Before and After: Relocation

Most people plan to take care of their move themselves, but few realize that an average move takes over 200 hours of your time! (How’s that possible? Check out our Move Checklist for the hundreds of "time eaters" Seriatim can spare you!) Whatever the challenge, we can help you face it. Seriatim offers dozens of solutions to take the stress out of domestic and international relocation. Maybe you want to downsize your basement filled with 30 years of who-knows-what before spending money to pack and move it. Maybe you can’t get away from work, and need someone at home to make sure your boxes arrive safely. Whatever the challenge, we can help you face it.

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"I had a complex, multifaceted move involving 25,000 documents, 8,000 books, four archives, two artist studios, 400 animals — not to mention personal items. My possessions were, in fact, extremely organized before Seriatim; the complexity and nuance of preserving this organization are what made this move potentially problematic… In the end, everything was carefully catalogued, photographed, and moved with nothing lost or broken, and everything was put back into its original arrangement. The personnel was intelligent, friendly, emotionally supportive where necessary, and able to grasp the complexity of the overall move, as well as the details. I will never move again without Seriatim’s involvement!"

— Richard P., Scientist, New York, NY

"Even though we had mentally prepared for our move, after living in one large apartment for 28 years, we weren’t nearly prepared to downsize our living quarters and move our office to a separate locale within the space of three months. To be frank, we approached Seriatim without a clear idea of why or how they could help us. We consider ourselves tidy and organized, but we were totally unprepared for the task of halving our living space… In addition, we were surprised by how differently my husband and I approached the move. We needed a problem solver, a marriage counselor, a confessor, someone with more stamina than we had, someone with a fresh eye who saw our belongings in a new way, and someone with a sense of humor. We got all those things and more with the team at Seriatim… We must have been crazy to try to think we could do it ourselves!"

— Liv and Willi B., Literary Agents, New York, NY