Our Services
The primary service offered by Custom Movers Select is household goods moving from across the entire United States, as well as to any point on the globe. We also provide automobile moving, pet transfers, temporary housing, storage, settling-in, real estate, mortgage and household insurance. Our extensive list of trusted professionals are available to assist to your employees’ needs.
Meet Skip
In 1982, Skip Higgins began his household goods moving career. Today, Custom Movers Select specializes in arranging for professional services for everything involved with moving your employees into their new community.
Services
HOUSEHOLD GOODS MOVING
The primary service offered by Custom Movers Select is household goods moving from across the entire United States, as well as to any point on the globe. Because Custom Movers is licensed by the Federal Highway Administration as a "household goods moving broker," we can handle your employees’ household goods moving through any licensed national moving company. For top, professional services, we have chosen to work exclusively with the four major van lines in America; Allied, Mayflower, North American and United Van Lines. For international shipping, each company has divisions that enable us to handle your employees’ move by air or ocean freight.
OUR SELECT SERVICES
STORAGE
Custom Movers Select will arrange for storage services if a load at origin is required prior to your employee’s ability to accept delivery at destination. Storage services are available through the van lines in one of their temperature-controlled warehouses until final delivery to residence, or delivery can be made to a separate self-storage facility of your employee’s choosing.
AUTOMOBILE MOVING
If your employee requires automobile moving in addition to household goods moving, Custom Movers Select will arrange for the transfer of your employee’s automobile with one of our select list of haulers and carriers that we have trusted for years. Our automobile moving services will be in sync with the loading and delivery dates selected for your employee’s household goods, with a one day pick-up in most cases. Pick-up and delivery is door to door. Protection is actual cash value with no deductible.
PETS TRANSFER
Custom Movers Select has chosen the most trustworthy pet transfer service in America to pick up and deliver your employee’s beloved pet before loading date and after delivery. Kennel carry sizes conform to your employee’s pet. Boarding services are available. Food and water are provided according to your employee’s specifications. Pets are transferred by air when a great distance is a factor. Pet transfer dates will be coordinated with household goods loading and delivery dates. Our service provider will also handle most exotic animals.
TEMPORARY HOUSING
If your employee requires temporary housing, Custom Movers Select will make arrangements with one of our well known and trusted national hotel/motel systems for short-term or longer accommodations. Dates will be arranged with your employee’s loading or delivery dates. Invoicing may be arranged through Custom Movers or handled separately.
SETTLING-IN SERVICE
Custom Movers Select has chosen the nation's premier concierge services. Before your employee’s move, they assist with downsizing so not to move more than wanted into your employee’s new community. After delivery, they assist with practically anything needed to help your employee settle-in. Such as arranging furniture, unpacking, sorting clothes for your closets, and hanging pictures.
REAL ESTATE
Custom Movers Select has chosen the nation's leading real estate company to handle the sale and purchase of your employee’s homes. A highly recognized, nationwide real estate agency provides specialized services to those referred by Custom Movers Select, wherever your employee is selling or buying in America.
MORTGAGE
Custom Movers Select has chosen one of American's leading mortgage brokers to assist your employee in buying a new home. Dylan Estes will oversee all aspects of your employee’s financing; by cell, text, email, or computer.
HOUSEHOLD INSURANCE
Custom Movers Select has chosen to refer to the largest network of independent insurance agents in the nation through our agent at SouthGroup, Alex Treutel. With his limitless contacts to other independent insurance agents throughout America, Alex will put your employee in contact with a local independent agent who will search for the best household insurance rates available.
About Us
Before forming his own relocation service, Custom Movers Select founder Skip Higgins was a sales manager at North American Van Lines. Skip spent several years helping folks relocate and by the early 1990’s, he incorporated his own independent Household Goods Relocation Broker Service. Today, Skip and Custom Movers Select has helped move thousands throughout the United States. Custom Movers Select specializes in arranging for professional services for everything involved with moving your employees into their new community. As an FHA licensed household goods moving broker, Custom Movers Select assure prime corporate rates and attentive care from the nations four major carriers: Allied, Mayflower, North American and United. We also provide your employees automobile moving, pet transfers, temporary housing, storage, settling-in, real estate, mortgage and household insurance. Our extensive list of trusted professionals are available to assist to your employees’ needs.
Our Team
Skip Higgins
Skip is a 1966 graduate of Louisiana State University with a BS Degree in Economics and Marketing. After serving as Corporal USMC at the Fleet Marine Corps Pacific Headquarters during the Vietnam War, he became a Vice-President of Public Relations at City National Bank in Baton Rouge. In 1982, Skip began his household goods moving career.
After serving an agency of North American Van Lines as its Sales Director for all of its locations in the capital city of every Southern State, Skip was granted a license as a "Household Goods Moving Broker." In 2000, he formed Higgins LLC d/b/a Custom Movers. Today, Skip lives 1/2 block from the beach in Bay St. Louis on the Mississippi Gulf Coast with his German Shepherd, Duke.
Jo Gilmore
Jo Gilmore is a 1988 graduate of Auburn University with a BA Degree in Fine Arts. She has years of experience in banking, real estate, and non-profit organizations. As the Chief Operating Officer of Custom Movers, Jo assists our customers through the entire process of finding the van lines that fits their particular service requirements.
Having moved around the United States several times with her husband Tim, Jo knows the value of a full service move. She handles all aspects of the process that Custom Movers Select engages to find your employee’s best van lines' options. It is her professional diligence that results in the selection of a national van line that provides your employee with the top professional moving services.
Juliana Hernandez
Juliana was born and raised in Venezuela. She graduated High School with honors in Venezuela and moved to Louisiana in 2008. She graduated from Louisiana State University as a Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Accounting. Juliana, then, got her CPA license in 2014 and had since experienced the public and private accounting sector as well as non-profit.
With a wide variety of experience in all the different areas of accounting and taxes Juliana decided to launch her own business called CPA Accounting Solutions, LLC in 2016. CPA Accounting Solutions, LLC has now been able to hire a full staff that services a wide variety of clients in several different states helping their business grow by providing bookkeeping, outsource CFO and tax services. CPA Accounting Solutions, LLC manages all of Custom Mover's finances and taxes to facilitate the company's financial stability and growth.
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131 Sycamore Street
Bay Saint Louis, MS 39520
