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A moving experience

Looking for a mover? Bankrate.com makes 10 suggestions "to avoid being taken for a ride":

1. Ask your Realtor

2. Investigate the companies

3. Make the moving company look at your home

4. Get three estimates

5. Demand a contract that covers everything

6. Ask about the claims process

7. Do the movers conduct drug tests and background checks?

8. Be cautious of Internet movers

9. Look at the actual trucks used

10. Pay little up front

More details can be found HERE.

Would you add anything to that list? What about suggestions for moving yourself successfully?

Posted by Jamie Smith Hopkins on June 27, 2008 9:14 AM |
                    

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Jamie Smith Hopkins, a Baltimore Sun reporter since 1999, writes about the regional economy. Her reporting on the housing market has won national and local awards. Hopkins is a Columbia native and has lived in Maryland all her life, save for 10 months spent covering schools in Ames, Iowa.
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