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After receiving generous monetary gifts from family and friends for your wedding, you’ve decided to buy your first home.  This should be a piece of cake, you and your new spouse agree because you believe you have just enough for a hefty down payment and can afford monthly mortgage payments.  With a sizable amount, you must not squander your newfound cache of cash, so read about mistakes first-time homebuyers should avoid before buying your dream home. Ignoring Your Budget Before embarking on house hunting, carefully calculate your budget, tucking in…

Marital bliss in planning your wedding and honeymoon insulates you from real-life marriage, offering lifetime romantic memories.  Unfortunately, one thing you won’t forget is the bills you’ll need to pay for events you wouldn’t trade for the world.  When you start watching bills accumulate, realize that beginning your life together means watching your budget, especially if you want to buy your first home. FlatRate Moving presents newlywed tips to protect your budget and allow you to buy your dream home! Discussing Money Matters “We need to talk” sounds ominous, but…

Although you’re still in the happy daze of your honeymoon, the reality is about to pop your love bubble.  When you arrive home, you’re finally moving in together and merging your households for the first time.  Since you’ve never lived together before, you’re in for the first challenge of married life which involves compromising as a couple.  Rearranging your living arrangements is just the first in a series of lifestyle changes you will experience, so to survive with your relationship happily intact, heed these helpful hints about how to move…

Although we don’t recommend using secondhand moving boxes when moving, even if you purchase brand new ones from us, you will be saddled with gently used boxes that have no place to go after a move.…

If you’re not computer savvy, want to get rid of unwanted items in one fell swoop and earn some cash, host a yard sale before moving out of your house. Although the trend nowadays is to…

Say you put your house up for sale, do everything you can to make it desirable to buyers, and it sits idle despite dropping the price.  Sometimes, no inexplicable reason exists to explain it, but you’ve already scheduled a moving day with the moving company to your new home and cannot postpone it any longer.  Is it feasible to transform your former residence into a rental property and simultaneously maintain two households? Find out whether renting out and owning two properties is for you. Review Your Financial Portfolio Before you…

Now that you’ve negotiated to buy your dream house or rent that fabulous apartment, you need to schedule a moving date and hire a moving company.  Sounds simple yet you must beware of the most common scams perpetrated by unscrupulous moving companies.  Before you hire just any old mover, review our list of the worst moving scams that could happen to you.  Remember that forewarned is forearmed, and that FlatRate Moving can help you avoid costly and humiliating scams! Who’s That Moving Company? Would you want a perfect stranger to…

One of the first things you must do before even considering moving out is to declutter.  Taking unnecessary, unusable items to your next home limits space and costs extra money to transport.  Luckily, in our modern world, myriad ways exist to downsize, and some even garner profits.  You’ve heard of Craigslist, right? Craigslist and similar online “yard sales” allow you to publicize items you’re selling and earn money.  If you’re interested in padding your wallet before making moving arrangements, here’s how to safely sell your no longer needed or wanted…

Pets mean so much to their owners and become family members.  Although some may argue that pets are just animals, they require the same or more consideration than humans when moving.  Your moving company cannot move your pet to your next home, but as moving professionals we work with pet lovers often and understand what must be done to move your pet without it raining cats and dogs.  Following are helpful hints on how to move with your pet. Carrier Training Before scheduling your move, train your pet to like…