What to Expect with Your International Residential Move

International moves are all too often fatiguing. Don’t fret. We have ways to tackle the difficulties, having gotten people to all sorts of countries for ages now. It really doesn’t matter if you’re traveling from Little Rock 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 make sure your household gets where it’s got to go. We accept full responsibility for your international move throughout …

The Moving Process

These are the steps you can We perform every one of the following matters attendant to your move:

FREE Ballpark Pricing

With an international move, in particular, you’ll want some idea up front of what such a move will cost you. Ring us up. Talk with us. Tell us where you’ve got to go, when you want or need to go, and what sort of a move you’d want us to perform for you. Referring to our considerable experience with global moving, we’ll give you a free ballpark estimate. This may or may not be the final price. Further meetings with you will help resolve that. But at least you’ll have some notion of what to expect, price-wise, prior to committing fully.

The Home Survey

To reach a final, accurate estimate of your move’s cost, we’re obligated to conduct a survey of the belongings you’ll be moving. We have two options for taking care of this:

1. A A-1 Freeman Moving Group estimator meets with you at your home to consult with you on numerous elements of your move, conduct a walk-through of your home, and take that survey of your possessions.
2. Using your mobile phone, you hook up with our estimator and handle your own home walk-through, recording a video inventory of what you need moved.

The Written Estimate

Once we’ve consulted with you and taken into consideration your Home Survey results, we’re able to offer a more specific, written estimate of what you’ll be billed for your international move. It takes into consideration everything relating to your move, including which moving services of ours you’ve indicated you want.

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 price, and other details. Signing it signifies that you agree to our terms and pricing and permits us to arrange for your international move.

The Move Plan

To make sure you have an international move that’s smooth, safe, and hassle-free, we give you a Move Concierge – your very own, exclusive representative and counselor. He or she will assist you in planning your move from beginning to end. In your introductory discussion, your Move Concierge will …

• confirm your move dates,
• establish the addresses involved here in the states and in your destination country,
• establish which of our services you want,
• provide preparatory advice on what you can anticipate happening in your move, and
• address your questions.

From here on, your Move Concierge is your A-1 Freeman Moving Group “one point of contact.” You can rely on him or her being fully conversant with the complexities of international moving and alerting you appropriately – particularly on customs laws from one country to another. Besides providing you with important information on your specific destination country, he or she also can help you with ...

• passports,
• visas,
• automobile titles, and
• all other required international paperwork.

Then, as the move commences, your Move Concierge will keep you fully up to date on the latest developments.

The Pre-Move Confirmation

As your move date approaches, we’ll email or call you to see that you’re still “good to go” with it, as set forth in the plan. We’ll make sure of dates, times, locations, and everything else relating to your settling in a new country.

Packing

Our packing options were initiated to better match your needs and budget.

• Choose to do your own packing; if you want, we’ll send you the packing materials.
• Elect to let our movers help you pack. Or
• Choose to start out packing yourself and authorize us to help you by packing specialty items.

Regardless of how you choose to have your packing done, you can be confident we’re well up to speed on foreign customs laws and will assure that your shipments conform. That includes assuring packed goods are loaded into the appropriate overseas shipping containers, as applicable.

Loading

When the truck and crew pull up at your stateside home, they’ll introduce themselves and do a walk-through, to get acquainted with your floor plan and the belongings you’re freighting.

Next, they’ll do what’s necessary to shield your home as they move things out. They’ll pad stair rails, sharp corners, doors and jambs. And they’ll lay carpet covers to keep floors clean and undamaged .

In loading your belongings onto the truck, our crew will make sure moving boxes are marked and classified by room to help with their placement in your new home.

Beds, entertainment centers, swing sets and anything else that requires disassembly will be taken apart by our crew at this time.

Finally, our crew conducts quality checks and stays in close contact with your Move Concierge during the loading process.

Delivery

After we’ve gotten your possessions safely to your new home in your destination country, our crews get it unloaded with extreme care. Among our destination-country delivery services are …

• using protection pads and carpet covers to ensure that your new home remains spotless during the move-in process,
• systematic unloading – unloading your belongings into the rooms you tell us to put them in,
• reassembling items broken down for the move,
• unpacking – simply let us know; we’ll get it done, and
• debris removal – where, if you like, we’ll dispose of all the empty moving boxes and debris when the unpacking is finished.

The Post-Move Follow-up

Upon completion of your international move, your Move Concierge will contact you to ...

• go over it with you,
• examine how well we executed the services you opted for
• talk with you about any remaining situations, and
• THANK YOU for engaging us at A-1 Freeman Moving Group!