- I’m moving to north Austin near the Arboretum soon. I’m very familiar with the location since it was my route area for 3 years when I worked at Fedex. I took some pictures of the new apartment and I will post them soon enough when I get a chance. It is suprisingly difficult to find one bedroom apartments with washer / dryer connections that are affordable enough, but I think I did really well tracking one down.
- I generally don’t use locators because they make higher referral fees for promoting less desirable apartments. What I did do this time was sit down with a sheet of paper and the telephone, open up Google maps to my city, and then click “local search”. You need to click “local search” from Google maps rather than using Google Local. Just drag the map around with your cursor until you find the areas you are interested in living in. When you find a desired area, just type in “apartments”, then clear the “where” input field and hit the “Search” button. This will search for “apartments” in the area you have shown on the screen. Then you just use the map flags to get the phone number and address and call the complex to ask about their prices. Here’s a screenshot.
- You can change your address online. I have done this before, but it may be news to you.
- Something else I learned, Uhaul charges different rates for different types of the same vehicle. For example, if you’re moving in town, be sure to ask for the in-town only vehicle, which amounts to a $10 price difference in most cases. They charge a rate of $19.99 for the 14ft truck in town for a 24 hour period plus mileage. It is helpful to know that the mileage rate is $.59 per mile Sunday – Thursday, and $.89 per mile Friday – Saturday, so if you need the truck to move on a Friday try to make your reservation for Thursday evening so you lock in the $.59 per mile rate instead of the $.89 per mile rate.
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Hey, you’re moving into my neighborhood! You should come over to my place with Jodie sometime.