Tips on Moving

You’ve visited various moving blogs looking for ways to introduce yourself to your neighbors, but you haven’t found quite the right approach yet. After all, you are a more private person, and that’s okay. But this means that the typical housewarming party might not work for you. Luckily, you don’t have to fill your home with…

Done packing and think you’re ready to move? Not so fast. If you are leaving an apartment behind and want to retrieve your security deposit, you need to leave the property spotless. Even if you are moving from a house, you still want to clean whatever appliances you are taking and leave the new owners…

Are you restless where you live? Maybe you are a college student who wants to have more opportunities to socialize. Or maybe you have always lived in the same state and want new scenery. Perhaps, you just want more space for your family and for yourself. If this is so, you’ve probably been spending time…

Since this is National Truck Driver Appreciation Week we will take a closer look at Wheaton World Wide Moving trucks and the equipment that our truck drivers use on a daily basis when moving household goods. Straight Truck Used to haul shipments typically less than 500 miles.  Holds about 14,000 lbs. Also used as a shuttle…

The dining room’s main function is serving meals, eating and socializing on special occasions. The well-defined purpose leaves you with a clear goal in organizing the room: to make serving and enjoying meals as pleasant and simple as possible. The dining room is defined by the furniture you use and the “service circle.” The service…

The second most important room – the first being the kitchen – to unpack after moving your household goods is the bedroom. The bedroom should be a place where you relax and prepare yourself for the day ahead. Relaxation will come much easier if the bedroom is organized and clean. In part two of our…

Wheaton Employees Get Moving Let’s just say Wheaton employees ‘get moving’ on many levels.  When they are not focused on relocating household goods with intricate care, they are on the move training for half marathons such as the 2014 Indy Mini-Marathon that will take place on May 3, 2014. Five employees from the corporate office…

The relationship between Senior Move Managers and a full service moving company is a symbiotic one.   Both parties are dependent on one another and receive mutual benefits by working with each other.  The first step in grasping the relationship between a Senior Move Manager and a van line like Wheaton is to have a good understanding…

What’s a moving broker? Often times, moving brokers are described as the middlemen between the customer and the moving company.  The theory behind a broker is that you as the customer could have access to several competitive moving quotes through one single source: the broker. While there are of course many moving brokers who run…

Google is ubiquitous, and certainly by now there’s not a computer user on the planet who has not used Google in some manner.  Since we are always trying to take the stress out of moving for our moving customers, we decided to investigate the many free tools Google makes available and how those tools could…