What a Move Costs Between the Two Houses

A move bills separately from the house, and it bills in pieces over roughly eight weeks: storage, a truck, the nights between two addresses, the appliances that do not convey, a warranty for systems nobody has met yet. Every Holzl Homes client has the HomeCare™ Discount Center for all of it, free, including PODS up to 30% off, Budget Truck up to 21% off, a member hotel desk up to 50% off, appliances up to 55% off and American Home Shield up to 50% off. Many offers pay cash back on top of the member price. It is one part of Holzl HomeCare™, which looks after people before they buy or sell, through the move, and forever after.

Key takeaways

• What a move bills you for: storage, a truck, hotel nights, junk removal, appliances, a warranty, the first project
• What the Discount Center costs a client: nothing
• The moving offers: PODS up to 30% off, Budget Truck up to 21% off, a member hotel desk up to 50% off, appliances up to 55% off, American Home Shield up to 50% off
• Two savings on one purchase: the member price, then cash back calculated on what you paid
• How long it lasts: for life, Forever Clients included
• Where we serve: the Fox Valley area of Illinois and beyond
• How to get in: one sign-in through the HomeCare Client Portal
• Who runs it: Holzl Homes with Keller Williams Infinity, led by Carie Holzl with brokers Stacy Schoester, Christa Mabry and Michelle Meyer

Two Closing Dates That Do Not Quite Meet

Two closing dates that do not quite meet. It is the most ordinary thing that happens in a move, and the most expensive.

A household has to live somewhere for four weeks. The furniture has to live somewhere too, and it is not the same place. None of that appears in the number people quote each other, which is the purchase price. The move keeps its own ledger, sends it in fragments weeks apart, and each fragment is small enough to pay without ever adding up the column.

The fragments are not mysterious, though. They are the same ones in roughly the same order every time, which is what makes them easy to get in front of.

Eight Weeks, In The Order They Arrive

The first one usually lands around eight weeks out, when a household needs somewhere to be for a month. PODS runs up to 30% off.

A client who knows that list is coming is not surprised by a line on it, and does not pay retail for one either.

• Four weeks out, the decisions about what is not worth carrying to the next house. 1-800-GOT-JUNK and Grunber take what stays behind.
• Two weeks out, the truck. Budget Truck up to 21% off.
• Closing week, the nights that belong to neither address. There is a member hotel desk at up to 50% off, staffed by people who do the searching for you.
• Week one in the new place, the appliances that did not convey. Frigidaire and Electrolux up to 55% off, Whirlpool up to 46% off, GE Appliances up to 40% off.
• Week two, the systems nobody has met yet. American Home Shield up to 50% off.
• Week three, the project that was half the reason for the house. West Shore Home bath remodel 20% off, Window Nation 10% off plus a free door.

The Years After The Truck Leaves

Angi’s State of Home Spending Report found U.S. homeowners spent an average of $12,472 on home projects in 2025, including $2,041 on maintenance and $1,143 on emergency repairs. Most of that is a choice somebody made happily. Some of it is a Tuesday.

Either way it is spread across years, not weeks, and that is the whole argument for a program with no end date on it. The calendar most of this business runs on is about two weeks wide on either side of a signature. Holzl HomeCare™ runs on the one the house is actually on.

Two Things Happen At The Register

They are not the same thing, and people often read them as one. The member price replaces the public price before you pay. The cash back arrives afterwards, worked out on what you actually spent. The Home Depot runs up to 8% cash back inside the marketplace, paid on the lower number you already got.

An American Bankers Association survey conducted by Morning Consult found that 82% of cardholders have at least one credit card that offers rewards, and 90% said they value the rewards program on their cards. So the second layer is familiar enough. What is different is what it hangs off. Not an application, a balance and a card to keep in good standing, but a house, and the fact that somebody bought or sold it with us.

The Fifty Weeks With No Boxes In Them

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics found that average annual expenditures per household were $78,535 in 2024, including $3,609 on entertainment, $3,945 on food away from home, and $2,001 on apparel and services. Nobody has to be sold a movie night. It was already on the calendar.

Deloitte’s Digital Media Trends report put average household spending on streaming video at $69 per month, with 73% of consumers saying they are frustrated that services keep raising prices. Disney+ and Hulu run 61% off.

Over 100,000 brands sit behind that login, Nike, Under Armour and Disney among them.

• Movie tickets up to 52% off at AMC, Regal, Cinemark, Showcase and LOOK, with Regal at 35% off tickets and concessions
• Active&Fit gyms up to 70% off, UPS shipping up to 65% off
• HP up to 62% off, Skechers 30% off, Sharper Image 30% off, Fanatics 25% off
• Garmin and Fitbit up to 20% off, Ray-Ban 15% off, Sonos 10% off
• Chuck E. Cheese up to 50% off, LEGOLAND up to 40% off, CityPASS up to 50% off
• NFL, MLB, NBA, soccer and concert tickets with no service fees
• Member auto buying when it is time to replace the car

The Part That Changes Overnight

One section of the marketplace does not hold still. The daily deals feed reaches up to 78% off, rebuilds itself every morning, and an individual offer inside it can be gone by the afternoon. Nike has sat in there at 63% off. There is no planning around that, which is why it belongs to whoever happens to look.

Why This Comes From A Real Estate Team

A seller choosing between two teams is reading two sets of promises that look identical on paper. Local expertise, hard work, good communication. A stranger cannot check a word of it.

A login can be checked. So can a shed with folding tables in it, and an office in Geneva where somebody will scan a document for you. More than 650 families have bought or sold with Holzl Homes, and the program exists because this team would rather be the one they call about the next house, and the one their sister calls when she moves in the spring.

Alongside the marketplace, Holzl HomeCare™ carries the party supplies and the tool and landscaping equipment clients borrow, the office services, including scanning and black and white copies at the Geneva office, a market rent analysis, a market review of your home, referrals to vetted real estate people anywhere in the country and use of the office meeting space, and the HomeCare Hub, which is free to anyone, client or not. It starts before you buy or sell, carries through the move, and does not stop after it.

If a move is anywhere in the next year, the first step is a small one, and it starts with a conversation rather than a decision.

About Holzl Homes

Holzl Homes is a real estate team with Keller Williams Infinity serving the Fox Valley area of Illinois and beyond. Led by Carie Holzl with brokers Stacy Schoester, Christa Mabry and Michelle Meyer, the team has over $225M in career home volume, 650+ families served, and ranks in the top 1% of agents in Kane County.

5 N. Third St., Suite 201, Geneva, IL 60134. (630) 299-4459. holzlhomes.com

Frequently asked questions

What does the HomeCare™ Discount Center cost?

Nothing. It comes with Holzl HomeCare™ when you buy or sell with us, and it is yours for life.

Can I use it for the move itself?

That is one of the strongest categories in it. PODS up to 30% off and Budget Truck up to 21% off for the move. A member hotel desk at up to 50% off for the nights in between. 1-800-GOT-JUNK and Grunber for what stays behind. Frigidaire and Electrolux up to 55% off, Whirlpool up to 46% off and GE Appliances up to 40% off for the appliances that did not convey, and American Home Shield up to 50% off for the warranty.

I closed with you years ago. Is mine still live?

Yes. Our Forever Clients have the same access as somebody under contract this week. Access is tied to having bought or sold with us, never to having a deal open, because the expensive part of owning a home is measured in years.

Does the cash back come instead of the discount?

It comes on top. You buy at the member price, and then a percentage of what you spent is returned to you, worked out on that lower price. The Home Depot, for example, runs up to 8% cash back.

Nothing is moving at my house. Is it still worth signing in?

That is when most of the value is sitting there unused. The moving offers are the loudest part of the marketplace and the smallest slice of a year. Streaming, gyms, shipping, tickets, appliances and the daily deals feed are all there on an ordinary Tuesday.

I have not bought or sold with Holzl Homes. Can I get in?

Not the Discount Center. It comes with being a client, along with the equipment and the rest of the HomeCare Client Portal. The HomeCare Hub is the part that is free to anyone, and if a move is on your mind, a conversation about the house is the place to start.

How do I get in?

One sign-in, through the HomeCare Client Portal. It is already waiting there, and it takes a few minutes to set up.

Where does Holzl Homes work?

We serve the Fox Valley area of Illinois and beyond. That includes Batavia, Geneva, St. Charles, Aurora, Naperville, Elgin and the surrounding Kane County communities. Moving out of the area, and we will hand you to vetted real estate people wherever you are going.

Sources

• Average annual expenditures per household were $78,535 in 2024, including $3,609 on entertainment, $3,945 on food away from home, and $2,001 on apparel and services. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Expenditures 2024
• 82% of cardholders have at least one credit card that offers rewards, and 90% said they value the rewards program on their cards. American Bankers Association, Fall 2025 Morning Consult survey
• Average household spending on streaming video was $69 per month, with 73% of consumers frustrated that services keep raising prices. Deloitte, Digital Media Trends
• U.S. homeowners spent an average of $12,472 on home projects in 2025, including $2,041 on maintenance and $1,143 on emergency repairs. Angi, State of Home Spending Report

Come see us. We are at 5 N. Third St., Suite 201, Geneva, IL 60134. If you would rather start with a number than a visit, call (630) 299-4459 and we will tell you what your house is worth. holzlhomes.com

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