When moving your home also means moving your workplace, finding a good mover and getting packed can be the least of your worries. Detroit-area blogger and work-at-home mom Melissa Summers of SuburbanBliss.net and MightyJunior.com, who has moved twice in just over a year, shared her top five moving tips for home-based entrepreneurs. (Interview conducted by Maia Nolan).

1. Plan ahead.

After two moves with two kids and two home businesses, Summers can think of some things she wishes she’d done differently.

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I miss my family. I love my family. I have to say that right upfront because I don’t want you to get the wrong impression because of what I’m about to say.

But I’ve been away from my family for a week and damn if I haven’t gotten an enormous amount of work done in a short period of time.

If you’re married or closely partnered with a significant other, then you know how an intimate relationship can really impinge on work. For better or for worse, since I got married, the work side of my life has been reduced to a small window of time and my productivity has suffered greatly.

Maybe it’s just me, maybe others don’t experience the same thing or have a different perspective on work/life balance. I just had no idea that “compromise” meant that my work day would have to be reduced by half and tucked into a time frame when frankly I’m just not that productive.

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