All my moves had someone on the ground either before, after, or both. It's invaluable. Growing up bouncing around as a kid, my family can do a long-distance relo like it's an army mission -- checklists and fallback plans.

Glad you had a plan b -- I overnighted in a chilly ottawa basement of some ghetto airBnB when my housing glitched on arrival with cross-country move #3 ( fucking realtor landlords ), but that was remedied before the main group closed the housing at origin and arrived to prep for the indolent movers' arrival (ultimately out of the blue after being in the wind for 8 weeks with everything we owned).

I was glad we'd almost planned enough, and I could focus on the employment and keep that going.

Cross-country move #2 used NJ movers and they extorted us$10k extra to release our stuff, so one chilly overnight was ultimately survivable in comparison.