Guides and resources

How to verify a commercial mover

What you can check in a public federal database, what the household goods rules do not give you, and what you therefore have to put in the contract yourself.

Commercial moving costs: office move price ranges

Published ranges by office size, distance and service, with a clear note on how reliable those ranges are and which variables actually move the number.

How to choose a commercial mover

The questions that separate a genuine commercial relocation contractor from a residential mover taking commercial work, and the ones specific to specialist equipment.

Data center decommissioning checklist and process

Which sanitization method fits the drive, what to put in writing before anything is unracked, and the recycler certification worth checking on resale.

Commercial moving industry data (NAICS 484210)

Six years of the federal government's own employment and wage count for household and office movers, and the two trends in it worth knowing before assuming this is a growing industry.

Corrigan, Armstrong, NorthStar & OMA

Four names businesses search while comparing commercial movers, and what each one actually says about itself before you call.

Laboratory equipment movers: verification by category

Verification looks different for each category: a logger printout for cold-sensitive lab instruments, a live network check for IT gear, a floor-rating check along the full route for machinery.

In-house move vs. hiring a specialist mover

The cost, staff time, equipment and liability tradeoffs of moving with your own team versus hiring a specialist, and the federal rule only an in-house move can trigger.

Office move cost estimator

Pick your office size to see the published cost range, then check off which real cost drivers apply to your move.