-moving into a new home/move-in-

After landing, I dragged a large bag and a small bag to prepare to move into the new nest. Don't worry, there are some differences between moving in the United States and China. Before moving-in, you must read these points.

1. Reserve the elevator

If you have furniture to move in, you need to make an appointment with the apartment building for a moving elevator (also required when moving out of the apartment). The moving elevator in the apartment is larger than the general passenger elevator, so you must confirm with the building that no one else is using the freight elevator during the time when you want to move. If several people move at the same time, it will be very embarrassing. After all, the number of freight elevators is limited. It's important to note that many apartments have a specific allowed time frame for moving, such as no moving after 11pm and no moving on weekends. Always remember to confirm all moving appointment details with the apartment ahead of time.

2. Partition

If there are people living in the living room of your apartment, then most of the classmates will ask to cut off the company and make "a wall" to separate the living room and the roommates' private living room. The area and the common area shared by everyone are equivalent to a small room. When the partition master comes to play the wall for you, the materials are not small, so you also need to use a special elevator for moving, you need to make an appointment in advance, but some buildings can only use the partition company that the building cooperates with. Please confirm with your agent what kind of partition it is! Now it's fully booked for August and September! The sooner you book the better!

3. Get the key

The building will generally send an email to the tenants to confirm the key collection time, especially for tenants who come to New York at night, please communicate with the building in advance to determine the key collection time ! Generally, the leasing office or management office will prepare your keys, key cards, etc. and put them at the front desk. When you arrive, show your ID. When picking up the keys, the front desk of some buildings will take a photo of you, and then there is something to confirm that you are a resident.

4. Buy furniture in advance

Many domestic students will think that after buying some things online in advance, they will have furniture and daily necessities that can be used directly when they arrive. However, many buildings in the United States do not sign and receive large packages for residents, especially those delivered by special personnel such as ikea, which generally require tipping. Therefore, in many cases, large packages (especially furniture) need to be signed by the residents themselves. Even if the building is willing to help residents to sign and receive large furniture packages, such as: beds, mattresses, cabinets, etc.…… often they can only be stored in the package management room for a short time, and if no one picks them up for two days, they may send you an email, or they may went back directly. So remember to ask in advance if the building can store packages and how long will they be stored?

Check in date is approaching‼ ️Please note the following

Email the property to make an appointment for key collection em>

If you don't arrive at the building during working hours from Monday to Friday, you must just tell the property in advance how to get the keys!

* There have been cases in the past where the keys could not be retrieved late at night.

Make an appointment with the property as soon as possible to move the elevator, the elevator is very busy during the school season

* There have been cases where the elevator could not be booked and the tenant's furniture could not be moved in.

If you want to send things to the building in advance, you need to confirm with the property

*In the past, furniture has been found sent to the building and returned.

-Set up electricity/network account-

Seeing this, you should be looking forward to your new home! Intimate “Keeping a nanny“ also prepares electricity/network account opening strategies for you (the building will include water), so you don’t have to worry about the first month’s bill.

1. Set the electricity bill

There are two situations for setting the electricity bill:

In the first case, the building will bill directly to the tenant's account. The tenant account is the account where you pay the rent. When you log in, you should see that the Utility Bill and the Rent Bill are separate. This is to be handed over to the building, and the building will pay for it. You don’t need to open an additional account.

In the second case, the tenant needs to set up their own ConEdison account:

Open con edison official website register.

Select Start new service:

Next select I’m a new customer:

Finally, fill in your address according to the instructions, move in date has your identity information, such as ssn. If there is no ssn, you must submit a certain deposit.

2. Set internet charges

There are many service providers in New York, such as Verizon, RCN, etc. Go to the service provider's official website to place an order for a router, and then select the corresponding network plan. Generally, a plan of 50-70 dollars a month is enough!

3. Buy home insurance

There are some buildings that need to purchase Renter Insurance. Tenants can confirm with their agent whether they need to purchase it. The price is around $100 a year.

Example Lemonade:

-buy a mattress-

It goes without saying that mattresses are definitely the most important furniture for international students. Many students even only buy mattresses and do not need bed frames.

Before buying, you must know the size of your room and the necessary nouns.

The size of the room: the tape measure, the measuring APP in the mobile phone, and the floor plan on the rental contract can be used to measure, and then cooperate with us to prepare carefully The standard size chart of American and Canadian mattresses, you can plan how big the bed you want to buy.

Must-know nouns in English and Chinese:

Bedding | Beds and Bedding

A broad term describing mattresses, sheets, and other items that make up a complete bed. In addition to generally including sheets (Sheet), quilt (Quilt), duvet (Duvet), mattress cover (Mattress Protector).

Mattress | Mattress

The part where you sleep directly, study abroad, start with a mattress, and you can sleep soundly. Many people have always thought that Simmons is a mattress, with springs on the inside and strong cloth on the outside. In fact, Simmons is the surname of the founder of Simmons Mattress Company, which later became the brand name. Because it is so famous, mattresses are called "Simmons" in China.

Bed in a box | Mattress in a Box li>

A mattress compression and distribution method invented in 2007 by an engineer from Johnson City, Tennessee. The advent of Bed in a Box made it possible to sell mattresses on the internet—foam mattresses compressed and curled to a size small enough to fit online shopping.

Box Spring | Box Spring / Bed Base / Pedestal li>

A unit containing a spring or metal rod that supports a mattress.

Consumer Reports' opinion on this is that if you have a base, you don't have to replace the mattress when you replace it, if the original still works Just use it directly and save hundreds of dollars. However, some brands of mattresses require that their bases must be used, otherwise the warranty may not be covered.

Foundation | Bed base

Refer to the previous Box Spring.

Bed Frame | Bed Frame

A metal frame that holds the base and mattress in place and connects to the headboard and footboard. A typical bed frame has the classic metal skeleton style, platform slat style. Metal skeletons are popular due to their ease of installation and the fact that they can free up a lot of space under the bed.

In recent years, there are also popular bed frames with upholstered and integrated Box Spring function. Of course, the most fancy is the adjustable bed frame——can Directly concave the mattress into a big wave to meet your needs for watching dramas, studying, eating, etc. in bed. Of course, using an adjustable bed frame is premised on your mattress manufacturer's explicit support for such a bed frame.

Headboard | Headboard

A panel at the head of the bed.

Hybrid Mattress | Hybrid Mattress

A mattress that combines a latex mattress and an innerspring support system to provide sleepers with the benefits of innerspring and foam mattresses.

Pillow Top | Pillow Top

A mattress design with an extra layer of comfort padding on the mattress surface. The top of the pillow provides a softer feel.

Plush Top | Plush Top

A mattress design similar to a pillow top, but the extra layers of padding are less noticeable because they are built into the surface rather than layered on top.

Prorated/Unprorated Warranty

High-frequency words for mattress warranty terms, most brand mattresses have a warranty ranging from 10-25 years, but may only cover factory defects, such as sagging, springs broken and so on. In addition, it is also necessary to see whether the warranty is prorated or unprorated. Prorated generally refers to the longer the use time, the smaller the scope of the warranty package.

-Mattress Recommended Buying Site-

us-mattress.com

Beautyrest is a better product line from the Simmons company mentioned above, and it is comparable to the price of Ashley Sierra Sleep's boxed mattresses at USMattress. Cheap and cost-effective. Beautysleep 8 Inch Bed in A Box Lux Firm Mattress, the hardness level is on the hard side on the website (you know it is suitable for Chinese people), $299 can buy Queen, $219 can buy Twin XL, the entry model is just it!

The Sealy and Tempur-Pedic are a bit more expensive due to better detailing and cooling and support. Among them, Sealy is one of the three classic mattress brands in the United States. It was founded in 1881 and launched the first "Posturepedic Beauty" brand product in 1950, becoming the only mattress brand in the industry that focused on correct back support. Tempur-Pedic, on the other hand, ushered in a new era of memory foam mattresses, utilizing a foam material developed by NASA that adjusts itself to the shape, weight and temperature of the human body, while distributing the maximum amount of pressure for support.

For short-term use, the editor recommends Beautyrest and Ashley Sierra Sleep. Of course, don't forget to try it yourself in the store. OK

MattressFirm

Every year on Labor Day MattressFirm offers discounts on all mattresses, and there will even be a free adjustable height base for orders over 499. This year, you can also squat Squatting at their home, basically after the discount, you can buy a Queen size mattress at the price of a Twin size mattress, and buy a King's mattress with a Queen's budget.

Mattress Firm also has 3 great benefits:

There are many stores in New York, you can go to the store to lie down and try to sleep;

Provide value-added services for throwing away old mattresses when delivered to your door;

They can also buy a lot of bed frames and bed bases, including The most basic metal rack.

Amazon (Zinus)

Zinus is Amazon's own furniture brand and offers great discounts on Prime Day every year. Zinus is better known as the Green Tea memory mattress, but it is still a bit soft for many Asians. This gel-infused memory foam, composed of 5 different foams, contains a latex layer and an icoil patented spring foam layer, which is more supportive and fits the body when sleeping on it, but does not sag deeply.

The introduction height of the mattress is 12 inch, and it is 11 inch after opening the rebound, so it is best not to buy too thin, so as not to reach the ideal height. This mattress is a slightly harder spring ➕ memory foam hybrid, which is very suitable for Asian sleeping habits.

Influencer brands such as Casper

These days, if you don't innovate and don't use Internet thinking, you won't sell anything, and if you don't open an offline experience store to engage in new retail, you're embarrassed to say that you are a start-up company. The same is true for selling mattresses. The first is Casper.

Their family has been very strong in the past few years. Advertisements once flew all over the New York subway, and brick-and-mortar stores were opened all over Manhattan. Let the author go for a walk. It can be popular for so many years, presumably the product power is also possible. If I hadn’t bought Beautyrest first, I might have become a Casper user soon after.

If there is a disadvantage, it is the side effect of the influencer effect——expensive.

Even for the most basic pure foam mattress, the starting price is relatively high, and the Twin Size starts at nearly $400, and the matching bed frame/base also costs less. There are pillows and mattress covers are expensive.

Similar internet celebrity mattress brands include Purple Mattress, Bear Mattress and more. There are usually super-strong discounts on Labor Day. Those who want to experience the feeling of falling asleep like clouds and do not want to bleed must remember to pay attention.

Finally, I wish everyone a smooth move-in~