[pinkpiggy]

We are thinking of putting our house on the market in the next fortnight.
At the moment we have only had our EOI selected but have not received our ITA yet. We are hoping this will arrive in the next couple of weeks as the 3 months will be up.

We are quite happy to move into rented accommodation, if we sell quickly but our question is this - has anyone been in the position where they have moved into rented and had to put their furniture into storage before shipping to NZ?

For example, can we put things into a container to be stored prior to shipping and then shipped when we give the go ahead or do we need to think about self storage for a while and then advise a shipping agent at a later stage?

[willsken]

Only problem I can see with the self storage is that the shipping company do the packing. If not they won't insure your stuff. So if you pack it then they will have to unpack it and repack before it can go into your container.

Don't know if this will cause any hassle, just thinking!! Ouch!! :roll

[Moorf]

Hi - that's exactly what we did. We sold our house in Scotland and moved to our flat in Sussex - but 4 beds into 1 bed doesn't go, and we didn't have our PR, so we had to put it all in storage and we came to NZ with just clothes and computers.

It happened like this:

a) Our packers in Scotland packed up the house and shipped to storage area in Sussex.
b) We paid c. £90/mth for storage whilst we were in NZ getting our jobs and PR etc.
c) Almost a year later we had another shipper repack and ship to NZ - my mother supervised - basic inventories were done for MAF.
d) We shared a container over as we sold all our big items/furniture etc.
e) Stuff arrived here in great condition (thanks GB Liners/NZ Vanlines) with no MAF inspection or fees either!

I personally would check how stuff stores in containers - at least the storage building was a) secure b) watertight and dry c) patrolled. We paid for 6mths in advance and emailed our extension requests with no problems plus my mother was their UK contact.

Hope that helps a little - it was a very easy process for us.

Cheers
Moorf

[Debbie]

Just a thought, if you can arrange your own storage, (one of these self sore units) rather than using your shippers storage I would. We used self store in the UK when we decluttered and it was a lot cheaper than what we have been offered for storage by our shippers either in the UK or NZ
Debbie

[Moorf]

Yes, we used a seperate storage place - lots of them springing up everywhere. We used Big Box Storage - http://www.big-box.co.uk/