Free Tools for Relocating or Moving to a New City
A moving cost estimator, a relocation checklist that counts down to move day, and a cost-of-living comparison — the planning side of a move, before the boxes show up.
Moving involves a lot of moving pieces (no pun intended) that are easy to underestimate until you're in the middle of them. Three tools cover the planning side.
What will it actually cost?
The Moving Cost Estimator gives a planning-stage estimate based on home size, distance, and whether you're using a full packing service — useful for budgeting before you start collecting real quotes from movers.
What needs to happen, and when
The Relocation Checklist & Timeline works backward from your move date — lease notice, utility transfers, address changes, school enrollment — sorted by how many weeks out each task actually needs to happen.
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Will your money go further or not
Rather than relying on a generic cost-of-living index (which goes stale fast and varies a lot by neighborhood), our Cost of Living Comparison has you enter your actual current expenses and your best estimate for the new city, then calculates the difference and the salary you'd need to maintain the same standard of living.
Real estate agents: the Cost of Living Comparison and Moving Cost Estimator are both genuinely useful to share with clients relocating from out of state.