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Issue # 206 (10-12-2003)
Moving DayOn The Move...You move your domain sometimes out of necessity, sometimes for financial reasons, and for a host of other reasons. Regardless of what you've been told, or what you've experienced ... it doesn't have to be a nightmare. |
| Johnny's Ramblings |
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Out of necessity, we're moving. Not JimWorld ... my family. We've simply outgrown our little 3 bedroom house. Wanting to spend more time with my family and not wanting to spend as much money as I do on an outside office, I want to downsize that, and move as much as I can into the house. No room here ... time to move on. Time for a total nightmare. Have you house-shopped recently? 300 houses and 50 internal squabbles later, we finally found the place. Turns out that we got pretty lucky in that it's a huge upgrade in size (nearly double the square footage) for basically the same mortgage payment. Now for the fun part. I've never seen such paperwork. Piles and piles and piles of it. Sign here, initial there. Write this guy a check, that guy a check, get the inspector there by Tuesday (oh, and by the way, it'll take 6 hours and you need to be there for it). Get repairs done on your own house. De-Clutter it so it looks nice and will sell faster, paint the walls, hide the cat, stop playing with your toys. Argh. Now that it's all done, we've sold our house and bought the new one ... and then the buyer turns out to be in the middle of an ugly divorce, so we have to cancel the deal, put the house up for sale again .... and now the real fun begins. Moving day. Packing up your whole life, spending all day hauling, lifting, shifting, and driving ... and then all night unloading, unpacking, and trying to settle in. Luckily, that won't happen for another month. With all that goes into a home move, it got me to thinking about all the websites that I've moved. I've had great experiences and terrible ones. I thought it would be good to use this week's Gazette to talk about moving a Web site ... the right way ... the easy way.
Have your own moving nightmare ?... or some advice for me ? |
Read the Johnny's Ramblings section from the Last Issue or in the Following Issue
JimWorld Member comments and feedback ...
Posted On: 10/23/2003 06:16
Posted By: Stan Rosenzweig
Posted By: Stan Rosenzweig
You don't know how easy you've got it, Jim. A little over 10 years ago, we got remarried, bought a house and sold our respective condos. We thought we had correographed the move perfectly, but then came the surprises. First there was a closing delay because the sellers were now living in Australia. That was resolved quickly enough. Then our mortgage broker didn't fill out the right forms. That took a while. Then the house failed the Radon test and had to be Radon-proofed and retested.
In the meantime, my wife's condo's new owners needed her out "NOW!" but the repeated delays caused the moving company to take us off their schedule, so we couldn't even mover her things into storage.
Finally, I had a great idea, which I pass on to you freely. I rented one of the largest of the U-Haul trucks, filled it with a three bedroom condo's worth of furniture and stuff. The U-Haul guy said I could keep the hugh truck parked on his lot until we were cleared to move in to the new place, which took two more weeks. His one problem was that "corporate" frowned on longer term rentals and preferred their agents to do one day rentals. "Would you mind coming by every day and renting the truck for 24 hours each time?"
"No problem", said I, and was happy to give this guy 15 individual sales, one day at a time, until our new home had a Radon clean bill of health and we could move (finally).
You may move lots of website, but I spend my time moving entire businesses, including webservers, internet access circuits, telephone and data systems, carrier services, local telephone companies, etc. These moves have so many "moving parts" that I couldn't begin to list them here for you. In the professional world, everything runs smoothly because we all get lots of practice. Moving our home, however, is usually a rare occurance, one that we don't care to repeat too often. My pledge: The house I moved into ten years ago will be the one I die in. I'm not moving again.
Stan
In the meantime, my wife's condo's new owners needed her out "NOW!" but the repeated delays caused the moving company to take us off their schedule, so we couldn't even mover her things into storage.
Finally, I had a great idea, which I pass on to you freely. I rented one of the largest of the U-Haul trucks, filled it with a three bedroom condo's worth of furniture and stuff. The U-Haul guy said I could keep the hugh truck parked on his lot until we were cleared to move in to the new place, which took two more weeks. His one problem was that "corporate" frowned on longer term rentals and preferred their agents to do one day rentals. "Would you mind coming by every day and renting the truck for 24 hours each time?"
"No problem", said I, and was happy to give this guy 15 individual sales, one day at a time, until our new home had a Radon clean bill of health and we could move (finally).
You may move lots of website, but I spend my time moving entire businesses, including webservers, internet access circuits, telephone and data systems, carrier services, local telephone companies, etc. These moves have so many "moving parts" that I couldn't begin to list them here for you. In the professional world, everything runs smoothly because we all get lots of practice. Moving our home, however, is usually a rare occurance, one that we don't care to repeat too often. My pledge: The house I moved into ten years ago will be the one I die in. I'm not moving again.
Stan
Posted On: 10/23/2003 09:04
Posted By: St0n3y
Posted By: St0n3y
We had an unbelievably seemless move back in April.
Cleaned up our house by moving TONS of stuff into storage, painted, repaired, then did a for sale by owner. We got our first bid in 6 weeks. They wanted it BAD and offered $2000 above asking price. Our only catch was we needed to rent back for a couple of months until our new house was completed. No problem, worked that into the contract. New home was completed even earlier than scheduled which made us and the new buyers happy. (although they were PO'd at us because we would not let them store their refriderater in our garage until we moved out!)
The one hitch in the works was the moving company. We found on of those companies that loads, hauls and unloads, but we do all the packing. No problem, but the truck that was supposed to fit enough stuff for a 2000 sq. ft. home, could not fill all our stuff which fit in a 1300 sq. ft. home. They delivered what fit in the truck but refused to pick up and deliver the rest.
Cleaned up our house by moving TONS of stuff into storage, painted, repaired, then did a for sale by owner. We got our first bid in 6 weeks. They wanted it BAD and offered $2000 above asking price. Our only catch was we needed to rent back for a couple of months until our new house was completed. No problem, worked that into the contract. New home was completed even earlier than scheduled which made us and the new buyers happy. (although they were PO'd at us because we would not let them store their refriderater in our garage until we moved out!)
The one hitch in the works was the moving company. We found on of those companies that loads, hauls and unloads, but we do all the packing. No problem, but the truck that was supposed to fit enough stuff for a 2000 sq. ft. home, could not fill all our stuff which fit in a 1300 sq. ft. home. They delivered what fit in the truck but refused to pick up and deliver the rest.
Posted On: 10/23/2003 11:57
Posted By: Sarah Lander
Posted By: Sarah Lander
We bought our current house from new 3 years ago this December. The legal stuff dragged on so long that we landed up a month after our original moving date having had to cancel the removal vans twice. As a result we found ourselves moving into our new house on 21st December.
Things went downhill from there. When we turned up at the new house, we found workmen resurfacing the road and nobody had bothered to tell us. As a result the removal van was stuck out in the next road until very late in the day, and by the time they could start to unload our stuff they'd legally been "working" longer than they ought to have. As a result they unloaded the bed and the few boxes blocking it in and decided to come back the next day to unload the rest of the stuff.
They was no secure compound locally for them to store the van overnight and they couldn't sleep in it because the heater had broken, so in the end they drove the 100 miles back from where they'd come and parked it in their compound there. Needless to say as there's a minimum number of hours they must legally have off before they're allowed to drive such distances again, by the time they came back with the rest of our stuff the next day, the workmen had once again started their resurfacing work on the road and the van couldn't get down!
We eventually managed to get the last of our stuff unloaded on 23rd December with just enough time left to go and get some food to put in the fridge/freezer etc to tide us over Christmas before the shops shut.
The one thing we learnt from this experience was never, ever to move that close to Christmas. You never know what is going to go wrong!
Things went downhill from there. When we turned up at the new house, we found workmen resurfacing the road and nobody had bothered to tell us. As a result the removal van was stuck out in the next road until very late in the day, and by the time they could start to unload our stuff they'd legally been "working" longer than they ought to have. As a result they unloaded the bed and the few boxes blocking it in and decided to come back the next day to unload the rest of the stuff.
They was no secure compound locally for them to store the van overnight and they couldn't sleep in it because the heater had broken, so in the end they drove the 100 miles back from where they'd come and parked it in their compound there. Needless to say as there's a minimum number of hours they must legally have off before they're allowed to drive such distances again, by the time they came back with the rest of our stuff the next day, the workmen had once again started their resurfacing work on the road and the van couldn't get down!
We eventually managed to get the last of our stuff unloaded on 23rd December with just enough time left to go and get some food to put in the fridge/freezer etc to tide us over Christmas before the shops shut.
The one thing we learnt from this experience was never, ever to move that close to Christmas. You never know what is going to go wrong!
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