Moving

If you've got extra funds, it may be beneficial to look at purchasing a vacation home in a more friendly state with an eye to eventually moving there. It can also serve as a safe haven to keep a safe with whatever gets banned in IL, as well as potential rental income source.

He may be able to get and empty one there, but I bet the truck could not load it back on, once the container is loaded!

PAul

Ohhh, NOOoooooo! Moving to my present house was a HUGE ordeal, and it took YEARS to find all the missing stuff. I found an expensive pump pliers (sim. to channel-lock) in a box of pillows, years later!

It took well over 10 years to recover, but on the other hand, I REALLY needed the space. It was also wonderful to have a basement that stayed dry!

Jon

Yeah, yeah, in THIS group, you need say NO MORE!

Jon

So what are you doing with your current home? House prices are lower for both buyer and seller and that person may be you.

Man space and land is always a plus. Sorry to learn you didn't move to Indiana though.

Wes

-- "Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller

Turn off autocorrect ;)

Wes

No, that was me. I don't use autocorrect.

I hate it when I finally read what I wrote and have posted it already.

Wes

Keep the old place. Demolish the house. Build a new shop on the space left from the house. Get a high speed all weather rail link to and from wherever the new house is. Send the espousa(s) out for a second job to pay for it all. Give keys, access codes and the like to no one but you.

Bob AZ

EXACTLY

I moved 18 years ago and it was only a three mile move. The number one thing I learned is its too much work to move.

Karl

Eh, you whusses. I moved 1,700 miles and had no problems. My shop was up and running in short order, stuff unpacked in an orderly fashion based on my detailed inventory of what was packed where, and I was fully online with two phone lines and cable modem a day before the semi arrived. Piece of cake, you just have to be organized :)

My sympathies. Packing a shop is painful. Little by little you lose functionality until you're down to a handful of screwdrivers, pliers, and hammer. A regression through the process of building up the shop. Reminds me of HAL's decommissioning in "2001 - A Space Odyssey".

Bob

Grand Dad used to claim "Three moves is equal to a fire". Gerry :-)} London, Canada

Yup. I've never seen anyone in that state over a move.

Moving is like... changing a flat tire. It's a pain in the ass, but you just do one step after the other, and in no time it's done. Not routine, but not that big a deal either... except when the tire goes flat during a thunderstorm and you're off the road in a mud puddle! ;-)

I moved using three containers, two of them 20' in size, one 40' in size. I had to hire a crane at both ends of the move to have the containers loaded and unloaded from the trucks.

Harold

it back on, once the container is loaded!

I moved with a 40' container, delivered with a tilt-tray. I loaded it with everything, 2 metal lathes, 2 wood lathes, mill, sawbench and all my tools, shelving, workbenches, steel and wood stock and furniture. I had to give away about 300 turning blanks in Jarrah, NI pine, Olive, Sheoak and various other timbers as there was no room left in the container.

The same truck picked it up and dropped it off at my son's property where it was stored for a few months, then it was moved with a side-loader to my new house, unloaded and returned empty to my son's where he uses it to store steel and car parts.

Alan

Looks like the sellers BSed us on something very important, so after all, it may not happen!

The funnest part of moving is when you start to unpack, and realize you have 17 boxes on the living room floor all labeled "Misc." ;-)

Cheers! Rich

OH, oh! What was that? Well, WAY better you found out before you signed any papers!

The first house I owned had so many concealed problems, I could write a BOOK! When it rained, the porcelain tile basement literally had JETS of water streaming out of the walls and hitting the floor two feet away!

When the home inspector was working through the place, he found something that didn't look right. One look and I knew the place had had a SERIOUS fire. The front half of the house had "new" 2x12 joists, the back had "old" 2x10s, as in pre-1938 or so, when the wood measure was different. There was a step in the floor height at the transition of about an inch.

There was still old, partially burned wiring in the place from the fire.

We had trees growing into the soil line, and I would run a snake down there and fill a small trash can with roots. What a messy job!

There's more, but I'll spare you the details.

Jon