Moving Checklist
The buyer’s check list to moving. You’ve found the home, now you have to move. It doesn’t matter how far you are going, moving can take a great deal of time for preparation and coordination.
Weeks Prior
1. Pick up a change of address form from the post office if necessary
2. Make a list of all items that will need address changes
a. Credit cards
b. Bank accounts
c. Subscriptions to magazines
d. Driver’s license
e. Insurance company (automobile, life, health, etc.)
3. If you are moving to a new area (out of the city, out of the state)
a. Ask your doctor, dentist, etc. for a referral in the new area.
b. Research and obtain all required documents to enroll in a new school for yourself or your children
c. Call the local DMV if moving states
4. Pack everything that you don’t frequently use and label boxes for convenience
5. Make reservations or arrangements for moving your boxes, furniture, and appliances
6. Inform utility companies of your move
A Week Before
1. Confirm reservations or arrangements for moving
2. Check with utility companies to ensure cancellation
3. Call new utility companies to set up or transfer service
4. Verify closing date and time, check in day and time, or lease date and time
5. All excess should be packed and necessities only remaining
Moving Day
1. Clean up
2. Pack up necessities. Make sure they are labelled and accessible for arrival at your new place
3. Submit change of address form, inform important parties of your move, and make sure you call all the companies on your checklist from step 2 (under weeks prior)
4. Confirm utilties have been transferred to your new place and shut off (or transferred) at your current location
5. Breathe, it’s almost over
