Moves for Seniors Review
The staff at Moves for Seniors pitches in to assist you as much or little as you like with preparing to move, downsize or relocate to a retirement community. Senior moving service packages range from labor-only for loading and unloading the moving van to concierge-like moving services where a specialist handles every detail of relocating. Moves for Seniors makes sorting, organizing, donating and disposing of years of accumulated items less stressful, whether you are moving or staying in your home. The Legacy Services help you deal with determining what to do with a loved one’s belongings after they pass away.
To differentiate Moves for Seniors from traditional moving companies, founder and CEO Chris Smith developed his vision of adding senior support and assistance to conventional moving services. Smith’s plans grew into a nationwide professional team dedicated to the needs of the senior housing industry and the residents moving into smaller homes or independent living and assisted living communities.
Moving to a retirement community or a smaller home usually requires downsizing a lifetime of possessions and memories, a burden significantly reduced by working with an impartial and compassionate professional from Moves for Seniors. We chose to include Moves for Seniors in our Best Senior Moving Services Guide because of the selection and variety of services the company provides.
Pros
- Full-service senior moving services company provides one contact for all moving plans and activities
- Offices in every state except Alaska
- Experience with the sales and marketing of retirement communities to better facilitate relocation
Cons
- Contact information required for a quote
Moves for Seniors Full Service Senior Moving Package
When you think of a concierge, visions likely come to mind of someone who can quickly find answers to any question and solutions to any problem. Moves for Seniors offers that level of assistance with your relocation. Senior Move Facilitation is a concierge-like moving service with a fully-credentialed Senior Move Facilitator who comes to your residence to discuss your needs, then manages every aspect of your relocation, from sorting through belongings to preparing boxes for moving or donations, to coordinating the pickup and delivery of your items to your new home. With the Senior Move Facilitation service, you have a moving specialist at your disposal at your current residence and at your new home.
A Senior Move Facilitator meets with you in your home for a free consultation to develop a floor plan for your new residence and determine where your furniture and other belongings will fit. The next phase involves sorting through belongings with help to decide which items will go to your new home, family and friends, be donated to charity or disposed of. The things you keep are safely packed up at the right time, and your facilitator works closely with the moving company to ensure loading and transport go smoothly. When your items arrive at your new home, everything is unpacked and staged according to the floor plan. If you move a long distance, you have one Senior Move Facilitator in the originating city and one in your new town.
Moves for Seniors Relocation Services
If you’re moving 50 miles or less, Moves for Seniors local moving service is a network of fully licensed, insured and vetted local moving partners to handle transporting your belongings. The company provides all boxes, materials and movers to pack your home then load, transport and unload your belongings. If you have some items that need storage, Moves for Seniors will unload those boxes at a secure local storage facility or a loved one’s home.
You may be one of over 130,000 retirees moving to a warmer climate. Moves for Seniors’ long distance service provides the same personal touch the local moving services offer, but with their nationwide network of specialty moving partners.
Moves for Seniors Discard & Donate Services
For those items you no longer need or use, Moves for Seniors’ Discard & Donate service smooths the process of sorting through everything and deciding what to do with each piece. These professionals understand the attachments we can have to our belongings and the difficulty of selling, giving away or disposing of some of these things. With your Discard & Donate advocate, you will go through the process of determining what to keep and what to let go of, then the service removes items you have selected from your home to deliver them to the charitable organization of your choice, family members or they will dispose of them.
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Moves for Seniors Labor-Only Services
A labor-only moving service gives you the opportunity to stay involved with your relocation preparations while avoiding the risk of injury. Moves for Seniors works with a network of fully insured and professional labor-only partners to be your muscle for the heavy lifting. With this service, you have no concern about who will load furniture, appliances, large boxes or other bulky items on and off the moving truck. Because these are professional movers, there is no concern about your belongings not being appropriately secured or getting damaged. When the moving van arrives at your new home, Moves for Seniors unloads the truck and places each item where you want it to be.
Moves for Seniors Legacy Services
When you are mourning the loss of a loved one, packing up, donating or discarding furniture, large family heirlooms, treasured belongings, and other personal items left behind can be one of the most challenging things you will ever do. With Legacy Services from Moves for Seniors, licensed and insured local partners carefully pack the things you want to keep in materials to prevent breakage, then load and deliver the items to anywhere in the U.S. Items for charitable donations are given to the organization of your choice and unwanted items are properly discarded or recycled.
Moves for Seniors Senior Community Services
Moves for Seniors offers services to senior community managers to assist incoming residents with the concierge-style Senior Move Facilitation package and moving services for incoming residents from local or long distance locations. Moves for Seniors also offers intra-community moving to assist residents who move between buildings or floors within a senior living community. Also, Moves for Seniors supports senior community management teams with marketing and risk management. Understanding the senior moving business from the resident and management perspective makes Moves for Seniors a particularly useful moving service for retirees.
Moves for Seniors Complaints
We couldn’t find many online reviews about Moves for Seniors including through the Better Business Bureau. Yelp reviewers give the company 3 out of 5 stars based on two reviews. Customers remark on how the company made their move much less stressful and spoke positively about professional and helpful staff members.
Moves for Seniors FAQ
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If I sign a contract with Moves for Seniors, how many people will work with me?
The total number of people involved varies by the services you select, however, one advantage of working with Moves for Seniors is the company hires and coordinates the people needed for the services you choose. This level of assistance cuts down on you making phone calls or answering text and email messages. If you use the Senior Move Facilitator service, you will have one consultant from the company coordinating and seeing through every aspect of your project, whether simple or complex, and you communicate with that person for simplicity. -
How much does it cost to have a consultation with Moves for Seniors?
Consultations are free. During this meeting, you’ll discuss what moving or organizing solutions you need. The Moves for Seniors consultant will give you pricing and explain your options. You can pick and choose from the various services offered to create a custom moving or downsizing package that fits your budget. -
Does Moves for Seniors provide a senior move facilitator for all services?
The Senior Move Facilitator service is just one senior moving package the company offers. You can use any of Moves for Seniors services a la carte, or they can design a moving support plan just for you. If you choose to use the Senior Move Facilitator package, one professional will coordinate every detail of your move while staying in touch with you. -
Can Moves for Seniors help me sell items before I move?
Yes, Moves for Seniors can help you set up a yard sale for items that have value, but you don’t want to donate or give away. The company has experience with organizing yard sales and can provide the muscle to move heavy items you sell. -
How do Moves for Seniors agents know how to organize things so well?
Every Moves for Seniors agent is certified by the National Association of Productivity & Organizing (NAPO). This association offers two tiers of training developed by a team of experienced professional organizers. NAPO’s certification requires learning about evaluating spaces, objects and data, decision-making, and assisting people with functional living and creating order. Productivity training encompasses understanding effective use of time, energy and resources to help clients prioritize and reach their personal goals.
Conclusion
Moves for Seniors offers professional services with well-developed programs and systems proven to simplify the senior moving process. The company can create a custom organizing and moving plan for you and guide you through each step of that plan, so you always have help when making decisions. The result is far less stress whether you are clearing items from your home or moving to a senior living community.