Lake Zurich business introduces college moving program for Lake County residents

After sending his fourth daughter off to college, Bob Koldon has become good at saying goodbye.

Knowing the difficulty of leaving a child on those dormitory steps, Koldon, president of Koldon Moving & Storage, a 34-year-old family-owned Lake Zurich moving company, decided he’d make it a little easier for parents like himself by creating an in-state college-bound moving program.

“It’s emotional enough leaving your child,” Koldon said. “We said let’s develop a plan to make it easier for this transition without parents fighting with kids and kids fighting with mom and dad.”

College Bound, a moving program developed for graduating high school seniors and other students enrolled in college, helps pack students’ belongings and delivers them to their college doorstep.

Libby Freshour, College Bound coordinator, said the moving company will arrange a time to serve students depending on the move-in date for their university. A moving van will come to their address and provide cartons for them to pack their belongings. The cost for the service is based on the size and number of cartons used, the smallest priced at $20 and the largest at around $100.

Koldon said based on the number of units the student needs and space taken up in the van, prices can range anywhere from $150 to $500 or $600.

“This is the perfect opportunity, with the way the economy is, gas prices, people having lost their jobs, for Koldon to give back to the people that have supported us throughout these years,” Freshour said.

The company is targeting Lake County residents, reaching out to seven high schools — Lake Zurich, Barrington, Stevenson, Fremd, Wauconda, Libertyville, and St. Viator.

Program coordinators said they plan to serve around 200 students with the new program — 12 students have already signed up, but the bulk of responses won’t be seen for 30 days.

Dan McNamara, a 51-year-old Lake Zurich resident, said he plans to use the program when he moves his son, Russell McNamara, 24, into an apartment next fall for his senior year at Northern Illinois University. McNamara said he barely fit his son’s belongings into two compact cars when he was moving his son out of a dorm this spring,

“I have not heard of a program like this. It’s a great niche to help students get to school,” he said. “It will be a lot smoother to be able to have a professional that knows about moving working with us.”