At Seniors Moving Smarter, our extensive experience with move management can help ease the transition to your new home. We are a team of licensed and insured professionals who handle the tasks of sorting, packing and moving for you. Our goal is to make this a worry-free experience for you and your loved ones.
We understand that relocating can be overwhelming, especially for someone who has lived in their home for a long period of time or who has to make a sudden change. We treat every client with dignity, respect and we handle your project in a private and confidential way. These are big days, and can often be a source of great stress.
As the first Senior Move Managers in West Michigan, Seniors Moving Smarter has the "know how" to get the job done, but more importantly we help our clients feel comfortable along the way. Delivered by a team that is literally a family, and led by someone who is passionate about helping people. When you've collected a lifetime of valuables, whose hands will you put them in?
We understand that relocating can be overwhelming, especially for someone who has lived in their home for a long period of time or who has to make a sudden change. We treat every client with dignity, respect and we handle your project in a private and confidential way. These are big days, and can often be a source of great stress.
As the first Senior Move Managers in West Michigan, Seniors Moving Smarter has the "know how" to get the job done, but more importantly we help our clients feel comfortable along the way. Delivered by a team that is literally a family, and led by someone who is passionate about helping people. When you've collected a lifetime of valuables, whose hands will you put them in?
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We treat every client with dignity, respect and we handle your project in a private and confidential way. These are big days, and can often be a source of great stress. As the first Senior Move Specialists in West Michigan, Seniors Moving Smarter has the "know how" to get the job done, but more importantly we help our clients feel comfortable along the way.
When we own too many things, they may end up owning us. Downsizing your clutter increases your happiness, and rearranging a space can reshape your outlook. Let Simply Moving Smarter help you choose the items you truly love and figure out the perfect spot for them in your new place. For everything else, we will make arrangements such as shipping to a loved one, entering in an auction or donating to a charity.
We will clean, declutter and prep your home so that it is ready for the real estate market while making sure you are comfortable throughout the process. We also can assist with referrals and overseeing of contractors for needed repairs or updates. We prepare your home with partial or full interior home staging to make your home memorable, helping to sell your home faster and perhaps get a better price.
These are the things that can turn a move into a herculean task. Simply Moving Smarter makes it simple. You choose the things you're going to move, and we'll box them up. We've done this so many times that we have an efficient process that is as fast as it is safe. On moving day, the rubber hits the road.
Ahh, the finishing touches. They are what makes a home feel like a home. But while it can take a single day to move, it often takes months to unpack. Imagine coming home at the end of day one to find that the boxes and packing peanuts have been replaced by organized cabinets, walls full of pictures, and a TV that's ready to be turned to your favorite show.
Reviews (13)
Deb Finkbeiner
Jan 23, 2022
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While the people doing the packing,moving and unpacking did a great job. We did not get an estimate of cost until 2 days before when it was too late to back out, and then when we got the bill it was a whole lot more than what was quoted to us. It might have been nice to know how expensive this service was.
Disabled Senior
Sep 14, 2021
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Don’t do it .My mom is disabled and hired help to organize. The hourly rate plus round trip travel cost $300 for 2 in one car. and paid $1100 cash discount for 4 hours. She sent me video she took after they left when looking for missing items. She found her mail in trash, picture frame w/ glass broken and nothing sorted or tagged. She borrowed money to pay cash.
Clara Simpson
Aug 15, 2021
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Matt, Larry & Nick went above and beyond getting my parents moved into American House. They were able to move them in one day's notice, arrived at the house on time, packed up quickly and gently, and moved their belongings with kindness and care. Their customer service skills were great and fun, their moving skills were excellent, their work ethics very high, and compassion was amazing.
Janet Schnyders
Jun 27, 2021
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Seniors Moving Smarter takes the stress out of the moving process! From the first meeting with Liz the owner of SMS and Carl from White Mitten Movers we felt confident that our home and it's contents were being coordinated not only efficiently but also with great attention to detail. Julie called and explained the process clearly and then worked with the crew tirelessly to organize, pack and unpack. We could not be happier with how smoothly the move went. We highly recommend both companies! Thanks so much!
Nicola Tomkins
Apr 30, 2021
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I was fortunate to get the team at short notice. They were absolutely amazing! We went from chaos with boxes everywhere to a neat and tidy home in just a few hours. Then they sent another team to remove a mountain of packing materials. We will be having them back to hang pictures just as soon as we decide where we want them hung. My kitchen has never been so organized. As you can see I was very impressed and my husband and I would not hesitate to use them again.
Laurel Horman
Nov 11, 2020
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My family has used Seniors moving Smarter 2 times in the last five years, one time to move my mom across to Grand Rapids from Detroit and more recently to move from a larger apartment to an assisted living apartment. Both were seamless, Seniors Smarter, Liz, Julie and the staff, anticipated our needs and helped make these difficult and emotional moves so much better. They were very sensitive to my mom’s need to maintain the style of her previous apartment and helped with the process of downsizing in a sensitive manner. They managed to do all of this in a short time frame and during the constraints
Julie Carlson
Sep 25, 2020
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The crew did an awesome job in moving our mother into assisted living. The move seemed to go quickly – they had everything set up just where we needed it. And they also had the forethought to make sure Mom’s bed frame was reversed so that the under storage drawers were facing the right way. Thanks so much – we’re grateful for SMS!
~~ Julie Carlson
~~ Julie Carlson
Jan F.
Sep 18, 2020
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I couldn't be happier. We moved from a home into a condo and had a lot of "stuff." They worked hard and carefully. Even at the end of the second day the crew was upbeat and had pep in their step. They did whatever we asked and even asked if there was anything more they could do for us. Brenda unpacked the kitchen boxes and put everything away for me. That was wonderful! I would HIGHLY recommend SMS for anyone who wants a quality move that is as stress free as a move can be.
Christine Johnson
Sep 05, 2020
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From our first interaction, Liz was insightful and helpful. As I prepared my 76 year-old mother to relocate from her home of 45 years to a local assisted living facility, Liz asked thoughtful questions and helped me work through logistics. On the day of the move, the staff arrived on time, were courteous and respectful. At one point, mom was having a moment, and one of the moving staff found me and said, “I think your mom needs you.” Mom had a lot of precious, delicate items and the staff was terrific - taking time to pad and wrap. When unloading at the assisted living facility, the staff was
Thomas Hanley
Jun 10, 2020
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Seniors Moving Smarter compassionately took much of the guesswork and heavy lifting out of facilitating an-out-of-state move in the midst of a pandemic. First, Liz helped us assess what we needed to do to downsize 40 years of accumulated stuff and memories, to better stage our home for sale. Her team professionally packed and boxed our belongings on a very tight time frame before the house went on the market. MarJo stayed overtime to ensure that everything was ready. Then after our sale over the first weekend, Julie came back twice to prepare for the move.We learned how to separate what we "loved
Frankie Cook
Jun 02, 2020
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Bruce H.
Jul 10, 2018
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7/10/2018
Bruce & Ann Haight
A-201
Covenant Village of the Great Lakes
Evaluation of the services of Seniors Moving Smarter
At the end of January, we decided to move to Covenant Village of the Great Lakes in Grand Rapids from our home of 43 years in Kalamazoo. We were given names of two firms, met representatives of both, and liked both. We chose Carl Reid and Seniors Moving Smarter because we felt that their approach of subcontracting was more suited to our situation.
The first major contribution Seniors Moving Smarter made was a new way of scheduling our transition. Carl, who is also
Bruce & Ann Haight
A-201
Covenant Village of the Great Lakes
Evaluation of the services of Seniors Moving Smarter
At the end of January, we decided to move to Covenant Village of the Great Lakes in Grand Rapids from our home of 43 years in Kalamazoo. We were given names of two firms, met representatives of both, and liked both. We chose Carl Reid and Seniors Moving Smarter because we felt that their approach of subcontracting was more suited to our situation.
The first major contribution Seniors Moving Smarter made was a new way of scheduling our transition. Carl, who is also
Dave B.
Dec 07, 2015
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Liz is great to work with: guiding you through the process to help a parent get from home to the next stage of living. Don't overlook the value of a dispassionate third party helping to choose what to take from a large home to the new smaller residence (and standing as a buffer between children and parent...) The movers were sensitive to finding things squirreled away in furniture, handling the precious few things being moved, and even had a specialist in Grandfather clocks! I never knew this existed and am very glad Porter Hills clued me into this new business model. Definitely worth
