1.       Pack Everything!

Pack literally everything you have in good quality, filled and closed boxes.  Even if you have to spend some money on good boxes, you will save substantially.  Moving and stowing a box on the truck is much faster than moving individual items and having to find a secure place to store in on the truck.  Putting items in boxes also reduces damage, which will save you money too.

2.       Stage Boxes

Something as simple as putting all of your pre-packed boxes in the front room or garage of your home can be simple to do and greatly simplify your move.  This is something you can do in little bits in the weeks before your move, and save a lot of time on move day.

3.       De-Clutter

All professional movers will tell you from experience that many people have way too much stuff!  There is no point in moving something that will not be used at your new home, or that will simply be thrown out when you get there.

We recommend selling or donating surplus furniture as well as taking advantage of a garage sale or a junk removal service to get rid of unused or unwanted items.

4.       Be Prepared!

Start weeks before your move getting ready.  Check out our downloadable helpful checklist of things to do before your move by clicking on this link: http://firemenmovers.com/tips.php

Not being prepared on your move day can easily double the time (and cost) it takes to move you, as well as add to the stress, frustration and potential for damage to your contents.

5.       Ensure Easy Access to Your Home

This could be ensuring that the moving truck can park in front of your home (if parking is scarce).  Or it could mean clearing any snow or ice the movers may have to walk on.  Walking to and from the truck represents the majority of the time of a mover’s day.  Even if you can save a few steps or make this a bit easier it greatly speeds up the move.

Jiffy Toronto matches private donations for Pakistan flood victims.

We are disappointed that the response from Canadians was not forthcoming in the same magnitude that resulted in many Canadians donating money for the earthquake victims in Haiti. Perhaps, if this major catastrophe had happened first, there might have been more support. I suppose that we will never understand the reasons for less support from Canadians. While we acknowledge that there is and continues to be a need for support in Haiti, there is still much that can be done by Canadians for relief of the flood victims in Pakistan.

The Canadian government has announced an extension of the matching of donations until October 3 and Jiffy Self Storage pledges to match donations that will be made at the Jiffy Self Storage office up to $500.  If we can collect $500, we can leverage this donation to $2,000. Please give with open hearts for a cause that is essential for saving lives and preventing diseases and untold suffering.

What this decline means for Torontonians selling homes is that there will be more supply, fewer sales and more competition among sellers of resale homes.

For sellers to get top selling prices, they will have to remove all stops and show the house in the most and best marketable condition.

This means a thorough cleaning of the home from top to bottom and removal of all clutter from the space. There is no one better than a professional Toronto home stager to achieve these goals. They will advise you what stuff stays and what stuff goes, how to best show off your various spaces and even supply scaled updated furniture if there are some spaces that are lacking furniture to best show off your house.

Some stagers will not remove clutter offsite but store it in a corner of the seller’s basement or in a garage because the home owner is trying to save money. This is definitely not the way to do things.

Any clutter that will be removed from the Toronto resale home should be stored offsite. This means that stuff should at least be stored at a parent’s or friend’s basement or garage. However, if you do not want to impose on friends or family, then your neighborhood Toronto self storage is ideal for this type of thing. The gain in the sale price will more than compensate for the inconvenience of storing your clutter offsite.

Not only that, you’ll get an early start on packing and once the clutter is removed, it is easier later on to remove the core furniture without all the packing of knick knacks and various other clutter. 

Whether you need short or long term storage, look for Toronto storage reviews of self storage companies that have unblemished reputations for storing your clutter. Take the example of  Jiffy Self Storage in Toronto. They have a perfect record of zero complaints with the Toronto Better Business Bureau, have been featured in Toronto Life Magazine’s annual Best of the City reviews as, “Toronto’s Best Storage” and have won the Consumer’s Choice Award for Business Excellence 14 consecutive times.

To meet this business card need, Jiffy Self Storage in Toronto GTA has partnered with one of the best known, wholesale “design online” business card firms in North America. Just access the business card design interface and often in less than 5 minutes, a professional custom design can be ready for purchasing.

Many of our trades and business persons (including general contractors, independent business owners, IBOs, distributors, landscapers and more) have purchased these spectacular design online business cards because the choice of designs is almost limitless. There are more than 15,000 color backgrounds to choose for virtually every profession and delivery of these custom business cards can be as quick as the next business day. Not only are the full color business cards inexpensive, but frugal companies that are looking for even greater value and cheaper business cards, can purchase raised thermographic business cards and also get quick turnaround from start to finish. If a businessman or businesswoman is looking to dazzle their clients with design online business cards, professional thick aluminum business cards with rounded corners in gold or clear anodized aluminum can be custom designed online and purchased as well.

Besides businesses located at Jiffy Self Storage, anyone can purchase business cards and expect to get the same quality cards as persons renting Jiffy Toronto public storage workspaces and Jiffy Mini Storage units in Toronto.

Home staging is the design process of de-personalizing a private residence prior to putting it up for sale. This is often achieved by undertaking all or some of the following: Decluttering, depersonalizing, updating, painting, rearranging furniture, renting furniture and accessorising.

Moving your clutter into a Toronto mini storage facility like Jiffy Self Storage is a small cost relative to the increased benefit of selling your home for a much higher price and you will be getting a head start on packing that will also eliminate some stress down the road.

Research has shown that a home stager can cut a home listing’s time by half and can fetch a higher sale price. A recent survey of home sellers found that staged homes sold for 6.9 percent more than homes that were not home staged. If you are selling a Toronto GTA home, and if the average selling price of a Toronto real estate home is about $450,000, a  well staged home could fetch as much as $30,000 more than the average unstaged Toronto resale home.

Professional home staging could be the best money a home seller could ever spend. Don’t let the relative small cost of a professional home stager diminish the likelihood of getting a quicker sale at a much higher price.