Employers Relocation Services
We are specialists in employee relocation including home purchase programs, inventory management and destination services. Contact us today for a free employee relocation policy review for your company!
Policy Development & Implementation
We help you formulate a relocation policy with the latest and most accurate information available, including advice on best practices and competitive practices. We also keep you informed of any tax law changes that may affect your relocation policy. We are there not only to assist you in the details, but more importantly, to take care take care of your employees.
Our staff will act on your behalf to explain relocation/moving tax issues and procedures to stay in compliance with IRS guidelines during the move process, especially if selling a home is involved. We will coordinate the entire process, from auditing and reimbursing expense forms to packing, moving and storing household goods and everything in between. We will work with your payroll department to compute gross-ups on the appropriate expenses and provide all the necessary reports.
Outsourcing of Relocation Benefits
Reliable Relocation manages all aspects of your relocation program, relieving your company of the need to provide staff for these services. With high-touch management of your program, we answer all employee questions, provide employees with written information about their benefits via e-mail, and support your efforts to provide relocation benefits.
Destination Services
We work with the industry’s leading real estate firms to provide your employee with home-buying assistance. It’s important to us that your employee finds the right home at the right price in the best neighborhood to fit their lifestyle. Our database of detailed agent profiles gives us information about many aspects of the agent’s professional and personal life so that we can match agents and customers with similar interests. We stay in touch with both your employee and the agent throughout the home-search process to make sure things are going well and that the agent and our customer are a good match.
We are an independent relocation service; therefore, we choose the best agent for your employee without regard to ownership or franchise. Your employee’s satisfaction is our priority. With one call to our office, Reliable Relocation will send a community information packet filled with useful information about the new community including maps, school, church and civic information. If your employee is not sure where they want to live, we’ll help them narrow down the choices.
When your employee needs accommodations for 30 days or more, Reliable Relocation offers your transferee exciting short-term housing options. We choose the best apartment communities and deliver clean, contemporary furnishings at a reasonable price.
We coordinate a rental tour with an overview of the community so your employee can choose the best place to live as an educated consumer.
- Overview of the communities surrounding the employee’s place of employment
- Research on available properties
- Coordinate and schedule appointments
- Tour available properties
- Assist in lease negotiation
Reliable Relocation works with several leading mortgage lenders to provide mortgage services to Reliable Relocation’s clients with enormous benefits. Reliable Relocation makes obtaining a mortgage for relocating people faster and less expensive with the following features:
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Special mortgage pricing currently lower than our published rates for both relocating employees and corporate employee benefits services.
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Streamlined loan programs to fit many financial or lifestyle needs.
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Experienced and professional loan originators.
Our personalized guided tour is perfect for the employee or family who has accepted a position in the destination area and now wants to find the right community, neighborhood, and home to fit their lifestyle. Our area orientation tours are conducted by qualified business professionals who are also residents of the desired destination. Both half day and full day tours are available and include the following:
- Provide phone interview prior to the tour to assess needs and preferences
- Provide in-depth local neighborhood information
- Discuss real estate price ranges and market conditions in detail
- Personalized information for special needs and preferences
- Assess and discuss driving times to employer location from various communities
- Tour neighborhood shopping, entertainment, and local points of interest
- Arrange for school tours if desired
Expense Management
Reliable Relocation takes the headaches out of relocation expense tracking. You can outsource everything to us including: tracking and categorizing all employee relocation expenses calculating lump sum payments calculating gross-up contributions according to your policy completing year-end reconciliation generating IRS required forms and reports interfacing with your payroll creating customized reports
Home Marketing Program
We find the best real estate company and the most appropriate sales associate to sell your employee’s home. This program gets your employee to the new location and focused on the new job more quickly. It also reduces the need for temporary housing and storage of household goods. We work with at least two agents for each of your transferring employees. Each agent provides your employee with a detailed written market analysis. These reports will give the employee insight into current market conditions, competitive listings, condition issues to remedy and a marketing strategy to sell within 120 days.
Home Purchase Programs
Save Thousands in Payroll Taxes and Get Value Added! If you currently reimburse your employees for home sale expenses, you are paying thousands of dollars more in payroll taxes and tax gross-ups on each move than you would if we handled your employee moves for you. Let Reliable Relocation manage your next move and your company will save thousands of dollars in taxes plus you will get professional service and advice.
We help you custom design home purchase programs to fit the needs of your corporate culture and budget. These programs include buyer value options (BVOs), amended value sales, and traditional appraised value home purchases.
Your employees are always number one to us, and we know that communication is the key to a successful program.
- Consistency. Your employee and relocation manager will speak with the same person throughout the relocation process. This assures clear and quick communication with fewer questions and less confusion.
- Sensitivity to cost & corporate issues. We will find creative ways to meet your financial objectives while operating with your company’s corporate culture in mind.
- Benefits include: high-touch service for the corporation and the employee, payroll tax savings, and cost containing discounts.
We are specialists in employee relocation including home purchase programs, inventory management and destination services.
Equity Advances/Bridge Loans
Reliable Relocation coordinates equity advances to your employees as directed by your policy. An equity advance will allow your employees to close on their new home before the proceeds are available on their old home. This allows a smoother transition for the relocating family and less storage expense for the company.
International Services
- Household Goods Packing, Moving & Storage
- International Destination Home Finding
- International Destination Rental Assistance
- Immigration Law Referrals
- Repatriation Adjustment Service
- Expense Administration
- Planning and Pre-move Services
- Departure Services in US including Home Sale or Home Marketing Programs (International Services scope of work vary based on country of origin and departure)
Please note that we DO NOT rent, list or manage privately owned real estate. |