UNITS Mobile Storage of Milwaukee

  Moving Checklist – 1 Week Before Moving

• Finish packing and prepare an “essentials” box.  Designate several boxes and items as “last load” items.  Pack your suitcases and valuables separately.
• Drain all gas and oil from your mover, snow blower and other motors.  Gas grills, kerosene heaters, etc need to be emptied as well.  Remember you cannot pack any toxic materials or combustibles.
• Empty, defrost and clean your refrigerator at least 24 hours before moving day.  Prepare all appliances for loading by draining water and wrapping cords.
• Notify friends and family of your new address and how to reach you while you are moving.

 Remember when moving and storing with UNITS you have as many days as you need to load.  Load some everyday so the job is not overwhelming.  We can be reached at 414-476-8648 to answer your loading, moving and storing questions.

Moving Checklist – 2 Weeks Before Moving

• Contact your financial institution to transfer or close accounts.  Clear your safety deposit boxes and pick up some cash for “on the road” expenses.
• Confirm travel arrangements for pets, plants and family.
• Confirm mobile storage unit placement and obtain any permits.
• Put together a folder of important information about the house for the new owner (garage door access code, security system, appliance warranties, etc).
• Ask friends and family that have keys to your house to dispose of the key.

Mobile storage units allow you to stay in control of your move.  You pack your belongings with care and are the only one with the key to the mobile storage unit.  Contact UNITS Mobile Storage of Milwaukee at 414-476-8648 (UNIT) to stay in control of your move whether you are moving across county or just in the metro Milwaukee area.

Moving Checklist – 3 Weeks before Moving

• Make sure all library books and videos have been returned and that all dry cleaning have been pick-up.
• Start or continue packing items you don’t use often.
• Decide if you will keep your plants or give them away.  Remember, plants cannot be loaded with your other household items in portable storage units.   Consider taking a slip of the plant and moving it with you to your new home.
• Have your automobile(s) serviced and prepare for auto registration to be transferred.
• If moving to or from an apartment or condo, arrange to use the elevator on your loading and unloading days.

 UNITS Milwaukee will delivery your portable storage units on weekends to all the counties we service (Milwaukee, Waukesha, Jefferson, Dodge, Racine, Kenosha, Ozaukee and Washington).  Please call us soon at 414-476-8648 (UNIT) because the weekend schedule fills up fast.

 Moving Checklist – 4 Weeks Before Moving

• Reserve your moving and storing UNIT today.  Reserving early will help you get the delivery time that works best for you.  Remember, you can change your delivery time up to 24 hours before delivery at no charge.
• File a change of address form at the post office.  If you do not know your new address, ask the postal service to hold your mail at their office in your new city.
• Contact utility companies to disconnect, transfer or connect services.  Plan on keeping current services through your move date and having new ones available prior to your move-in date.
• Contact your newspaper and set a date to cancel your subscription.
• Make travel arrangements for pets.  Remember necessary medicines, and medical and immunization records.

Remember that moving can be stressful.  Ask if an extra moving and storing UNIT can be reserved just in case you need more room.  Call Janelle or Jim at 414-476-8648 for local customer care.  We live right here in Wisconsin and know how fun moving is in the Wisconsin weather!

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We started with a beautiful night on the outside patio at Leff’s Lucky Town in the village of Wauwatosa.   Glues where tweeted out by @UNITSMilwaukee to help patrons guess What’s in my UNIT?    Four prize packages where secure inside the locked storage UNIT.

Here are the clues for the first prize: Leff’s is pet friendly (yes, I bring my dog Reagan to Leff’s!); This prize is centrally located.  Can you guess What’s in my UNIT?  The lucky winner guessed a gift basket from Central Bark in Wauwatosa. 

The next prize package had clues that where a little harder to decipher: The Navy’s General; Don’t puck around; Roscoe is here.  Can you guess What’s in my UNIT?  The answer is The Admirals prize package including a zamboni ride at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee.

How are you doing?  Our third prize had lots of guessers, but only one lucky winner: We are brewin’ up a good time for you; Win this prize four fun; Tix toc tix toc time is running out.  Can you guess What’s in my UNIT?  Brewers’ tickets of course!  At this point in the night, we wished we had a retractable roof like Miller Park because it started to rain and we all had to move inside.  But, not to worry, the final prize was dry inside our storage UNIT.

Final prize and last chance to win: Beer belly be gone!!; You can go for a spin or a swim here; 6 Milwaukee area locations.  Can you guess What’s in my UNIT?  A one year membership to the WAC with locations in West Allis, Wauwatosa, Waukesha, Greenfield, Milwaukee and North Shore Wisconsin.

Congratulations to our winners!  Follow us @UNITSMilwaukee on twitter for the next What’s in my UNIT? Contest.

Moving Checklist – 5 Weeks Before Moving

• Plan ahead for your UNITS mobile storage container delivery to your current home and future home.   Contact your property manager or local municipality to ensure you will be complying with their packing rules and restrictions. 
• Have your yard sale or donate your items that are not being moved. 
• Continue collecting boxes and other packing supplies. You can order boxes and packing supplies from UNITS and they will be delivered with your portable storage unit. 
• Start packing items you don’t use often.
• Donate anything that did not sell at your yard sale and remember to get a receipt for income tax purposes.

UNITS will deliver a portable storage unit in Milwaukee county.  Both our warehouse and administrative offices are location in Milwaukee county.  We are locally owned and operated, give us a call at 414-476-8648.

Moving Checklist – 6 Weeks Before Moving

• Make list of items that are valuable or difficult to replace (grandma’s gold ring, passports, etc) and plan on carrying them with you or shipping by certified mail.
• Make list of friends, family and businesses that need to be notified of your move.
• Start working your way through each room taking inventory and deciding what to get rid of and what to move.  Start planning a yard sale or donating items to local charities.  Moving is a great time to recycle items you no longer need.
• Plan to use up items or dispose of items that cannot be moved, such as frozen foods, gasoline, kerosene and paint thinner.  Remember, no combustibles, plants, or animals can be stored in a portable storage unit. 
• Dispose of flammables, corrosives and poisons.  Contact your municipality for safe means of disposal.
• Subscribe to the newspaper in your new town to start learning about events and local culture.

UNITS delivers portable storage units as far south as Racine and Kenosha counties.  Phone UNITS of Milwaukee at 414-476-8648 with moving and packing questions.

Moving Checklist – 7 Weeks Before Moving

• Start pulling together medical and dental record.  Find new medical professionals and ask your existing medical professionals for a referral.
• Arrange to have school records transferred to your child’s new school or daycare.
• Call your insurance agent to see what changes to expect in your policies.  Ask if moving is covered and arrange for insurance for your new home. 
• If your insurance policy does not cover your belongings stored in the storage unit during your move, contact Tenant One for insurance coverage.
• Contact clubs (health, social, golf) that you have joined.  Ask how to end, sell or transfer your membership.
• Arrange for veterinarian records to be transferred.

UNITS delivers storage units as far north as Ozaukee and Washington counties.  We can be reached at 414-476-8648.

Many of our customers are overwhelmed with planning for a move.  I have broken down the big moving “to do” list into 11 “to do” lists starting 8 weeks before moving.  I hope these help!

Moving Checklist – 8 Weeks Before Moving

• Create a “move” file to keep track of estimates, receipts and other important documents.
• Check with IRS to see what expenses, if any, are deductable.
• Get a quote on your storage unit. 
• Budget for moving expenses and start collecting estimates.
• Start researching your new community.  Look for community guides on-line.
• Read up on moving and loading.   Check-out this blog for tips!
• Start collecting boxes, packing papers, packing peanuts and bubble wrap.
• Draw a floor plan of your new home and start deciding where your furniture and belongings will go when you unpack your storage unit.

Remember, UNITS deliveries their storage units as far west as Waukesha, Jefferson and Dodge counties.   Contact UNITS of Milwaukee at 414-476-8648.