Moving Checklist

Moving Checklist:

  1. Give notice to landlord if renting
  2. Contact all companies you do business with & provide new address
  3. Contact all health care providers to get your medical records if you are moving to a new area
  4. Deliver your medical records to your new health care providers
  5. Contact telephone company and arrange for service & get new telephone number
  6. Contact family & friends and provide new address and telephone number
  7. Contact home insurance company for old address & terminate policy
  8. Contact home insurance company for new address & arrange for appropriate amount of coverage
  9. Contact car/boat/RV insurance company and change address
  10. Go to DMV and change address for self and all vehicles
  11. Go to Board of Elections and change address
  12. Go to Post Office and submit change of address to forward mail
  13. Change address for all financial, medical & insurance benefits
  14. Change address at your job
  15. Reserve moving truck, pads & related equipment or contact moving company after selecting move date
  16. Decide on how pets are to be moved
  17. Arrange for family/friends to help with move
  18. Get marking pens, labels, colored dots, boxes, tape and moving blankets
  19. Contact cable/satellite company at new address & start service
  20. Contact cable/satellite company at old address & discontinue service
  21. Contact electric company at new address & start service
  22. Contact electric company at old address & discontinue service
  23. Contact gas company at new address & start service
  24. Contact gas company at old address & discontinue service
  25. Contact newspaper company at new address & start service
  26. Contact newspaper company at old address & discontinue service
  27. Contact telephone company and start service at your new address
  28. Contact telephone company and discontinue service at your old address
  29. Contact trash company at new address & start service
  30. Contact trash company at old address & discontinue service
  31. Contact water company at new address & start service
  32. Contact water company at old address & discontinue service
  33. Label boxes with room/location of where belongings are to be placed, color code with label dots, number etc. to assist movers. At new location place colored dots/numbers on doors to where boxes/belongings are to go
  34. Clean (or arrange for cleaning) of home you are leaving. Clean carpets at new property or old property before as required
  35. Paint or touch up paint as required
  36. Keep enough clothing, medicines, health aides, and beauty aids set aside, so if all your belongings don't arrive quickly (or you can't find the box), you won't have to purchase replacements.

Posted in Buyer Tips, Seller Tips on Feb 24, 2011