When Moving, Get Organized and Pack Smart

The most difficult part of any move is organizing and packing your belongings. Last-minute packing can lead to lost and broken items, surcharges from the moving company and chaos at your destination. To make sure you've packed for an efficient, economical move, follow these useful tips.

Eight Weeks Before Your Move? Here’s Your Must-Do Checklist

Professional movers advise leaving at least eight weeks to plan your move. Make sure you have plenty of time to do all the planning and clean-up for your move by creating a task list for each week. Start now, on Week 8, with these to-do items

Moving Out? Say Goodbye to a Freshly Clean Home

If you are in the midst of moving to a new home, your focus will most likely be on your destination-where you're going, not where you're leaving. You look forward to the feeling of "clean" and "fresh" you'll get when you're settled in your new place. You're not paying much attention to the old homestead, with its all-too-familiar stains, spots, and smears. You hardly even see them anymore, but you can be sure that landlords, brokers and potential buyers will notice.

Before You Move In: Make Your New Home Spotless

One of the nicest things about moving is the opportunity it gives us to start fresh and clean. Fresh paint, perhaps;freshly organized, stored and sorted possessions; and clean floors, walls, windows, and cabinets. Even the air seems to smell better without the dust and debris of our daily lives. But that clean feeling doesn't just happen: especially if you are moving into a newly-constructed home, you'll need to pre-clean it before the moving van arrives.

10 Ways to Make Your Home Look Fresh and Clean

You've got plenty of reasons to want a clean and fresh home: you are preparing to sell or rent your home; you are moving into a rental or previously occupied place; You're not moving, but it's been a while since your home was thoroughly cleaned; you have children; you have pets.

Six Weeks Before Your Move? Here’s Your Must-Do Checklist.

Only six weeks left? Take care of those chores with longer lead times and get organized for tasks that are close to the finish line. You've probably begun making lists for packing and cleaning; gathering important information; and thinking strategically about what to do and when to do it.