Most students who board or live in an apartment are likely to do self packing when they move out to their new apartments or boarding houses. While this is a more common and practical way (because most students do not have the means to finance a moving out company) they should ensure that their belongings are properly taken care of - say, an insurance policy.  Most of the times, when students are moving out they tend to be victims of stolen personal things and at times their belonging getting destroyed.  These incident types are capable of being covered by an insurance policy.  In general, this is the best way to protect your belongings and even your own security.  When a moving company offers you insurance, it will try to its best to ensure that security of the belongings and the one that is insured is attained.  And at all cost, this insurance company will try to make sure that no claim shall be made from them.  So, the next time that you will be thinking about packing your own things and transporting them to the new house, think about hiring a company to insure, to the least, your belonging until they get perfectly transported to the new house.