That should have read Border Protection - but thanks for pointing that out.

Anyhoo, in LenandBren's case they both lived in Canada - so my understanding was that Bren, as a returning resident, (assuming his time in Canada equaled at least a year) could bring his personal goods back with him without incurring duty. My understanding was he would only have to claim new goods under the guidelines for exemptions you have given?

However what you are saying is that he would have had to have owned them in the U.S. first - I wasn't aware of that.

This is what I found:

Moving to U.S. - Returning Resident Exemptions & how to clear your goods

You may import furniture, dishes, linens, libraries, artwork and similar household furnishings for your personal use free of duty. To be eligible for duty-free exemption, the articles must have either been available for your use, or used in a household where you were a resident for one year. The year of use does not need to be continuous, nor does it need to be the year immediately before the date of importation. link

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So since we are now thinking Florida instead of Nebraska I did a new U-pack quote.

Relocube:

Depot to Depot $1914.00
Door to Door $2214

So now our $800 and some dollar move to Nebraska has become an investment in U-pack

Get some quotes from the big movers. It's about the same cost, but they do all the work.

You know that's a good idea krikit! I hadn't really thought much about them and I was going to hire someone to do the loading and unloading anyway!

Someone was discussing moving companies and quotes, not sure if it was this thread *wanders off to look - not like krikit wanders off*

Well I just got a quote from a woman from United Van Lines:

2100 lbs Minimum to Florida

$ 8-9 thousand

She also mentioned another line - I had actually contacted Highland Moving online - I think she said they have a minimum of 5000 lbs.

So I guess it's U-Pack!

I think I paid $2,800 with United. Same minimum, I believe.

She was babbling something about new tariffs for all the moving companies because of something to do with it not being regulated anymore or something - it wasn't very clear what she was saying and since it was so high it didn't seem worth listening to.

However, I will try to call a couple of others to see if I can find a better price.

So I just had a call from a woman with Williams moving - she said for a shipment around the size you would expect for a 1 bdrm apartment (minimum with them is 2100 lbs) it would be around $2500 - I said that sounded pretty good compared to the other phone quote I had received.

She then said that the tariffs had recently changed so she should really look it up and she would email me if the quote was actually going to be much higher:

I had a chance to get into the US system and do a rough quote for you. Based on the minimum of 2100 lbs the estimated charges came to $3514.34 usd.

I guess the new tariff has changed things more than I thought. I apologize for misleading you with a lower estimate.

Please let me know if you need anything further.

Relocation Specialist
Williams Moving & Storage
www.williamsmoving.com

WHAT THE FK??????????????????
trailmix, that's a sh1tload of money. Why not do the UPack??? It's as fun as doing the mambo, I tell you [color="#FF00FF"][/color]

The MAMBO!! woot woot!!

Yeah, we are going to go with upack, just thought we should get a few estimates to see what the difference is - upack is $2200, plus we will hire someone to pack it.

hell yeah sister. Just be careful with the packers/loaders, remember mine made a mess and when we unpacked some of our antiques were fked up.

Will do

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