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Moving Storage Tips
Moving Checklist
- Take inventory of your home. For insurance purposes, take a video with closeups of serial numbers, brand names or other identifying marks. Keep this video in your safe deposit box.
- Clean out all storage areas. Decide what goes with you, what to sell and what to give away. Donate items or have a yard sale.
- Call Mobile Mini to schedule delivery of your storage container at 1-800-950-6464. We have hand carts, packing supplies and boxes that we will deliver to you with the container!
- Start a file for all important moving-related documents. Many moving expenses are tax deductible, so keep your receipts. Call the IRS for Publication 521: "Tax Information On Moving Expenses."
- Make travel plans if needed - hotel, rental car or airline reservations.
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Moving and Storage Tips
Moving Checklist
- Check on your insurance coverage. Mobile Mini offers additional coverage. Call us for more details.
- Collect and keep important papers handy; medical, dental, eyeglass or contact lens records, school records, child immunization records, prescriptions, loan payment books, pet immunization records, insurance documents, passports, marriage licenses, birth certificates, social security papers, etc.
- Ask your pharmacy to transfer your prescriptions.
- Find out what information is needed for school transfers.
- Open new bank accounts (if required) and order new checks in advance.
- File a "Change of Address" form with the post office.
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Moving and Storage Tips
Moving Checklist
- Arrange for utilities to be stopped at old address a day after you have moved. Don't to forget to request that the deposit be returned. Arrange for utilities at your new address to have service connected a day before you move in.
- Change your addresses with: accountant, alumni associations, appliance contracts, attorney, banks, car loan company, catalog merchants, charitable organizations, church/synagogue, credit cards, dentist, drivers license, employers, frequent flyer programs, friends and relatives, insurance companies, investment companies, IRAs, lending institutions, magazine subscriptions, physicians, stockbroker, veterinarian, etc.
- Reserve a baby-sitter for moving day or weekend.
- Round up people to be part of the moving crew... food and drinks are always a good incentive.
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Moving and Storage Tips
Moving Checklist
- Contact the following utility companies: Heat/Electric, Phone, Water, Cable, Trash Removal
- Call your long distance carrier to transfer/change services.
- Cancel/Transfer newspaper delivery
- Dispose of flammable, volatile, hazardous or toxic materials such as spray paints, paint, alcohol, lighter fluid, solvents, paint thinner, insecticides, gas, oil, etc. Empty and air out your power mower and other gasoline engines, camp stove, barbecue grill tank and lantern fuel tanks.
- Pack a "Survival Kit" for each person in your household. Items to include: keys, basic tools: hammer, nails, screwdriver, masking tape, flashlight, lightbulbs, trash bags, and a knife; bathroom essentials: soap, towel, toilet paper, and a first aid kit; kitchen essentials: snacks, paper plates, cups, paper towels, plastic utensils and spray cleaners; other items: prescriptions, address book, checkbook, telephone, clock, glasses, change of clothes and don't forget... your moving file.
Moving and Storage Tips
Packing Guidelines
- Packing and loading of a Mobile Mini storage container is done in the same way you would pack for a moving van or rental truck move. Properly pack and secure your belongings because your storage container will be transported by truck to a Mobile Mini self-service storage facility location, and then it will be unloaded and moved by forklift.
- Label ALL boxes. Label your boxes by room and mark appropriate boxes fragile.
- Packing boxes. Where needed, use mothballs and other pest control products. Do not overpack or underpack boxes. Seal boxes with packing tape and do not pack fragile and heavy items in the same box.
Moving and Storage Tips
Let's Get Packing
- Start with the essentials: sturdy boxes, newsprint for wrapping, tape, scissors, felt tip markers for numbering and labeling. List contents of each box. Mark on each box where it belongs.
- Mobile Mini will deliver boxes and packing supplies, with your storage unit, right to your door.
- When packing your storage container, please refer to the container packing directions supplied. Be sure to use an inventory list with a general packing location of items inside each container.
Moving and Storage Tips
Moving Day!
- Keep a floorplan handy for a quick reference.
- Plug in large appliances and electronics right away.
- Before you snack, clean each room and wipe out drawers.
- Unpack your bedding and make up beds as they arrive. Setup with survival kit.
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