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Monday, February 8th, 2010
Professional Moving Tips for the Do-It-Yourselfer
By Jim Carey - Go Mini’s of NY, NJ & CT
Serving Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange, Rockland, Ulster, Bergen, Fairfield and Litchfield
Our second in a series of professional moving tips for the do-it-yourself mover. If you have rented a portable storage container from Go Mini’s or anyone else, you are going to want to know how to best take care of your personal belongings. Refer to this blog as often as necessary to find the tips of all kinds. These are tips the pros would use too.
Tip #2 - Packing fragile dishes and stemware
So you have made the decision to move yourself. Well we have some good advice for you when it comes to packing your fragile dishes and stemware. Let’s start with the first step in packing your own fragile items. Get the best boxes or plastic containers you can. If the pros were packing for you, they would use a very sturdy cardboard box to pack your fragile dishes and stemware. The box the pros use is much more sturdy than other boxes they will use. Ask Go Mini’s for a triple wall corrugated box. Movers refer to these boxes as “dish-paks” or “dish barrels”. The standard volume of this box is 5.2 cubic feet.
With the correct type of box selected, we can move on to wrapping and packing. Get clean paper. WARNING!!! - Old Newspapers can leave ink stains on fine china. Go Mini’s of NY, NJ and CT offers un-printed newspaper. Place your item to be wrapped on the corner of the paper and wrap the paper and fold in the sides. Usually you can create a double layer or more using this technique. For larger items, like dinner plates, you will not get a double layer. So start by wrapping the plate in two pieces of paper at the same time.
BEFORE YOU PUT ANYTHING IN THE BOX - Crumple up several pieces of paper and make a cushion-y layer in the bottom of your box. Now you can begin to put dishes in the box. Start by putting your larger items in like plates. If you have a set of plates, they will fit together nicely. Then surround your plates with another cushion of crumpled up paper. You are going to work your way up from the bottom building a series of layers. Crumpled up paper is the key. Keep using it between layers of dishes. Make sure to not leave any empty spaces in the box. This way, the box will not settle and neither will the dishes packed inside.
Go Mini’s portable storage containers make it easy to move and store your own items. Now you have advice to pack like the experts. Always check back to see the latest Professional Moving Tips for the do-it-yourselfer.
Go Mini’s of NY, NJ & CT is an authorized exclusive dealer for Go Mini’s Portable Storage Containers in the Metropolitan New York area serving the counties of Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Rockland, Orange, Ulster NY, Bergen NJ, Fairfield and Litchfield, CT. Call us at 866-Go Mini’s to help you move or store today.
Tags: do it yourself moving and storage, Go Mini's, packing dishes, portable storage containers, professional moving tips
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Professional Moving Tips for the do-it-yourselfer
By Jim Carey - Go Mini’s of NY, NJ and CT
As previously announced, we are pleased to bring you our first in a series of professional moving tips for the do-it-yourself mover. If you have rented a portable storage container from Go Mini’s or anyone else, you are going to want to know how to best take care of your personal belongings. Refer to this blog as often as necessary to find the tips of all kinds. These are tips the pros would use too.
Tip #1 - Prevent “load shift” during transit.
We thought our very first tip should give the kind of advice every do-it-yourself mover should know. When a professional mover loads your items onto a moving truck, one of their primary objectives is to load the truck in a way that will prevent load shift. Movers know when they are driving down the road, they will encounter steep hills, sharp turns, sudden stops, large potholes etc. You as the do-it-yourself mover should know your possessions will encounter the same potential issues when they are in transit.
That’s why you need to think about load shift!
One strategy used by the pros to prevent load shift is one you can easily use too. Large flat items are the answer. Mattresses and other large flat items like plywood are perfect for helping to prevent load shift. DO NOT load mattresses or plywood into your Go Mini portable storage container first. Start by counting how many of these large flat items you have and plan to load them strategically throughout your Go Mini. It’s even more effective if you use straps or rope to tighten the mattress or plywood against the load.
Just in case this is not clear, stand the large flat item up on its end. When you are looking into the Mini, you should be face to face with the wide side of the mattress or plywood you are using to secure your load. Another benefit of this is, after you have secured the flat item with straps or rope, you have another flat wall to start building another tier of boxes and furniture.
If possible, save a flat item for the end of your load. Here’s why. After you have rolled down the door, you do not want to have something shift and then lean against the roll-up door of your portable storage container. It has happened to a few people in the past.
Loading your Go Mini’s portable storage container is easy with its translucent roof and ground level entrance. Be sure to look back for more tips on how the pro’s load furniture and boxes. We’ll make this Professional Moving Tips series a valuable resource to our customer’s.
Tags: do-it-yourself moving, Go Mini's, load shift, moving tips, Portable Moving and Storage, portable storage container, professional moving tips
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
by Jim Carey Go Mini’s NY, NJ, CT
Go Mini’s of NY, NJ, CT announces a new written series titled Professional Moving Tips to help the do-it your self mover to load their own portable storage container.
When moving your home with your own Go Mini’s container, Go Mini’s of NY, NJ and CT wants you to learn the tips of the pros and so we have created a series of moving tips for customers to follow. Go Mini’s of NY, NJ and CT has professional moving tips that will help you, the homeowner, protect your furniture while using as much space in the Mini as possible. Check back soon to our blog page for future announcements on moving tips the pros use. You will be glad you did. We will also have our tips available on twitter and facebook.
Tags: Go Mini's, moving your home, portable storage container, professional moving tips, protect your furniture
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
by Jim Carey - Go Mini’s NY, NJ and CT
Alright. Here are the basics of the home staging contest where one lucky person could win a decluttering solution from Go Mini’s every month.
First, you need to live in the following service area counties in NY, NJ and CT:
1. In New York - Putnam County, Westchester, Dutchess, Rockland, Orange, Ulster
2. In Connecticut - Fairfield, Litchfield
3. In New Jersey - Bergen
Now that we have the first and most important contest rule out of the way, here is what the contest is all about. We are looking to promote the use of Go Mini’s for decluttering a home. Whether its for spring cleaning or preparing to sell a home, we want to help some lucky homeowner once a month. Send us pictures of the interior of your home. Send your pictures to info@rentgominis.com. The home that has the most clutter in it will be awarded the use of a Go Mini portable storage container for 2 months for free. That’s 2 months to do home staging for a home sale, declutter the home or do anything else you want with it. One other important item. If you are home staging for a home sale, you will probably want to have the Mini taken off the property once you have filled it with all the things from inside your home. So, we will even take the Mini off your property and store it at our location for you.
The second rule is that by submitting your pictures to us, you give us permission to use the pictures on our web-site or other media. But, rest assured, your identity will be kept confidential by us.
Third rule - Even thought the Go Mini is free for 2 months. We will require a valid credit card just in case winners wish to keep the Go Mini container longer than 2 months.
Go Mini’s are ideal for home staging, decluttering and general clean up and storage of household items. Visit us on the web at the following Go Mini’s dealer web-sites:
Dutchess and Putnam - http://www.gominis.com/clancystoragellc268/index-Dutchess_and_Putnam-Dutchess_&_Putnam_Portable_Storage_.html
Westchester - http://www.gominis.com/clancystoragellc387/index-Westchester-Portable_Moving_and_Storage_Solutions.html
Fairfield - http://www.gominis.com/clancystoragellc/index-Fairfield-Portable_Moving_and_Storage_Solutions.html
Rockland, Orange and Ulster - http://www.gominis.com/clancystoragellc200/index-Orange_and_Rockland-Portable_Moving_and_Storage_Solutions.html
Bergen - http://www.gominis.com/clancystoragellc200/index-Orange_and_Rockland-Portable_Moving_and_Storage_Solutions.html
Litchfield - http://www.gominis.com/clancystoragellc288/index-Litchfield-Portable_Moving_and_Storage_Solutions.html
For additional contest questions, please e-mail or call us:
info@rentgominis.com
Toll Free (877) 881-5080
Tags: decluttering, Go Mini's, home staging, Portable Storage
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Thursday, December 24th, 2009
Dec 23, 2009
By Tammy Stevens, GO MINI’S Minneapolis, MN
What a fabulous opportunity. Here in our beautiful white winter GO MINI’S MN was able to donate one of our portable storage containers for a great cause. GO MINI’S was loud and proud out front of the Coldwell Banker Burnet Real Estate Agency waiting to accept the donations of toys from all the wonderful people in the community.
We just received a letter from the Branch Vice President Ken Johnson thanking us for our support and to let us know that they received over 750 toys for local children in need at the event held on Saturday, December 5th. “We are so fortunate to have such wonderful support from our community.”
These toys were donated to TOYS FOR TOTS by the agents & friends of Coldwell Banker Burnet’s Minnetonka/Excelsior offices as part of the annual “Trees for Toys” event. GO MINI’s MN Portable Storage was proud to be a part of such a heartfelt charitable cause.
See you next year!!! Happy Holidays
Tags: Go Mini's, Minneapolis, moving & storage, portable self storage, Portable Storage, portable storage rental, portable storage units, St. Paul
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
by Peter Dempsey - December 2009
The heavy wet snowfall that has fallen on Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange and Rockland Counties, NY last night was followed by heavy rainfall. This lead to “ponding” of water in several areas and is causing basement flooding across the entire region. In some instances, there have been some flat roofs with water backing up and coming in through roofs. The result is flood damage and a big mess for home and business owners.
Go Mini’s has dispatched several of its weather proof portable storage units this morning. Restoration companies as well as home and business owners have called looking for immediate delivery. Call volume began to slow down from early this morning when flooding first began to occur. Perhaps Ulster County in the northern area of our service region will start to see flooding. The snow lasted a bit longer there.
We are thankful for the continued business from our restoration companies and wish our new customers from this morning good luck in dealing with these floods. Our Go Mini’s stand 8 inches off the ground so the items they put in the Mini will be safe. But we have cautioned them to keep snow from building up around the Mini just to be sure there are no chances of water rising above the 8 inch ground clearance. Do any Go Mini’s dealers have any stories of flooding after a snow storm? Let us know.
Tags: Dutchess, flat roofs flooding, flood damage, home, Orange, Portable Storage, Putnam, Restoration companies, Rockland, weatherproof storage, Westchester
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
By Tom Grimes - Go Mini’s of NY, CT and NJ - December 8, 2009
We all agree the original portable on demand storage concept came from PODS. Hence their name. They grew into a corporate giant with their first to market advantage and, quite frankly, their great concept for moving and storage. But they are also being outpaced in many markets by smaller, locally operated portable storage container companies. Go Mini’s in the New York metro area (specifically Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange, Rockland, Ulster, Litchfield, Fairfield and Bergen Counties) is one such company doing just that.
Instead of a national call center to handle customer calls, Go Mini’s of NY, CT & NJ handles calls locally. So many of their customers are of the “need it now” type. They can’t get that from PODS. But when they call Go Mini’s, the person on the phone usually knows where the delivery trucks are and can arrange an urgent delivery happen in just a few minutes. Customers love knowing they do not need to spend time on the phone waiting for a special person to arrange an expedited delivery. With Go Mini’s, they know fast response is a common practice. This fast response time is critical to the restoration business, to contractors, to Realtors whose clients move out of a home and have a closing fall through on they one they are supposed to move to. You get the point. It is important to get the customer their Mini quickly. In the counties listed above, there is nobody faster than Go Mini’s. Because Go Mini’s meets the needs of these customers, they become repeat customers.
Tom Grimes is a local representative of Go Mini’s. Tom creates relationships with businesses in different industries who never knew they could have such an easy portable storage system that delivers quickly in support of their operation. If you have a need for portable storage, whether it is for holiday inventory, renovating or restoration projects, de-cluttering or home staging, give Go Mini’s a call.
Tags: Go Mini's NY CT NJ, Go Mini's Westchester Putnam Dutchess Orange Rockland Ulster Fairfield Litchfield Bergen, holiday inventory, PODS, Portable Moving and Storage, Portable on demand storage, Portable Storage, renovating, restoration
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
November 19, 2009
By Tammy Stevens, GO MINI’S - Minneapolis, MN
Last week my husband, Dirk Stevens and I were invited to one of the largest ServiceMasters Restoration Companies that serve the Minneapolis area, celebrating their new warehouse.
ServiceMasters is one of many restoration companies that has been using our GO MINI’S dealership for over 3 years now and I asked them why they used GO MINI’S ? The answer seemed universal amongst all our restoration companies. They said it was simple…we were easy to do business with! They loved working with a locally owned agency. A one-minute phone call with their purchase order, the delivery address, when they needed it and where to place the portable storage container and the transaction was done.
Our clients have more than enough to do when there is a water or fire emergency and know that we understand a sense of urgency. All our restoration companies have our home phone but do not abuse it. Having a vendor’s home phone makes a statement about our commitment.
GO MINI’S has been a fantastic fit for restoration companies.
Tags: Anoka, Blaine, Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Fridley, Go Mini's, Inver Grove Heights, Lino Lakes, Minneapolis, moving & storage, Portable Storage, Ramsey, St. Paul, Woodbury
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Home Staging with Go Mini’s in NY, NJ & CT
By Jim Carey, Go Mini’s of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut
Go Mini’s offers a variety of benefits to homeowners preparing to sell their home. When preparing to sell a home, a small investment in staging will help you sell your home faster AND for more money. Home-staging and decluttering may seem like a daunting task, but Go Mini’s makes the process so much faster and easier. Here is a great article from our associate home stager, Claudia Jacobs, to explain why home staging is so beneficial.
Stage It Before You List It
By Claudia Jacobs
Listing a house before staging it is like going to a business meeting in your bathrobe and slippers. The first five to 10 days a house is on the market is the time when the most foot traffic between buyers, agents and brokers occurs. More people will tour the property in the beginning, so why not stage it before you list it and show the property at its best right from the start.
Sure, staging will help if you wait 30, 60 or 90 days to market the house, but by then it’s no longer a fresh listing. A house for sale draws most of its potential buyers during the first 10 days on the market. Why gamble by not making a great first impression?
Ideally the best time to stage is months before the house goes on the market. A typical staging client is the homeowner who is going to sell in the near future and is willing to do what it takes to prepare the house to sell. This is the listing a Realtor wants because a staged home is ready for its close up from day one.
It is difficult to be objective in one’s own home. A staging consultation gives room-by-room instructions on what needs to be done before putting the house on the market. The staging professional offers suggestions for the de-cluttering process, including storage solutions with an eye toward a future move.
Some Realtors do not want to offend their clients with brutal honesty but a staging professional knows how to handle all those negative situations and touchy subjects with creative ideas that will pay dividends at closing. Staging is also tax deductable to the seller (IRS form 523, Selling Your Home).
For Realtors, including home staging to your presentation is smart marketing and sets that realtor apart as someone who has the best interest of the seller in mind. It also shows knowledge of current marketing strategies, which can help a Realtor get the listing.
Claudia is a long time associate of Go-Mini’s in NY, NJ & CT. She operates Claudia Jacobs Designs in Goshen NY and is an experienced decorator specializing in real estate staging. She can be reached at 845-294-8993 or online at www.claudiajacobsdesign.com .
Home staging makes so much sense for the home seller. Remember that most people view a home in the first 10 days. Call Go Mini’s in New York, New Jersey or Connecticut to bring you one of their portable storage units quickly. You will make the tasks of home staging and decluttering go so much faster and easier.
Tags: Connecticut, CT, declutter, Dutchess, Fairfield, Go Mini’s, home selling tips, home staging tips, How to home stage, Hudson Valley, Litchfield, New Jersey, New York, NJ, NY, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Ulster, Westchester
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Saturday, November 7th, 2009
 Gordie Naughton loves adventure. When not cross country skiing he enjoys long distance bicycle adventures all over the world. His most recent foreign ride was through Thailand.
On Monday, September 28, Gordie and 26 other riders and crew set out to cross the entire state of Nevada following mountainous US Route 50, a distance of 420 miles, in just five days. Route 50 is affectionately billed as America’s Loneliest Road. To a cyclist, that probably does not seem a daunting five-day distance until you consider that the ride took place in America’s most mountainous state in the lower forty-eight.
The twenty seven riders started from South Lake Tahoe and headed through Carson City to Fallon. This 93 mile leg consisted of a seven mile hill climb ending in a twelve mile decent in heavy four-lane traffic. One of the cyclists clocked 52 mph and even passed a semi on the down hill ride. Gordie clocked a modest 39 mph; that’s flying on two wheels in our book. The day one destination of Fallon is the home to the Navy’s “Top Gun” training school.
The troop started early on Tuesday facing a 113 mile ride through a little town called Cold Springs nestled between the Desatoya and Clan Alpine Mountains. The ride consisted of challenging climbs through mountain passes and over New Pass Summit that ended in Austin, a little town that struggled to find beds for 27 riders and crew.
Wednesday morning greeted them with a 22 degree temperature that would reach only a high of 40. The third day leg of 69 miles took the party across Hickison Summit and by Summit Mountain to end in Eureka which lies in the shadow of Prospect Summit.
The 77-mile ride to complete the tour was an adventure for the road weary riders taking them through elevations of 6,521 across Pancake Summit, 7,438 Little Antelope Summit and 7,588 Robison Summit to the final destination, Ely, Nevada in the Egan Mountain Range.
Climbing 17,830 feet, screaming down curving mountainous downhill runs in cross winds and fighting the effects of freezing temperatures proved an adventurous accomplishment for “America’s Loneliest Bike Tour,” a bonding experience they will always remember.
We at Go Mini’s are proud of Gordie Naughton and his accomplishments.
Tags: Erie PA Go Minis, Erie PA Moving and Storage
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