Harcourts Asap Moving Guide
Moving can be stressful, follow the below guide to ensure you dont forget or miss anything on your BIG day!
Movers Checklist:
Cancel
- Subscription deliveries
- Phone and Internet
- Paid TV
- Electricity, Gas and Water
Get Organised
- Organise boxes for move
- Obtain packaging tape and heavy marker pens
- If needed organise child care for day of move
- Make suitable arrangements for any pets
- Arrange contents insurance for your new home
- Arrange Electrcity and Gas for your new home
Notify your change of address to
- Bank and Credit card companies
- Post office for redirection of mail
- Registrar of electors (at Pot Office)
- Registrar of motor vehicles and drivers license
- Tax department
- Insurance companies (house, contents, car, health, etc)
- Police (If you own and store firearms)
- Friends
- Relatives
- Doctor
- Church
- Who else sends me mail?
Remember to
- Clean the stove
- Defrost the fridge/freezer
- Tidy the yard
- Disconnect all appliances
- Return any borrowed items
- Throw out any items you dont intend of taking with you
Don't
- Put breakables or liquid containers in drawers
- Overload drawers and make furniture too heavy to shift (too much weight can damage furniture)
- Store perishable goods where they might be overlooked
Make arrangements
- See your solictor to sign transfer documents/mortgage discharge documents
- If you children are moving school advise school
- Enrol children in new school
Have one last check
- Nothing left behind?
- Electricity and Ga turned off
- Phone and Internet disconnected
- Water turned off
- Light switches turned off
- Windows and doors locked/latched