What to Expect with Your International Residential Move

International moves can prove arduous. Rest assured we’ll expertly handle the difficulties, having relocated people across oceans and continents for so long. No matter if you’re moving from Austin 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 full responsibility for your international move all through …

The Moving Process

These are the steps you can count on us taking:

FREE Ballpark Pricing

With an international move, in particular, you’ll want some idea up front of what you’ll probably pay for such a move. Get on the phone with us. Speak with us. Advise us on where you’ve got to go, when you would prefer to or must go, and what type of a move you’d want us to manage for you. Reflecting our vast experience with global moving, we’ll give you a free ballpark estimate. This may or may not be the final price. Additional consultation with you will help determine that. But at least you’ll have a reasonable awareness of what to expect, finance-wise, in advance of signing a contract.

The Home Survey

To arrive at a final, accurate estimate of your move’s cost, we need to do an inventory of the belongings you’ll be transporting. We provide two options for accomplishing this:

1. A A-1 Freeman Moving Group estimator gives you a visit to consult with you on numerous aspects of your move, conduct a walk-through of your home, and take that inventory of your possessions.
2. By means of your mobile phone, you link to our estimator and handle your own home walk-through, recording a video inventory of what you need freighted.

The Written Estimate

After first meeting with you and examining your Home Survey results, we’re ready offer a more precise, written estimate of what you’ll pay for your international move. It encompasses everything associated with your move, including which moving services of ours you’ve selected.

The Customer Agreement

This is your move contract, which establishes locations, move dates and times, the moving services you’ve chosen, safety and insurance provisions, the cost, and other matters. Signing it attests that you approve of our terms and pricing and permits us to arrange for your relocation.

The Move Plan

To reassure you of an international move that’s smooth, safe, and hassle-free, we give you a Move Concierge – your very own, personal representative and counselor. He or she will guide you in planning your move from start to finish. In your first get-together, your Move Concierge will …

• establish your move dates,
• confirm the addresses involved locally and in the country to which you’re relocating,
• confirm which of our services you’ll be opting,
• provide introductory counsel in what’s likely in store for you during  your move, and
• provide answers to your questions.

From here on, your Move Concierge is your A-1 Freeman Moving Group “one point of contact.” You can depend on him or her being extremely knowledgeable about the complexities of international moving and counseling you properly – especially on customs laws from one country to another. As well as divulging vital information on your particular destination country, he or she also can assist you with ...

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

Then, as the move gets underway, your Move Concierge will keep you well informed of the latest developments.

The Pre-Move Confirmation

As your move date approaches, we’ll email or call you to make sure it’s still set to go per the plan. We’ll vet dates, times, locations, and everything else associated with your establishing a new home in a new country.

Packing

Our packing options are provided to more fittingly accommodate your needs and budget.

• Elect to handle all the packing by yourself; if you want, we’ll send you the packing materials.
• Elect to let our crew provide backup packing assistance. Or
• Elect to initiate the packing yourself and allow us help you by packing specialty items.

By whatever method you prefer to have your packing handled, our past clients will attest that we’re well up to speed on foreign customs laws and will make sure that your shipments comply. That includes seeing that packed items are loaded into the right overseas shipping containers, as specified.

Loading

When the truck and crew arrive at your stateside home, they’ll introduce themselves and carry out a walk-through, to get acquainted with your room layout and the furnishings and personal effects you’re transporting.

Next, they’ll perform certain actions to safeguard your home while the move-out is underway. They’ll pad stair rails, tight corners, doors and jambs. And they’ll lay carpet covers to keep floors free of dirt and damage .

In loading your possessions onto the truck, our crew will insure that moving boxes are labeled and inventoried by room to assist in their proper placement in your new home.

Beds, entertainment centers, swing sets and whatever else must be disassembled will be taken apart by our crew at this time.

Finally, our crew runs quality checks and keeps in communication with your Move Concierge all through the loading process.

Delivery

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

• the use of protection pads and carpet covers to ensure that your new home remains as it was before the move throughout the move-in,
• systematic unloading – unloading your belongings into the rooms you want them in, at your direction,
• putting back together those things that were disassembled for the move,
• unpacking – all you have to do is say the word; we’ll take care of it, and
• debris removal – where, if you want, we’ll dispose of all the empty moving boxes and supplies when the unpacking is done.

The Post-Move Follow-up

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

• review it with you,
• assess how accurately we provided the services you opted for
• discuss any lingering issues, and
• THANK YOU for calling on A-1 Freeman Moving Group!