Moving into Your New Apartment Tennessee

Recruit Help

The first step is going to be recruiting some friends and family to help you move all the stuff out of your apartment. Be sure to reward them appropriately after they help you with your apartment move.

Make sure that you have enough people to help you. Figure out the bulkiest and heaviest item in your apartment and determine how many people it will take to move it into your new apartment. This is the least amount of people that you will need.

When you schedule your move out and move in date, be sure to give your volunteers plenty of notice. You should probably try to give two weeks notice to all your volunteers. You may not have an exact date until later, but you should alert everyone and keep people informed as early on in the process as possible. It is a good idea to also have some alternates available. Make sure everyone is on the same page and is willing and able to help before move day.

Rent a Truck

Contact your local U-Haul Penske or Budget Truck rental centers and reserve the truck at least a week in advance. You can rent one of these trucks for a full or half day, depending on your needs.

Be sure that you have made proper arrangements; it is probably worse to have a truck not show up than your volunteers. You do not want a group of angry and anxious volunteers waiting for a truck and all of your belongings on the side of the road.

Packing up Your Apartment

Get yourself some boxes, which only cost about $3 and can save you a lot of time and frustration. You should try to make moving as easy as possible once you have your enlisted help at your apartment. Trying to move things one by one into and out of a truck will take a lot of time

You should start packing up all of your stuff well in advance of you actual move date. When you decide to start packing will depend on how many things you'll be taking to your new apartment. If you wait until too late and get stuck packing things on your actual move date, you will end up costing your volunteers more time.

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