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Whether you want to freshen up your current home or the one you’re moving into, painting is the easiest way to dress up a shabby-looking room for potential buyers or to suit your new home’s needs.  The question is do you want to complete the painting or hire a professional painter or painting company to handle the job?  Depending on your schedule and skills, you may hire a professional, and if you do, here’s what to know before hiring one. Finding the Right One Searching for a painter involves relying…

Staying on the grid while moving isn’t too challenging when access to e-mail, social media, and other communication methods makes almost everyone readily available.  However, not everyone may be aware that you’re moving, and you don’t want to miss out on snail mail and utility services for a single second.  Obviously, you must update your address before moving, but who needs to know? We know who needs to know and how and when to tell them below! Family and Friends Notify family and friends of your new address -- even…

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…

Beware the moving company scam! Even though you may scoff along with all the other moving advice you receive from well-intentioned yet pushy bystanders, learning how to avoid moving scams is the best advice you must take.  When you arrange your move, the numerous tasks you must accomplish could outweigh any concern over falling prey to swindling, but it happens and you must protect yourself and your possessions.  Use this guide before moving to avoid scams and have an uneventful but successful moving experience. Check Them Out As for every…