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NEW AGENT ANNOUNCEMENT Golden Rule Relocation, a locally-owned North Kansas City moving and storage company, recently signed with Bekins Van Lines’ agency network as a prime interstate agent, joining more than 150 Bekins agents across the country. The company was previously an independent agency but chose to align with Bekins to realize its potential in…
Moving Specialty Items, Moving Tips
Moving anything expensive or easily damaged? It’s important to protect those items. A protection plan while moving will help alleviate worry about your upcoming move, because you’ll be compensated if anything were to happen to your items. Moving every possession you own is a big deal. You want to make sure your items are protected…
NEW AGENT ANNOUNCEMENT Senior Moving Company, a locally-owned Farmers Branch moving and storage company, recently signed with Bekins Van Lines’ agency network as a prime interstate agent, joining more than 150 Bekins agents across the country. The company was previously an independent agency but chose to align with Bekins to offer its customers the benefit…
Packing How Tos, Preparing for Your Move
Keeping organized during a move isn’t easy. You’re packing up and transporting everything you own. It’s not surprising that, without proper preparation, things can easily get mixed up, lost or confused. There are a lot of ways to help yourself keep this from happening. You can enlist the help of a professional moving company. You…
Ironically, when people move, they often spend so much time thinking about how they’re going to protect their valuables during move-in that they forget about their flooring. Unfortunately, this can often come back to bite them. It’s all too easy to significantly damage your flooring by dragging, sliding or dropping something on it as you…
Moving Specialty Items, Packing How Tos
Packing liquids for a move requires a lot of foresight and preparation. How will you keep them from spilling? How do you know what you can safely transport yourself and what you can’t? What will you do if someone drinks your emergency moving day energy drinks and doesn’t tell you? We have the answers to…
Moving Specialty Items, Packing How Tos
One of the most stressful aspects of moving is worrying about your fragile possessions. Will they survive transport from one place to another? Will you open the boxes in your new home only to find everything you love busted? Are you going to find all your things ruined, eaten by goats or toppled over in…
Moving in with another person is a big deal. You’re connecting two or more separate lives in a very real way. Whether it’s a friend, family member, roommate or romantic partner, it’s hard to move in with someone without some anxiety. After all, how do you know they’re not a horrible roommate? How do you…
Relocating a business is hard. Convincing your employees to relocate may be even harder.Despite good reasons to relocate—a bigger office, loss of lease, a company shift—your employees may not feel enthusiastic about moving. Still, valuable employees are worth keeping, and we have strategies to get them on board. An effective plan avoids common relocation mistakes…
Moving Specialty Items, Moving Tips
When it comes to moving you have two choices: hiring movers or taking on the daunting task all on your own. If all you’re moving is three boxes of clothing, it might be easier to take the job into your own hands. If you’re moving three boxes of clothing and a hand-carved statue of a…