What to Expect with Your International Residential Move International moves have a tendency to be taxing. Don’t worry. We’ll expertly navigate the difficulties, seeing as how we’ve moved people to cities spanning the globe from the time of our founding. Whether you’re going from Wichita Falls to London or Paris or Stuttgart or Rome or Bombay or Bangkok or Beijing or Brisbane – or from anywhere in the states to anywhere else – we’ll get your household where it’s got to go. We accept complete responsibility for your international move during … The Moving Process Take a look at the steps you can We expertly handle each one of these matters attendent to your move: FREE Ballpark Pricing With an international move, especially, you’ll want to be advised quickly on what you’ll be charged for such a move. Contact us. Speak with us. Let us know where you’re going, when you’d like or have to go, and what sort of a move you’d want us to execute for you. Based on our vast experience with global moving, we’ll come up with a free ballpark estimate. This could actually end up being the final price – but it may not be, either. Further consultation with you will help decide that. But at least you’ll have some idea of what to expect, budget-wise, prior to committing fully. The Home Survey To come up with a final, accurate estimate of your move’s cost, we’re required to inventory the possessions you’ll be transporting. We give you two options for doing this: A A-1 Freeman Moving Group estimator gives you a visit to talk with you about various features of your move, conduct a walk-through of your home, and take that survey of your possessions. Using your mobile phone, you link to our estimator and perform your own home walk-through, recording a video inventory of what you need freighted. The Written Estimate After consulting with you and assessing your Home Survey results, we’re ready deliver a more exact, written estimate of the financial outlay required for your international move. It encompasses everything associated with your move, including which moving services of ours you’ve opted. The Customer Agreement This is your move contract, which documents locations, move dates and times, the moving services you’ve picked, safety and insurance provisions, the cost, and other details. Signing it signifies that you agree to our terms and pricing and permits us to book your relocation. The Move Plan To deliver an international move that’s smooth, safe, and problem-free, we assign you a Move Concierge – your very own, exclusive representative and counselor. He or she will help you plan every aspect of your move. In your first meeting, your Move Concierge will … establish your move dates, confirm the addresses involved stateside and in the country to which you’re relocating, establish which of our services you prefer, provide precursory guidance in what’s likely in store for you during your move, and provide answers to your questions. From now until we get you moved and settled in your new country, your Move Concierge is your A-1 Freeman Moving Group “one point of contact.” You can count on him or her being extremely knowledgeable about the difficulties of international and advising you properly – particularly on customs laws from one country to another. Along with providing useful information on your particular destination country, he or she also can help you with ... passports, visas, automobile titles, and all other necessary international paperwork. Then, during the course of the move, your Move Concierge will keep you updated on where things stand. The Pre-Move Confirmation As your move date gets close, we’ll email or call you to confirm that it’s still set to go in accordance with the plan. We’ll make sure of dates, times, locations, and other important elements regarding your establising a new home in a new country. Packing Our packing options were initiated to more fittingly address your needs and budget. Choose to do your own packing; if you want, we’ll send you the packing materials. Opt to turn the packing over to our crew. Or Elect to start out packing yourself and allow us help you by packing specialty items. Regardless of how you choose to have your packing taken care of, you have the assurance our past customers that we’re thoroughly familiar with foreign customs laws and will make sure that your shipments follow them explicitly. That includes making sure packed belongings are loaded into the appropriate overseas shipping containers, as specified. Loading When the truck and crew pull up at your stateside home, they’ll introduce themselves and perform a walk-through, acclimating themselves to your house and the furnishings and personal effects you’re moving. Next, they’ll take steps to shield your home while the move-out is in progess. They’ll pad stair rails, cramped corners, doors and jambs. And they’ll place carpet covers to keep floors clean and undamaged . In loading your possessions onto the truck, our crew will assure that moving boxes are marked and grouped by room to help with their placement in your new home. Beds, entertainment centers, swing sets and anything else that needs disassembling will be taken apart by our crew at this time. Finally, our crew performs quality checks and maintains communication with your Move Concierge during the loading process. Delivery When we get your shipment safely to your new home in your destination country, our crews take every precaution to unload it. Included in our destination-country delivery services are … employing protection pads and carpet covers to make sure your new home stays as it was before the move while the move-in is underway, systematic unloading – setting your household goods and personal effects into the rooms you tell us to put them in, rebuilding the equipment and furnishings taken apart for the move, unpacking – just let us know; we’ll handle it, and debris removal – where, if you want, we’ll cart off all the empty moving boxes and debris when the unpacking is completed. The Post-Move Follow-up Upon completion of your international move, your Move Concierge will get in touch with you to ... talk about it with you, determine how skillfully we provided the services you opted for discuss any lingering issues, and THANK YOU for letting us at A-1 Freeman Moving Group to be your mover! read what others have said about us Request a free quote