Consumption and Real Estate
How much should it cost to move a senior couple into a retirement community? (Pls read for details.)?
Question : How much should it cost to move a senior couple into a retirement community? (Pls read for details.)?
My parents live in a metro area in Calif. They need to move to a retirement community about 10 miles away. Their new apartment is a small 1BR–no appliances will be going. They need no extra services–just the move. I’d like them to hire a company which specializes in senior moves–there are special issues here.
I’d like to know:
Question 1: APPROX how much would a move with a specialty mover like this cost?
Question 2: APPROX how much would an ordinary equivalent 1BR apt 10 mile move cost with an ordinary mover?
(Assume for both we provide our own boxes and do all the packing ourselves.)
Thanks!
senior retirement communities
Best answer:
Answer by Stella
I’ve never heard of a company that does “senior moves”…I’d imagine that all companies do the same job, no matter what your age or circumstances. We moved a short distance a few years ago from one apartment to another – they charged for the time, not the distance. Cost us about $ 500.
I’d ring and get some quotes.
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#2 written by NickN 1 year ago
Not very much at all if concerned family does it for them.
Sounds like a lot of questions about money and not so much information on the “seniors”.
california has many agencies that respond to the needs of seniors. One thing that they do very well.
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I have heard of such a thing, but my brother and I went with a small traditional moving company and I think it cost close to $ 700 because we had them pack everything and unpack quite a bit. We also tipped very generously as unbeknowst to us, our parents were hoarders and pack rats.
OMG, the JUNK! My mother saved ever frickin’ plastic bag she ever got from a store. Boxes and boxes and suitcases, etc. were filled with empty plastic bags. Every now and then I would find a piece of jewelry in one! Which made it necessary for us to thoroughly search through all of the bags.
They only moved a few blocks away.
FYI:
They were paying for a special deal where my mother was considered “assisted,” while my dad was considered, “independent.”
That ran about $ 5000 or more per month. Once my mother died, my dad wanted to keep the two bedroom apartment. He had to agree to being an “assisted” person (Which he is! Alzheimer’s) and currently pays $ 3750 a month.