Moving heavy objects from LA to NY... any ideas?

[Inspect-her Gadget]

Hey guys... I just got accepted to NYU dental school.. and I live in LA... I'm stoked... but I have sooo much cool **** I can't live without. The problem is, I can't have my car in NY, so I'm not driving it there. I have like two huge speakers, a 200lb 35 inch Sony TV, and prob about 5 or so heavy boxes of crap. Any suggestions on how to move all this crap?

I know uhauls and stuff are risky (along the way at a hotel, can get jacked)... plus there's gas and hotel and food and stuff to pay for also.

I don't even wanna imagine how much it would cost to take on a flight with me.

I don't have any clue how much ground shipping for these would be.

Anyone been in the same situation as me before? any suggestions will help! thank-a-mundo!

[Speedfreak]

Rent a Pitbull and put him in the back of the Uhaul.

[coleslaw]

The cost of renting a U-Haul would almost be as much as replacing the items that you wish to move. When I moved from Ohio to Texas, a U-Haul and a car transport cost me about $1700 including mileage, which was only 1200 miles. LA to NY is a bit more than that.

Learn to live without those luxuries for a while and save yourself some cash.

[gear02]

There are moving companies which basically park a trailer in front of your house. You fill it up to whatever you need, and the moving company will lease the rest of the space to someone else or some other company. Then they'll drive it to your destination and park it there for you to unload. This might help, but I'm not sure how to park a trailer in NYC. It is cheaper though than regular movers.

I'd say, though, to sell as much as possible of the big stuff (i.e. your tv) and when you move buy new ones. I mean you'll probably end up paying almost half of what your stuff its worth. Might as well get new stuff.

[brain]

Use FedEx freight services. Put the stuff on pallets. Shipping usually comes down to about $1/lb.

[mojo]

try a freight shipping company. that was recommended to me about a bazillion times when i moved, and i did find it to be pretty cheap compared to conventional movers. just get prices for if they box it and put it on a pallet vs if you do it yourself, then see if a friend can help you for the do it yourself version.

[ray]

my friend and i hired movers to move us from boston to los angeles. between the two of us we had about 90 printer paper boxes, a bed and boxspring, 8 tower speakers, two 80lb subwoofers, a bicycle and my dj equipment. The total for the move was about $2,000.00. That price was for movers to pick up our boxes, load them, ship them and then unload to wherever we desired. All we did was pack the boxes.

I would guess that with the amount of stuff we had, it would have cost more if we rented a UHaul and spent our time driving it cross country. After calculating the money we could have made driving cross country (let's say 6 days do it), that's 48 hours I could have worked, at a low-ball $7.00/hour. That is $336.00. Now, figure in gasoline. We'll say those large uhaul trucks get 20/mpg (yeah right). Boston to Los Angeles is 3,000 miles. that's 150 gallons of gasoline. $1.50/gallon for gasoline: $225.00. Figure in food/hotel: 40/day/person. All in all, your expenses start to add up when you do it all yourself. Since you're going to be in NYC for the few years, and if you really wanted all your belongings, then just ship it there. The cost to do it for a long-term move far outweighs buying everything new, imho.

[MadCool]

Originally posted by Speedfreak
Rent a Pitbull and put him in the back of the Uhaul.

LOL!!

[faither]

Carry-on is out of the question. I agre with Brain -- FedEx Freight is reputable and pretty economical.

[attgig]

do you have that much stuff?
maybe renting a minivan would work?
cheaper...and usually unlimited miles compared to uhaul.

[brainsmile]

sell it all... believe me my friends who went to columbia and nyu dental: they never did anything but study. I doubt you will either.

[mojo]

Originally posted by Yossarian
brain, jenny needs you to chek yer pms

everyone, yoss is jenny's biznatch

[Inspect-her Gadget]

Hey thanks for all your help guys... I think I'm gonna go with either having movers do it... or selling everything here and buying there... how sad, though... I feel like I'm selling off my kids or something...

Now I gotta figure out what to do with my snake... I have a 40 gall tank with a 3 foot ball python in it... I guess I could part with it, but he's been with me for about 3 years now. Dang... this sucks! Oh yeah... I have a dwarf hamster too... I wonder if they would let me have him on the plane with me?