A Moving Experience; Best Move Management Provides an Assist to Assisted Living Facilities.

Business Editors

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 10, 2004

Nobody likes to move. When moving means relocating a parent or loved one into an assisted living facility, this ordinarily exhausting experience becomes emotionally draining as well. Hiring a move management company can make that parent or loved one's transition from their old home to the assisted living facility a smooth one.

"When moving a loved one into an assisted living facility, often times the family's first reaction is to pack everything up, put it into storage, and deal with it later," said Oz Rabinovitz, president of Best Move Management, Inc. of Boston, Massachusetts. "We take a more proactive approach. By settling the home and possessions as soon as possible, it not only saves on unnecessary storage expenses but puts the elder family member at ease knowing that their home and belongings have been taken care of."

While Best Move Management serves both commercial and residential clients, its services are specifically tailored to assisted living moves. Those services include:

-- Planning

-- Move estimating, offering several price options at locked-in,

guaranteed rates

-- Packing and moving

-- Estate closeouts

-- Storage solutions

-- Unpacking and settling in services

-- Furniture and valuables sale and/or donations

-- Cleaning and furniture refinishing 

Since Best Move Management represents the client not the moving company, there's a lot more contact with the elderly person being moved, the family, and the assisted living facility staff than what you would ordinarily have with a traditional moving company.

"Hiring a moving coordinator for an assisted living move works well on many levels," continued Rabinovitz. "There's the convenience factor for family members who don't live in the area, in addition to arbitrating possible disputes over what to do with their relative's possessions. From a cost standpoint, we can, in many cases, recoup some or all of the moving costs by selling items to consignment stores."

Since payment for Best Move Management's services comes out of the moving company's fee (which Best Move Management hires), the customers don't pay more for this personal approach. And that personal touch doesn't go unnoticed by the client, families, and assisted living facility's staff.

"In the past three years, Best Move Management has moved more than 100 of our residents, a good number of those from out of state," said Aline Russotto, director of member relations for Orchard House assisted living facility in Canton, Massachusetts. "Oz and his crew go above and beyond the call of duty and are a tremendous source of emotional support for residents and the families during what can be a very difficult time. You don't see that type of patient, personal touch with larger moving companies."

Based in the Readville section of Boston, Best Move Management, Inc. provides moving coordination services nationwide. For more information about Best Move Management and its range of services, please visit www.bestmovers.com or call [phone].