Fictions About Moving Your Household Goods to Mexico
In the course of investigating the Move to Mexico industry, we heard lots of statements, many of which were either false, or not entirely true. Here are the top fictions:
#1. It is intimidating and difficult.
Fiction:
"To move your household goods to Mexico, you have to pay a fortune and deal with a confusing, intimidating process,
a lot of it in Spanish. You have no control and you have to do what the moving company tells you… or else!"
Fact:
In the past, this fiction was generally true. You either had to do your move yourself by driving yourself
and just the belongings you could fit into your own vehicle across the border and back again,
dealing with car permits, dealing with customs officials to clear your own goods at the border, etc.,
or you would have to work with an existing international mover who wasn't bashful about charging quite a lot
while forcing you into a "one size fits all" move.
(We talked with one man who, in order to get around this situation, made five trips back and forth
from Mexico to Arkansas to retrieve his family’s belongings. Five!)
However, now that Best Mexico Movers has re-invented moving to and from Mexico, your move can be much less expensive, not confusing, and rather than feeling helpless, you will feel optimistic and empowered.
#2. It's cheaper to just buy new stuff in Mexico.
Fiction:
"It doesn’t pay to move your stuff. Just sell everything for pennies on the dollar or give it away and
show up in Mexico with four suitcases. With the money you save, you can replace everything you lost 'back home'
after you move here."
Fact:
Again, before Best Mexico Movers, part of this used to be true - the high cost of moving your items to Mexico.
However, the second part of it – being able to buy what you want in Mexico, for many people, isn't true at all.
First off, do you really want to give up virtually everything you spent a lifetime accumulating,
especially if you are in or near retirement age?
Is that how you want to start your new life in Mexico, with close to nothing of your own?
Also, when they are being fully candid, quite a few people will tell you that some of the things you may have sold or given away are not available in Mexico at any reasonable price; for example, comfortable furniture and mattresses. How would that make you feel about your new life in Mexico? You just sold or gave away your great mattress and now you have to sleep on one that's hard as a rock, or you just don’t like the couch in your new home. To paraphrase a character from Seinfeld: "No more comfortable couches for you!"
Of course, just how important any of this is to you is a personal matter. The overall point is, with the Best Mexico Movers Process, you may not have to give up what your heart tells you that you don’t want to. And for those of you who want to keep more of your personal possessions, here is more good news: with the Best Mexico Movers Process, moves with a greater amount of your personal belongings do not cost proportionately more. That means you can keep lots more of your familiar, comfortable furniture and other items, luxuriate with them in Mexico, and it won’t cost you that much to bring it. Enjoy!
#3. Your items have to be re-loaded and combined with others.
Fiction:
"In order to move to Mexico, you have to endure having your precious household goods unloaded at a several
different warehouses in the US, then consolidated at several different warehouses with other customers stuff
(meaning: your household goods share the same trailer with several other people’s), re-loaded onto another truck,
cross the border, and then unload and re-load again generally five or more times (half or more in Mexico)
before arriving at your final destination."
Fact:
Here’s another one that is true with other international movers, but not with Best Mexico Movers.
When you move with us, we don't move your items into and out of warehouses or combine with other people's goods
in two or more countries. Instead, we do Zero Consolidation / One Transload moves, in which, at our customs broker's
facilities, we effectively back up the trailer that picked up your items in the US or Canada to the one that will
bring your household goods to Mexico, and very carefully move your precious belongings from one trailer to the other, just one time.
Your household items are not stored in a warehouse and they are not combined with any others; they barely touch the ground.
Of course, nothing good happens when your household possessions are taken off one truck and put into a warehouse or into a different trailer, multiple times. That’s why we don’t do it.
The process can be slightly different when we import through San Diego. Ask us about it.
#4. The truck has to cross the border at Laredo.
Fiction:
"There is only one place to cross by truck to import used household goods from the US into Mexico — Laredo TX."
Fact:
For the vast majority of cases, this is exactly how household goods have been shipped to Mexico —
everything must go through Laredo. This is another example of how the old way of doing things was more
for the convenience of the moving company than the convenience and cost efficiency of the customer.
Best Mexico Movers changes that. We can import through Laredo just like the others, but we can also import at El Paso and San Diego, which may be closer to you and a much less costly option for you. For example, if you live in Arizona, importing your household goods through Laredo rather than El Paso adds another 600 miles that your household goods have to travel in the US. Guess who pays for that?
