House is SOLD

[TCN]

31 days on the MLS and we are in escrow. The house we are buying is a short sale/BK/Repo whatever they are calling it so we will be residentially challenged for a few weeks but that's what toy haulers are for right. We are moving our stuff into PODS? Anyone have any experience with these storage boxes? Escrow closes May 1st. Nick

[voodoomedman]

31 days on the MLS and we are in escrow. The house we are buying is a short sale/BK/Repo whatever they are calling it so we will be residentially challenged for a few weeks but that's what toy haulers are for right. We are moving our stuff into PODS? Anyone have any experience with these storage boxes? Escrow closes May 1st. Nick
PODS are expensive. Call around and you can find a place that will deliver the metal intermodal type containers that lock and then you load those. They will then leave them there if you want or take and store them in their yard. Much much cheaper than PODS.

[TheCarDudes]

We did a similar deal a couple of years ago. We sold our house and lived in motorhome next to the new house for 2 months while we remodeled.
Moving companies are set up to move and store. The extra charge for them to store our stuff was approx $800 per month. I'm talking 2 fully loaded semi trailers. They just leave all the stuff packed on the trailer and park it for 2 months at their facility. To move a family of 5 with plenty of furniture including them doing the packing and storing it for 2 months was a total of about $6,000. Well worth it.

[TheCarDudes]

31 days on the MLS and we are in escrow. The house we are buying is a short sale/BK/Repo whatever they are calling it so we will be residentially challenged for a few weeks but that's what toy haulers are for right. We are moving our stuff into PODS? Anyone have any experience with these storage boxes? Escrow closes May 1st. Nick
Congrats by the way on selling the house. We just put ourselves in to a similar deal again right now. Sold our current house in 37 days. COE is 5/2 plus 10 for free. Bought a new house where COE is June 15th. Hopefully we can get a rent back from our buyer, otherwise we will go into corporate housing around here and store our stuff again. Mama can't handle the RV deal again.

[Mrs. 20]

I'm jealous. The houses in Phoenix are sitting for 6 months to a year right now.

[OGShocker]

PODS are expensive. Call around and you can find a place that will deliver the metal intermodal type containers that lock and then you load those. They will then leave them there if you want or take and store them in their yard. Much much cheaper than PODS.
Maybe UPS could get into this business. On second thought, they would be apt to crushing the containers on pick up...

[ChumpChange]

My brother just moved into his new house last weekend. His previous house closed two weeks prior. He didn't have too much stuff as it was just he and his wife. We moved him into a Public Storage facility where the first month was just $1. We moved him out within a month so a dollar is all he spent. The bad part about it was that I had to help him move TWICE.

[DelawareDave]

I sold my old house last year. I moved into the new one before I even listed the old one. Listing went out Wed, got offer on Thursday, signed on Friday. Closed 30 days later.

[UnionJack]

I used pods, wasn't bad at all nothing broke and they even let my wife go down there and get stuff out of it

[TCN]

Thanks. I think we are going to do it. 2 big 8x8x16 containers and 1 mos storage is only 500 and change and they pick up take away and deliver to the new house.