Moving & Relocating

How One Girl Left it All to Travel the World

There's no experience quite like leaving everything behind to travel the world. We wanted to know more about how to chase the wanderlust dream, so we spoke with Sarah Kehm, who did just that. Read about her experience for key insights on how to successfully become a world-traveler.
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How Self Storage Can Help Military Members and Families

Whether you’re relocating or deploying, self storage is a viable resource to store your belongings. Usually, military housing is quite small. Store your seldom-used items in a storage unit to save space. Read here for more information about how self storage can greatly benefit military members and families.
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The Complete Guide to Downsizing

There are plenty of good reasons to downsize your home, whether it be for financial reasons, location, or you simply don’t have the choice. Use this guide to help you determine whether or not you should downsize your home and how to make downsizing easier.

How to Manage a Deceased Estate

Have you been put in charge of handling a deceased estate? While losing your loved one is difficult, settling their belongings doesn't have to be. Follow these ten steps to making the process easier.
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5 Things to Know When Building a New Home

Building a new home is a very tricky process. You have to make long-lasting decisions, stay within your budget, and a whole myriad of other things. Consult these five tips to ensure that you’re on the right track to building the perfect home.
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How Self Storage Can Help When Building a New House

Are you in the process of building a new home? Have you already begun collecting furniture and other belongings that you want to put into your new home? Let’s be honest, it’s all sitting in your house taking up space, right? Learn how self storage can help so that you don’t have to turn your house into a jungle gym.
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Moving Made Easy: How to Inventory Your Belongings

During any move, you should have a complete inventory of your belongings. Read here for tips and an easy guide on how to inventory your belongings at home.
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The 7 Stages of Moving Day as Told in GIFs

Moving day can be hard, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be fun. Give yourself a break and find at which of the seven stages of moving you’re in, as well as some tips to make it better.
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7 Pro Tips for Staging Your Home for Sale

Need to stage your home for sale, but not sure where to start? We do, start here! Storage.com spoke with Karen Otto, owner and chief staging officer at Home Start Staging about exactly how to go about preparing a home for a showing. 
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Use Self Storage to Stage Your Home for Sale

One of the tricks to staging your home for sale is to keep everything minimal. The less items cluttering up your home, the better. Buyers are interested in homes that feel clean. Of course, you don’t want to just throw away your things in order to do so. Instead, use a self storage unit!