7 Moving Mistakes That a Removal Company Can Fix
Moving is always a stressful event in your life. You have to uproot yourself from a place you call home, say goodbye to neighbors and old friends, and get used to the idea that you’ll soon be adjusting to unfamiliar places and faces. It even gets more difficult during the actual days of moving. The more stuff you own, and the more people who will move out with you (usually your family), the more challenging moving can be.
You need all the help you can get, and a reliable removal company will give that to you. A removal company can do all the work that you can easily overlook once stress gets the better of you. Here are some mistakes you can commit without the help of a removal company, and how a removal company can rectify those mistakes:
1.)Inefficiently packing your possessions so that they take up more space than necessary – A removal company will make sure that your possessions are packed in a way that minimizes the space they take up, thus enabling you to move more of your stuff with lesser trips or fewer vehicles.
2.)Not completely protecting your fragile possessions – A removal company will take special care to pack and transport breakable items such as china, porcelain etc. A removal company can assure that when you open the boxes, your breakable items will still be intact.
3.)Forgetting to pack some items and leaving them behind in your old home – A removal company will do thorough checking to make sure that everything you intend to take will be brought to your new home.
4.)Underestimating the number of boxes you have to transport, and thus ending up with inadequate transportation – A removal company will be able to calculate just how many removal vans and people you will need in order to successfully and safely transport your possessions.
5.)Failing to get your most prized possessions insured – A removal company will be ready to offer you insurance for items that can get spoiled, lost, or broken during the journey. Although a good removal company knows that accidents will most likely not happen because of their due diligence, they know that it’s better to be ready for the unexpected.
6.)Not considering the damage that can be done to the flooring – During moving out from the old home to the new one, boxes and furniture can be unwittingly dragged on the floor. A removal company will make sure that your floors, both in your old and new home, are protected from scratches and stains.
7.)Nor being able to figure out what to do with your extra stuff – If you are moving to smaller home and you can’t bring all your things, you can avail of storage space, one of the usual services a removal company offers. You can keep your possessions in a warehouse rented out to you by the removal company.
So the next time you’re moving, get help from a removal company. You will not be sorry.
Nick V
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Do bailiffs have the right to make mistakes? (i.e. enter a wrong person's property)?
Hi,
I have recently moved to the UK and I am now renting a flat. I received a letter from "Equita" to my address a few days ago. I opened it because it was "delivered by hand". The letter is a "bailiff removal" notice, saying that a bailiff came to my door, and dropped this letter, and that next time, he will enter and remove goods even in my absence.
Problem is: this letter is not addressed to me, but to another person I have never heard about, except that I keep receiving his mail (about 4-5 letters a week) since I moved in this place, 6 months ago.
Obviously, I don’t want the bailiffs to enter my house and take my goods (it will be theft, no?), and I don’t really know what to do. I have sent an e-mail to the bailiff company explaining their mistake. Do they have the right to enter my house? Aren’t they supposed to check if it’s the right person before looting everything?
Thanks for any of your help concerning this.
HJF.
To "Feeling Mutual": That’s what I did, moron. I just want to have the "community" opinion about that, as well as some law info.
I’m not really sure about the laws in the UK but I think you should go to your local police station with your lease agreement and identification along with that notice and have your name cleared. I definitely don’t think you should ignore this. I imagine that unless they have proof that the fellow for whom they are looking has vacated the premises they will be able to enter and remove the items.
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Don’t rely on emails. Post a recorded delivery letter to the bailiff’s office, and the county court (if any, known) with their reference or order/case numbers. Explain the facts, telling them you that the person moved out; you don’t know the person; you don’t have the person’s previous, current or future forwarding addresses; ask them to amend their/all papers and computer records IMMEDIATELY/accordingly. Then send a standard or similar letter to ALL other debt collectors.
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Contact the bailiff company/court advising them that the previous occupant has left the address and offer to show them a copy of your tenancy agreement which will show both your name and the date you took up residence.
Presumably there will have been mail to the address prior to the bailiff calling for the previous tenant which referred to this debt. Always ensure that any official mail (normally has a return address on the envelope) is put back in the post with the envelope clearly marked "No longer at this address" or "Not known at this address". If this had happened the Court would have advised the creditor prior to a warrant being issued to the bailiff and you probably wouldn’t have been bothered.
Providing you have a copy of your tenancy agreement or a bill addressed to you at that address in your name (therefore proving you are not the person he’s after) shouldn’t be a problem if he calls again.
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