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Whether you’re a plan-out-every-expense mover or go the swipe-the-card-ask-questions-later route, the toll that moving takes on your finances always seems to be bigger than you were expecting.
Unfortunately, there’s no one culprit to watch out for. Moving comes with a lot of expenses, and many of them seem to end up costing more than you bargained for. But if you know what to look for throughout the process, you can at least budget accordingly — and hopefully even make your move a little cheaper.
You might be tempted to go with the cheapest hourly rate or estimate when picking a moving company, but that’s not always the price you’ll end up paying. There are typically a number of extra fees that are included in the final bill….Continue reading….
By: Joe Supan
Source: Why Moving Always Costs More Than You Think | MYMOVE
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Relocation, also known as moving, or moving house, is the process of leaving one’s dwelling and settling in another. The new location can be in the same neighborhood or a much farther place in a different city or different country (immigration). It usually includes packing all belongings, transferring to the new home, unpacking, and administrative or bureaucratic tasks, such as changing registration data.
An expatriate is an individual temporarily or permanently relocating to a country other than their native country. The individual relocating would be considered an immigrant in their new country. On the Holmes and Rahe stress scale for adults, “change of residence” is considered a stressful activity, assigned 20 points (with the death of a spouse being ranked the highest at 100).
Although other changes on the scale (e.g., “change in living conditions”, “change in social activities”) often occur as a result of relocating, making the overall stress level potentially higher. Various studies have found that moving house is often particularly stressful for children and is sometimes associated with long-term psychological problems.
Pressure points for international assignees include challenges of a new job, inability to participate in activities available at home, loss of peer support, language and other cultural difficulties, and worker’s spouse being unable to find work. Relocation may be supported by a relocation service, which assists people in finding and moving into a new house, organizing a school for children, conducting local culture training, and supporting integration into the new location and culture.
Some jurisdictions subsidize relocations. Some target remote workers to enhance the local workforce and tax base. There may be a legal requirement for individuals to notify authorities of a change of address if they maintain a driver’s license or vehicle registration, voter registration, are on parole, or are eligible for conscription (as with the Selective Service System). Some loans require the borrower to notify the lender of address changes.
In the United States, moving companies must provide the customers with a booklet “Your Rights and Responsibilities When You Move” created by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). Immigration law impacts the requirements and feasibility of moving to another country.
Elevating a whole structure is typically done by attaching a temporary steel framework under the structure to support it. A network of hydraulic jacks is placed under the framework and controlled by a unified jacking system, elevating the structure off the foundation. An older, low-technology method is to use building jacks called screw jacks or jackscrews which are manually turned.
With both types of jacking systems, wood beams (called cribs, cribbing or box cribs) are stacked into piles to support both the structure and the jacks. The structure is then lifted in increments. Once the structure is at a sufficient height, hydraulic dollies (or a flatbed truck) are placed under the supporting framework. These are used to move the structure to the new location. After the move, the steps are reversed and the structure is lowered.
There are several reasons why a structure may be moved. For example, a redevelopment, such as urban regeneration, could cause a relocation. The buyer of a building may wish to move it to a new location, or the owner might sell the land that the building is on while keeping the building. Another reason for the relocation of a building is to preserve it for historic interest. An example of such preservation is the Lin An Tai Historical House in Taiwan.
Such a move could be made because a building is in danger at its present location. On the island of Chiloe, in Chile, there is a tradition of moving houses if the original site is haunted. The house is placed on tree trunk rollers and dragged to the new location by oxen. Although smaller projects are usually paid for in cash, larger projects such as the relocation of a house to a new site are typically financed by banks.
Finance is often a major problem faced by project managers as the house needs to be paid for prior to leaving its current site, but the lender for the project cannot take security over the house until it is complete and on the new site. This creates a short-term cashflow problem that unhinges many projects.
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Your Rights and Responsibilities When You Move”. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
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