Cost of Move in Arizona.

To help you estimate a "ballpark" cost for your move, here are some guidelines. However, we strongly recommend letting us do the estimate, either in person or over the phone. Our Arziona movers are here to help you.

BASIC GUIDELINES FOR ESTIMATING

Size	# of men	Within city	Suburbs	Ballpark Estimate
Studio	2	2 to 4 hours	3 to 6 hours	$ 250 to $ 450
I br Apt	2	3 to 6 hours	4 to 6 hours	$ 270 to $ 500
2 br Apt	3	4 to 6 hours	5 to 7 hours	$ 390 to $ 640
3 br Apt/Hse	3	5 to 7 hours	6 to 8 hours	$470 to $710
4 br Apt/Hse	4	6 to 8 hours	7 to 9 hours	$ 640 to $945

Deducting Moving Expenses

You can deduct your moving expenses if you meet all three of the following requirements.

*Your move is closely related to the start of work.
Your move must be closely related, both in time and in place, to the start of work at your new job location.
Closely related in time. You can generally consider moving expenses incurred within 1 year from the date you first reported to work at the new location as closely related in time to the start of work. It is not necessary that you arrange to work before moving to a new location, as long as you actually go to work in that location.
If you do not move within 1 year of the date you begin work, you ordinarily cannot deduct the expenses unless you can show that circumstances existed that prevented the move within that time.

*You meet the distance test.
Your move will meet the distance test if your new main job location is at least 50 miles farther from your former home than your old main job location was from your former home. For example, if your old main job location was 3 miles from your former home, your new main job location must be at least 53 miles from that former home.

The distance between a job location and your home is the shortest of the more commonly traveled routes between them. The distance test considers only the location of your former home. It does not take into account the location of your new home.

*You meet the time test.
To deduct your moving expenses, you also must meet one of the following two time tests.

*The time test for employees.
*The time test for self-employed persons.

You can deduct your moving expenses before you meet either of the time tests.

Retirees, survivors, and Armed Forces members. Different rules may apply if you are a member of the Armed Forces or a retiree or survivor moving to the United States.

If you meet the requirements discussed earlier, you can deduct the reasonable expenses of:

*Moving your household goods and personal effects (including in-transit or foreign-move storage expenses), and
*Traveling (including lodging but not meals) to your new home.

You cannot deduct any expenses for meals.
You can deduct only those expenses that are reasonable for the circumstances of your move.

You cannot deduct the following items as moving expenses.

*Any part of the purchase price of your new home.
*Car tags.
*Driver's license.
*Expenses of buying or selling a home (including closing costs, mortgage fees, and points).
*Expenses of entering into or breaking a lease.
*Home improvements to help sell your home.
*Loss on the sale of your home.
*Losses from disposing of memberships in clubs.
*Mortgage penalties.
*Pre-move househunting expenses.
*Real estate taxes.
*Refitting of carpet and draperies.
*Return trips to your former residence.
*Security deposits (including any given up due to the move).
*Storage charges except those incurred in transit and for foreign moves.

For more information on deducting your moving expenses please go to: http://www.irs.gov/publications/p521/ar02.html

Office Moving Tips

Normally office commercial moving involves relocating used office furniture, computers, copiers, boxed items and sometimes even moving fine executive furniture. Most used office furniture is in such bad condition that it does not need to be well-protected; however, fine executive furniture, copiers, computers and other sensitive electronics do.

AZMovingPros will primarily be moving desks, file cabinets, chairs, and partitions. These furnishings are best moved on dollies to be bed-loaded (not stacked) on the truck and padded there. Even though there can be a few nicks and scratches or even a dropped furniture piece, this approach is used for most used office furniture in order to expedite the job to keep the customers' costs down.

To meet the goal of doing an economical move, a good Arizona commercial moving service must provide a highly-experienced crew chief on one end of the move and an assistant crew chief (also highly experienced) on the other end with enough movers and trucks and plenty of dollies between them to keep the job flowing efficiently from the first location to the last. It takes a great deal of experience and leadership on their part to keep all aspects of a commercial office move well-coordinated and flowing expeditiously.

Each office commercial move is unique logistically and can sometimes involve quite a few trucks and some rather large crews running back-and-forth between the originating and destination locations. The crew chief and his assistant have to plan and carefully coordinate all the moving personnel being used throughout the job to achieve maximum efficiency. AZMovingPros has done this consistently over the years for many Arizona commercial moving customers and therefore we are considered one of the best Arizona commercial moving services.

Office Move Checklist

1. Is your desk empty?
2. Are your supply cabinets cleared?
3. Are all items labeled?
4. Are breakable items properly packed?
5. Is the equipment in your office disconnected?
6. Have you backed up computer data on disks?
7. Are your computer components properly disconnected and labeled?
8. Are all liquids drained from your equipment?
9. Are your desk pads and chair pads tagged?
10. Is everything tagged properly or marked?
11. Is the condition of your furniture and equipment carefully checked and recorded?
12. Are all shelves on the bookcases labeled?

Arizona Commercial Moving Tips

Many factors enter into the decision to relocate a business. A business can be thought of in terms of three components:

(1) the production of a product and/or service
(2) the marketing of that product/service
(3) the customers who consume it

Each of these components will impact the decision to move.

On the production side, one must look at the availability of resources, both human and otherwise, the legal and regulatory climate as it relates to one's industry, the facilities necessary to accomplish production, and the resultant cost. The resources and regulatory climates of various locales will be dealt with at length in another section of this site. But it is relevant here to consider a few key points with respect to facility planning.

Normally office commercial moving involves relocating used office furniture, computers, copiers, boxed items and sometimes even moving fine executive furniture. Most used office furniture is in such bad condition that it does not need to be well-protected; however, fine executive furniture, copiers, computers and other sensitive electronics do.

With any Arizona commercial mover the main emphasis tends to lean towards economy not extra care for used furnishings. Therefore typically, a moving company will use any kind of cheap help that they can find for their jobs - including day laborers and casuals who are not trained. The problem with using unskilled help is that the supervisory personnel have to make absolutely certain that these unskilled laborers never even touch the fine executive furniture, expensive copiers, computers and other electronics. Those items must be isolated so that only the experienced movers handle them.

To meet the goal of doing an economical move, a good Arizona commercial moving company must provide a highly-experienced crew chief on one end of the move and an assistant crew chief on the other end with enough movers and trucks and plenty of dollies between them to keep the job flowing efficiently from the first location to the last. It takes a great deal of experience and leadership on their part to keep all aspects of a commercial office move well-coordinated and flowing expeditiously.

AZMovingPros holds a complete certificate of insurance. These certificates will be delivered to any building manager who requires proof of insurance, but most large office buildings in Arizona have our certificates on file. Property protection, workmen's compensation, and the specifics of coverage are all detailed in this certificate of insurance.

Why the final price could vary from the moving estimate

For a free estimate on your move go here: azmovinpros.com
A tentative final bill of local moves is estimated using a simple formula:

(Number of movers + truck) x number of hours = final price

Estimating moves is an inexact science. Many variables factor into how long a move will take. AZMovingPros use his experience from doing similar moves in order to figure out how many hours the move will require. Our estimate includes the amount of time that will pass from the moment the truck first leaves the mover's garage until it returns after the job is finished. He will then add in the cost of boxes, Packing Tape and other packing materials, extra insurance/valuation and known incidental costs, such as road and bridge tolls.

One of the most important things that you should do before you move is to have complete knowledge of your new neighborhood, apartment complex, and the route to your destination. With local moves, time is everything. You can save hours off of the moving time if you can recommend a quicker route to your destination than the one your mover was expecting to take.

* Always have a person accompany the movers during the packing and loading processes. This will keep their attention squarely on the job at hand. It will also help keep you informed, just in case your furniture needs to be disassembled, and you've been standing in your new home wondering why the movers are two hours late.
* Check your new area for the availability of suitable parking for the truck - one that will allow the movers to comfortably load and unload your items. Double-parking means the truck has to round the corner every so often and you'll be incurred additional charges.
* The availability of suitable elevator units for apartment moves is a very important, especially ones large enough to hold your biggest pieces of furniture. This will definitely save you time and money. But it will also save the movers the time and effort of carrying heavy furniture up the stairs and also from disassembling your furniture.

In order to keep the cost of your move as close as the estimate, we assume, in every situation, the following:
* You will not need additional supplies to be provided by the movers.
* You will have packed everything yourself that you had anticipated.
* The scope of the work does not change markedly on the day of the move. In other words, you didn't forget to tell us about important (and heavy) stuff, such as:
* The lawnmower your neighbor borrowed from you.
* The unknown contents of your filled storage space.
* The "priceless" junk in the basement you found under the tarp- the stuff that your wife was hoping would be left behind "by accident."
* Traffic from your old home to your new will not be worse than usual.

Residential Moving Tips from Arizona Professional Movers

It would probably be surprising to most people to learn that residential moving is considered to be the most difficult of moving services!

Some of the oldest and largest moving companies prefer to provide as little in the line of residential moving services as possible, opting instead to do only commercial jobs. They prefer commercial jobs over residential household goods jobs because commercials tend to be big and they do not require the moving skills that are necessary to successfully move a homeowners high-quality household goods without damages.

Commercial customer's office furnishings are usually already nicked, scratched or damaged to some degree so any further minor damages are usually unimportant. Therefore these movers mainly just focus on expediting their jobs even if that causes damages.

Many people have told us that they could not find a high-quality residential moving service that excels at household goods moving involving their fine furnishings, antiques and / or pianos / organs until they discovered AZMovingPros. To offer this high caliber of moving Arizona residential moving services can only employ well-trained, capable, and experienced movers who know how to carefully protect fine furnishings.

Since every move is different, AZMovingPros' services are customized to meet each families' unique relocation needs. To ensure these needs are identified and met, an experienced move coordinator will be assigned to you and will be your single-point-of-contact for counsel regarding all moving and relocation issues.

Terrific Moving Tips (Become a Pro in Moving!)

If you're among thousands of people who have picked up and moved their family to a new home or a new community, you have fresh memories of some of the ups and downs or thrills or frustrations of moving.

Make a list.
Write everything down! You'll thank yourself later. Before you pack even one box, create a simple record keeping system. Create a computer-printed list of numbers with a space to write the contents. Or have a spiral-bound notebook for the job. You'll place a number on EVERY box you pack and list the contents on your list. Don't put the list down unless it's in a place you'll call Packing Central. This is where you'll find your labels, marking pens, box tape, and other supplies. When describing the box contents, be specific -- "A-D files" is better than "files", and "Tulip dishes" rather than "misc. kitchen".

Have plenty of supplies.
Don't make me say this twice-- you'll need LOTS of boxes--probably more boxes than you think, and having enough boxes will make your life easier! (If you buy your boxes from a moving company, you can always return unused boxes for a refund. If you got them free from the grocery, just toss any leftovers.) Have about 10 boxes set aside to use for last minute items on moving day, such as bedding, clothing, and cleaning supplies. You'll need strong plastic packing tape to close up the boxes securely. Use unprinted newsprint (newspaper can stain your items) or packing paper or bubble wrap to wrap and cushion household good. Again, you'll need lots more supplies than you think, so get extra so the packing can go smoothly. Return any unused supplies after the truck is packed.

Utilize wardrobe boxes.
These tall boxes are perfect for bulky, lightweight items such as comforters, pillows, and blankets, as well as clothes that need to remain hanging. Call your mover to ask the width of the wardrobe boxes they'll be bringing. Then measure the clothes in your closets (including coat closets) to see how many wardrobe boxes you'll need. You can also use them for closet storage boxes, shoe boxes, and other bulky items such as fabric bolts, large baskets, or gift wrap tubes.

Don't make the boxes too heavy to lift, however.

Strategize wardrobe box use.
Moving companies will be happy to deliver boxes ahead of your moving day. Or if you're doing the move yourself, get things organized as early as possible. A few days before your move, fill some sturdy handled shopping bags with bulky closet items such as shoes, sweaters, belts, and jeans. On moving day, fill the bottom of the wardrobe boxes with some of the shopping bags, then add your hanging clothing. Pack hanging items tightly so things won't move around and fall off of hangers. Finally, cover the shoulders of your clothes (a dry cleaning bag works well), then add a few purses or sweaters on top. You'll have fewer boxes, and closet items remain together. Also, the shopping bags will make it easier to retrieve your belongings from the bottoms of a tall wardrobe box.

Color coordinate.
Designate a color for each room in the new home, such as yellow for kitchen, orange for dining room, etc. Apply colored stickers on the box near the box number. In your new home. Put a matching sticker on the door to each room. The movers will know where to put everything when they arrive at the desitination. It's also helpful to post a big sign on the wall in the room where you want boxes stacked, ("Boxes here please") to keep them out of furniture and traffic areas.

If you need help call us and we will answer all your questions!!! Go to: AZMovingPros.com