What to Expect with Your International Residential Move International moves have a tendency to be arduous. Rest assured we have ways to take care of the difficulties, given that we’ve taken people across oceans and continents for ages now. No matter if you’re heading out from Colorado Springs to London or Paris or Stuttgart or Rome or Bombay or Bangkok or Beijing or Brisbane – or from anywhere stateside to anywhere else – we’ll get your household where it’s got to go. We assume total responsibility for your international move all through … The Moving Process Take a look at the steps you can We fulfill each and every one of these activities associated with your move: FREE Ballpark Pricing With an international move, particularly, you’ll surely feel you need as fast and accurate a number as possible regarding what you can expect to pay for such a move. Call us. Talk with us. Let us know where you’ve got to go, when you’d like or have to go, and what kind of a move you’d need us to perform for you. Referring to our long experience with global moving, we’ll present you with a free ballpark estimate. This may or may not be the final price. Additional discussion with you will help resolve that. But at least you’ll have a reasonable idea of what to expect, finance-wise, before committing to us. The Home Survey To achieve a final, accurate estimate of your move’s cost, we need to inventory the belongings you’ll be transporting. We have two options for taking care of this: A A-1 Freeman Moving Group estimator gives you a visit to review numerous features of your move, do a walk-through of your home, and take that inventory of your belongings. With your mobile phone, you link directly with our estimator and conduct your own home walk-through, recording a video inventory of what you need transported. The Written Estimate After initially talking with you and examining your Home Survey results, we can offer a more accurate, written estimate of your international moving costs. It comprises everything associated with your move, including which moving services of ours you’ve picked. The Customer Agreement This is your move contract, which confirms locations, move dates and times, the moving services you’ve selected, safety and insurance provisions, what you’ll pay, and other specifics. Signing it attests that you agree to our terms and pricing and authorizes us to book your international move. The Move Plan To promote an international move that’s smooth, safe, and headache-free, we assign you a Move Concierge – your very own, exclusive representative and counselor. He or she will assist you in planning your move from start to finish. At your introductory meeting, your Move Concierge will … affirm your move dates, establish the addresses involved locally and in the country to which you’re relocating, affirm which of our services you want, offer precursory advice on what your move will likely entail, and answer your questions. From now until the end of your move, your Move Concierge is your A-1 Freeman Moving Group “one point of contact.” You can depend on him or her being fully conversant with the difficulties of international and advising you properly – particularly on customs laws from one country to another. Along with providing useful information on your specific destination country, he or she also can assist you with ... passports, visas, automobile titles, and all other needed international paperwork. Then, as the move proceeds, your Move Concierge will keep you up to speed on how everything’s progressing. The Pre-Move Confirmation As your move date advances, we’ll email or call you to confirm that it’s still set to go in accordance with the plan. We’ll confirm dates, times, locations, and everything else associated with your setting up home in another country. Packing Our packing options are offered to better address your needs and budget. Opt to handle all the packing by yourself; if you want, we’ll send you the packing materials. Opt to let our movers help you pack. Or Opt to begin packing yourself and permit us to help you by packing specialty items. Whatever way you want your packing handled, you can be confident we understand foreign customs laws and will see to it that your shipments are in full compliance. That includes seeing to it that packed possessions are loaded into the appropriate overseas shipping containers, as applicable. Loading When the truck and crew get to your stateside home, they’ll introduce themselves and carry out a walk-through, getting familiar with your room layout and the items you’re freighting. Next, they’ll perform certain actions to safeguard your home during the process of moving you out. They’ll pad stair rails, tight corners, doors and jambs. And they’ll place carpet covers to keep floors from getting soiled and carpets from snagging, especially in high-traffic areas . In loading your belongings onto the truck, our crew will make sure moving boxes are marked and inventoried by room to aid in their placement in your new home. Beds, entertainment centers, swing sets and whatever else needs disassembling will be meticulously torn down by our crew at this time. Finally, our crew does quality checks and keeps in communication with your Move Concierge all through the loading process. Delivery After we’ve gotten your household goods safely to your new home in your destination country, our crews get it unloaded with extreme care. Prime features of our destination-country delivery services are … the use of protection pads and carpet covers to ensure that your new home remains pristine while we’re moving you in, systematic unloading – getting your belongings into the rooms you want them in, at your direction, reassembling those things that were disassembled for the move, unpacking – just notify us; we’ll do it, and debris removal – where, if you request, we’ll dispose of all the empty moving boxes and supplies after the unpacking. The Post-Move Follow-up At the conclusion of your international move, your Move Concierge will call you to ... discuss it with you, assess how accurately we performed the services you picked address any lingering issues, and THANK YOU for permitting us at A-1 Freeman Moving Group to be your mover! read what others have said about us Request a free quote