Make Your Next Move Less Stressful

Whether you are relocating for a new job, retiring to a smaller home, or moving to a larger home because of your growing family, moving can be extremely stressful. Whether you own your home or rent, plan to buy a new home or lease, there are dozens and dozens of tedious details which, if forgotten, can cause stress, delays, and headaches.

There are ways to make moving less stressful. For example, new online applications that help keep you organized every step of the way, walking you through the process and allowing you to print out checklists. Because these applications are online, you can access your information from any computer, anywhere, even while on the road traveling to your new residence.

If you own a large quantity of furnishings, entertainment equipment, office equipment, and other things that make life pleasant, you will probably need a moving service to load your household goods into a large moving van and deliver them safely to your new home. To find the right moving service, you'll need to obtain a moving quote and specifics of what services are included in that quote from several moving companies. Jotting notes on scraps of paper is not a good way to keep this vital information organized. Instead, use one of these handy online applications to input, compare and choose from your quotes to select the best moving service for the money.

Of course, you probably will not want to move every item in your current home to your new home. You probably have many items that could be donated to charity, given away, or sold to someone who wants these items. Remember that expensive set of golf clubs you purchased before you realized you don't enjoy golf? Someone really wants them and is willing to pay for them. You can create online checklists of items to move, discard, sell, donate, or give away.

A careful inventory of items to be moved is necessary to ensure that you know exactly what goes into the moving service's truck. If you do not have a clear, organized checklist, should a box be damaged or lost, you might have difficulty being reimbursed for the damage or loss. Use the easy online applications for a household inventory. You'll also find this checklist handy when you buy �contents insurance� or �renter's insurance� for your new residence.

You may want to purchase new furnishings for some areas of your new home. You'll find keeping track of what you plan to acquire as easy as tracking what you want to discard. You'll have lists of steps to take such as shutting off utilities and services at your old residence and having them turned on at the new residence. Today, many of these service transitions can even be accomplished online too, making the process quick and simple.

There is lot of online help for selling your present home and buying a home at a new location. By filling in facts in response to simple questions, these online applications generate real estate fact sheets to help your realtor better understand the property being offered for sale. You can also generate a realtor information sheet using the same simple methods to help a realtor in your new city or town find a home for you to buy or residence to rent or lease that is just right for you and your family. Many realtors today offer online tours of a home, either with room by room digital photographs or videos or 360-degree visual tours. You can save lots of time and reduce stress by choosing only a few potential residences to tour in person instead of spending hours of viewing homes that simply cannot meet the needs of you and your family.

These next-generation online applications help so much in organizing and planning the logistics of a household move that you can actually enjoy those going-away parties in your old home and the housewarming parties in your new residence. Having organized you move with these new online applications, you can rest assured that none of the key moving tasks have slipped through the cracks.

About the Author: Richard Holley, President and Owner of Summit PM Services resides in Stony Plain, AB. Having experienced the chaos associated with several stressful relocations, he saw a need for people relocating to have access to better information about moving. Holley began development of Online Custom Moving Plan Service. After careful research, planning and development, his website, Planning-Your-Move.com (http://www.planning-your-move.com), was launched to provide this much needed help to individuals and families to make the relocation process efficient and cost-effective. He can be contacted using the "Contact Us" form on his website (http://www.planning-your-move.com/contact.aspx).