Additional Costs to look for in Long Distance Home Moving

Home moving requires a great amount of planning, especially when it is a long distance moving. You need to take care of a lot of factors like the size and dimensions of your new home, all the goods to move, wrapping up all the pending tasks at your current location, time and season of the year and access to the new location etc.

Even if you have done a good amount of homework searching for the best packing and moving company that can do the job within your defined budget, there are certain costs which might come up in addition to what your packing and moving company quotes. Let us have a look at the following information below:


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It is always advisable to show all your goods to your packing and moving company to get an accurate estimate of your moving expenses. In addition to this amount, there are certain other expenses you can expect to see, some of which are listed below:

1) Insurance: For long distance move (and even for short distance ones!), you might have to pay certain amount to the insurance company to get your goods insured.

2) Tips to the packers: You may have to pay tips to people who come for packing and unpacking. On our last move around 2 years back, we paid tips to people who packed our goods and also to those who did the unpacking in our new home. The total amount of money that we gave in the tips was roughly around 3% of total moving expenses. For this additional expense, you may not receive any receipt so don't expect it to come back in any form of refund or reimbursement.

3) Additional boxes: Even though your packing and moving company can give an almost accurate estimate on the goods you have, you might need additional boxes for the huge collection of little things you have in your kitchen's cupboard or in your grandmother's closet. In our last move, despite our estimate, we needed at least 8 extra boxes to carry all our stuffs. These extra boxes may cost you a bit more than the original estimate.

4) Fuel charges: Though most of the packing and moving companies include the fuel charges in their cost breakdown chart, you need to be aware of any difference in the fuel prices at the new location. In case of long distance move, if the fuel prices at the new location are higher than those at your current location, then you can expect the overall moving expense to go a bit higher than the original estimate.

Apart from these little expenses, you may have to spend some more money depending on the area you are moving to, such as toll taxes etc. Using an online cost calculator can help you a lot in covering most of the factors that determine your moving expenses, so you can plan your finances well ahead in time.

These cost calculators work on predefined data for a particular location, which gets updated periodically. All you have to do is enter the details about your current and new locations and some other fields. These online cost calculators not only give you a customized report and estimate, but can also enable you to be ready for any surprise expenses that may crop up during the whole phase of transitioning to your new house.

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