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There are several choices when you’re making a move to a new house, apartment of office, and each has its pros and cons. The choices we will look at are: Using your own vehicle making several trips. Using the vehicles of several friends resulting in fewer trips. Renting a trailer or box truck and loading and unloading it yourself. Hiring professionals to do the heavy lifting and driving for you.
The cheapest, yet most stressful choice is using your own vehicle to make the move. This means that not only have you done all the packing, and then the unpacking of the boxes, but you will be doing multiple trips of loading and unloading your vehicle. While doing this same type of move with several friends and their vehicles, it is still rather stressful, but the load is spread over several people thus eliminating some of the stress from you. Another con for either of these choices is that if you don’t hav
Renting a trailer for your car or a box truck is a great alternative to using just your own vehicle. While there is an additional cost, it is minimal and in most cases renting one for a day or two is about the cost of a tank of gas for most cars. The advantages to doing this is you can most often make one single trip, there will be no problems moving large pieces of furniture, and if you can gather a bunch of friends loading and unloading can go quickly. There are some drawbacks of course, you will need to