My wife and I moved from Oklahoma to Ohio last Summer. I had a 1600sf house, a 35x40 shop, a 24x24 shop, 5 cars, 2 dogs, and a cat. We moved into a 600sf one bedroom apt. Here’s how it went.
House was on the market when we moved and with only my new job on the Ohio end we had to get an apt here. We sold/donated basically everything we weren’t super attached to or didn’t have intrinsic monetary or practical value. I prepped the tree vehicles I was leaving behind for storage.
18’ Penske Truck + car trailer for me and the wife following in her car.
That was in July, by late September the house sold, so I flew down and packed all the cars and tools I had in the shop into a storage locker and the cars went to my folk’s place for the time being.
We recently got a house and are fixing it up to move into, so I paid to have my cars shipped up here in one shot (cheapest way to get them here and not burn leave time). At the end of June I’m driving home, getting my trailer and clearing out my locker.
It’s actually been a ton of fun getting to find antiques and cool stuff on CL to furnish the new place.
Penske had the best rates, by far. If you book online they take 15% off and if you have AAA I think an additional 10%. You also get a cut for booking way ahead. From Lawton, OK to Cleveland, OH was around $850 (1000 miles, one week, full insurance).
