Most people don’t think about their storage unit until the move is already booked and someone asks, almost in passing, “wait, what’s actually in there?” Storage unit downsizing before a move is one of those tasks that feels small until you’re standing in front of a 10×10 unit you haven’t opened in two years, realizing
Ask any moving crew what they wish customers understood before move day, and you’ll get some version of the same answer: people pack when they should be purging, and it costs them money, time, and a genuinely worse move-in experience. The packing vs purging question isn’t really about tape and boxes. It’s about which mindset
Decluttering before a local move across town is a nice-to-have. Decluttering before a long-distance move is basically a financial decision disguised as a chore. Every box, every extra chair, every “I’ll deal with it later” bin you load onto a long-haul truck gets charged for by weight or cubic footage, which means clutter you’d normally
Somewhere between hiring the movers and the truck showing up, most people ask themselves the same question at 11pm while standing in front of a dresser: is this thing actually worth taking with me? If you’re staring down an interstate move right now, figuring out what to do with furniture before an interstate move is
Jefferson Park is one of the most historically dense neighborhoods we work in, close to 2,500 homes packed into about fifty blocks, most of them Craftsman bungalows built between 1905 and 1920. A big chunk of the neighborhood sits inside a Historic Preservation Overlay Zone, which means a lot of the properties we work at
Watts has a tight-knit, small-lot feel that’s pretty different from a lot of the bigger, sprawling neighborhoods we work in. Most of the homes here are modest single-family bungalows on compact lots, many of them owned by families who’ve been on the same block for decades, alongside garden apartments and rental units built during the
