Grand Rapids businesswoman Shirley Hubers says the idea for
Welcome Home executive relocation services "just came to me" one day, just three months after retiring from Hubers & Associates, a marketing and communications firm she owned for 25 years.
Welcome Home offers a comprehensive list of relocation services, from cleaning the new home before the move, unpacking all boxes, and putting everything away, to making the beds and waiting for the cable company.
"Welcome Home offers a new service not offered anywhere," Hubers says. "It's for new executive hires that have to move to the community from an outlying area, like Boston, for instance. All they have to do is unlock the door and they are home. It is live-in ready."
Hubers says the service is a perk that corporations, executive search firms, and real estate companies offer potential newcomers to clinch the decision to relocate their entire family and the household that comes with it.
In addition to overseeing the move, Welcome Home provides neighborhood maps that help newcomers find grocery stores, worship centers, salons and barbershops, pharmacies, doctors, dentists, parks, schools, and other services new families need. They will also pair the accompanying spouse or significant other with a member of the community who has similar interests.
And yes, Welcome Home even does windows.
"We clean the residence from top to bottom, including the basement and garage. We wash windows inside and out, we mow the lawn or shovel the snow, and even supervise home repairs identified by the new owners or the realtor," Hubers says. "We make sure the washer and dryer are connected, and we stock groceries for the first breakfast and dinner."
Hubers says that besides handling the move in, Welcome Home will handle the move out for an additional cost. The service could include hiring a mover and cleaning the house after it's empty.
Source: Shirley Hubers, Welcome Home
Writer: Deborah Johnson Wood, Development News Editor
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