Urban Relocation

Relocating to another city: Tips on moving, packing, and unpacking (Part 2)

Start packing long before the moving date; again prioritizing what can be packed right now due to lack of usage and what can only be packed at the last minutes (ie. dishes, television set, computer). This gives you plenty of time to sort through your belongings and see what you truly want to take and what should be donated to Goodwill. Rushed packing only leads to having more work at the other end as you realize in shock that you have packed and moved the garbage bag – still full of last week’s Chinese dinner.

Your moving crew can range from just yourself and family and friends to professionally paid experts who will come into your home and take it all away – to your new home, hopefully. Again, you get what you pay for. It’s fine to ask your friends to help out and rent a small truck, but realize that it might be more heartbreaking and backbreaking work than you bargained for. Your friends will have to move and carry your entire life’s collection from your place to your new home and they might not be physically or mentally eager to do so. Even if you do offer them beer and pizza at the end of it, you risk damaging your friendships as well as your physical being.

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Relocating to another city: Tips on moving, packing, and unpacking (Part 1)

It’s always intimidating to look around your home, planning the packing and moving of your entire life. But with a few easy hints, your move can go smoother than ever.

You Get What You Pay For. This relates not only to the quality of the boxes you will be using to move your possessions, but also for the actual physical moving of said boxes. Purchase new boxes as much as possible even if the move is only a local shift. Used cardboard tends to become weaker each time used, and it’s likely that time and wear has worn its way through those storage boxes in the basement. The last thing you need upon shifting the antique glass collection to your shoulder is to hear the bottom fall out. Go to your local hardware store and invest in fresh, new boxes along with a good supply of tape.

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Austin ranks high for relocating singles

In an annual survey, two relocation companies have named Austin one of the top 10 cities in the U.S. for relocating singles.

Worldwide ERC, based in Washington, D.C., and Primacy Relocation, based in Memphis, Tenn., teamed with survey company Sperling’s BestPlaces. The survey used statistical profiles of the 100 largest U.S. metro areas to weigh criteria including male to female ratios, job growth, higher education costs and the prevalance of bars, clubs and restaurants.

Austin ranked eighth out of the 100 surveyed cities.

“We know that successfully assimilating into a new community facilitates a transferee’s productivity,” says Cris Collie, CEO of Worldwide ERC. “As the labor market continues to tighten, opportunities for talented and mobile employees expand, and companies seek more ways to successfully compete for talent, the focus on elements that make relocation more attractive to job candidates becomes more significant.”

Source: urbanlifeunited.com

How to find the LA that suits you!

If you have the necessary dough to allow for a pre-move trip to Los Angeles, it is strongly recommended for a 3 reasons.

With as many freeways as we have, the traffic can stressful so trimming your travel time does require knowledge of what sort of commute you will have. For example, if you are living on the west side of town could, you will have an hour-long commute to get to the downtown area, which is less than 20 miles.

A pre-move trip is crucial for finding the area that provides the kind of lifestyle that you have. The affordable community of Silverlake, just east of Hollywood, is full of coffee shops, hip boutiques, great music places, and some of the best bars and watering holes in the county. Though, It is also important to learn about where your employment opportunities are located. If you are financials geek, more companies are located in the downtown area than if you were to work in film production, which is heavily concentrated in the valley or North Hollywood.

Therefore, whatever your hearts desire, if you have the budget, there is always a part of Los Angeles where you can fit in!

Energy Law Set To Causes Stir in Real Estate Industry

Property owners and landlords are in a rush to comply early with new energy efficiency laws that are set to go in effect next year. The new law would necessitate strict compliance of buildings and building owners regarding the declaration of their overall energy efficiency and the measures they are going to take towards attaining better results. Criminal charges are just some of the penalties foreseen for violations of the new laws and for sure, fines and tax penalties may also follow. The new laws are being criticized as a bad idea due to the fact that they are being so fast-tracked that for sure not many people can comply with them at the desired implementation date. This along with many changes to environmental compliance laws are being fast-tracked to adopt new environmentally friendly laws that would greatly improve the efficiency of buildings, hiled as some of the most inefficient structures the world over.

How to Convince People to Buy through Pictures.

Pictures can be some of the best ways to show people the potential of a home or property, helping them make up their mind. Bright and well lit pictures make the best selling tools for internet marketing and the newly expanding world of mobile markets. Mobile phones are now capable of using Google’s maps facility that has been greatly improved by the street-view option which allows one to see the frontage as well as the surrounding areas if the owner permits. You can even use some third-party utilities that not only allows you to list your property but upload images that can be embedded into the Google maps and other mobile utilities making up to date news and details about a property timely and relevant. Technology has allowed more and moe people to get their homes on sale or for buying, it has made the whole house hunting task way easier and faster, minimizing wasted time and effort of times gone by.

Pre-Fabricated Green Homes

These homes are developed using the latest green technologies that aimed to make good products even better. The collapse of the housing market prompted people to re-think their strategy when it comes to their homes and some of the cheapest and quickest ways to get a home are now being offered by pre-fabricated home makers. Some were bought about by the frequent rash of severe storms that brought so much damage into the lives of people who lived in areas that were more often than not laid to waste by the many storms that now become more frequent year after year. Read the rest…

Urban Homeowners Owe More

People in some US states have been found to owe more from the bank than what their properties are worth according to the latest surveys which gives evidence of the foreclosure crisis that is still on-going. Many people who have lost homes and are having to do with smaller rental properties have no options when they fell victims to the housing market crash which offered products with lack of insight for such eventualities. The housing market itself is to blame for it’s collapse and the bad thing about it was that financial experts knew this was going to happen. Read the rest…

Moving a business

Moving a business is even more hassle than moving a home, because of the number of people involved and the potential losses to production. One of the ways to help make office moves easier would be to inform everybody of the move in advance. A company meeting would be the perfect forum for this announcement. This way questions from your staff can be entertained and concerns appeased. Informing people early also give them time to map out their tasks so that when the move comes, there will be minimal losses to the company. You should also hire movers that are used to moving office equipment, especially if you have special machines that need some extra care. Specialty movers have better insurance, thus protecting your equipment, but more than that, more experience so that your stuff is safe when you get to your new office space.

Choose Green

Not the color of the house, green construction is what we mean. This is the current trend in the housing and development market where buildings and other development projects are going green from the ground up. Most houses have been re-fitted but the ones that use the best green materials offer the best sustainability factor in the future.
Don’t get it all wrong, green homes do get a lot of discounts from taxes and other government fees but they do cost a lot more (for now) that ordinary houses for one main reason, technology is evolving so quickly that the materials being incorporated into these houses are some of the newest materials science can produce. Houses with Energy Star certification proves the house is built ground up using green technology. Ask the developer for such issues so you get what you pay for.