As for day/time, I wasn't given a date, but I'm guessing Wednesday or Thursday based on what the freight carrier said. I got permission to ship to my office (hurrah for fork trucks and delivery docks), but was told I need to have it out within 24 hours of arrival, so basically the day it arrives.
Unload time is really whatever works for you guys. I'm assuming after 5:00 will be best, but I'll have the rental truck over night (unless someone has a pickup they want to volunteer, but then it would need to be in work hours at least to get it loaded).
Current plan is:
1) Make sure it doesn't sound like shattered glass.
2) Get rental truck (UHaul).
3) Get crate home.
4) Open crate and strip out contents (sump, t-shirts, etc packed inside the tank).
5) Get help moving it inside (first floor apartment,but not a ton of space).
6) Drive to hardware store while I still have the truck, get some 2x6's to make a Rocket Engineer stand as I sadly ran out of time to integrate the old stand in to the shipping crate.
It's certainly not relative to Texas. An East Bay home or a San Jose home is still going to be 750K+ and usually less than 1100 sq. ft and on a small lot. In "relative terms" my daughter just bought a 2400 sq ft house in Houston on a half acre (with a basketball court) completely updated for $210K. Note: she considers it a very small house relatively speaking.)
