Protect Your Move

Posted by David Piotrowski

Whenever you move your household, you want to make sure you protect your move by taking appropriate and prudent steps to minimize the possibility of problems. To help protect your move, you should do the following before deciding on a moving company:

• Get your estimate in writing.
• Get moving estimates from multiple moving companies.
• Protect your move by asking your sales rep to clarify and questions you have before the move day.
• Ask the mover to provide you with their delivery timeframe.
• Find out of your estimate is binding or non-binding.
• Protect your move by asking if your mover will provide a visual estimate. This is required unless an exception applies.
• Protect your move by reading and following this moving checklist.
• Visit the Protect Your Move website. This is a website published by the FMCSA.

The Protect Your Move website says, “Moving to a new home is a significant event that is often stressful, and the U.S. Government, in partnership with the moving industry, law enforcement and consumer groups, is arming consumers with the information they need to protect themselves against one of the most stressful situations that can plague a household move: being taken advantage of by a dishonest or rogue mover.”

The Protect Your Move site offers valuable ways to help protect against moving fraud and offers helpful information on making your move less stressful.

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