Property Advice – Make your move Easy

Planning is the key to a stress free move. Use this checklist as a guide.

6 to 8 weeks before:

• Confirm moving dates and call for quotes from movers (or organise transport and boxes)
• Confirm insurance coverage needs
• Organise transfer of telephone, electricity and water accounts

4 weeks before:

• Do an inventory of your belongings and allocate them to the rooms in your new house
• Hold a garage sale or give items you don’t need to charity or friends
• Arrange for storage of your items if needed
• Go to your new house to measure for appliances and curtains

3 weeks before:

• Get back any records you will be taking – medical, dental, school, etc.
• Keep aside important documents like passports, insurance documents, utility accounts, etc.
• Begin packing, unless you have arranged for all packing to be handled by the mover
• Make plans for your pets
• Send change of address announcements by post or e-mail

2 weeks before:

• Cancel of reschedule deliveries of newspaper, bread, garden services, etc.
• If you have a young child, book a baby sitter for moving day

1 week before:

• Arrange for a transfer of prescriptions
• Defrost and dry refrigeration/freezer (about 3 days before move)
• Remove/pack items not to be moved and label them `DO NOT MOVE´
• Pack a box of essentials needed for moving and label `LAST ON; FIRST OFF´

Courtesy Bond Choice Home Loans