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Moving Checklist

Selling Your Home

Las Vegas Area Real Estate

 

 

Six Weeks Before You Move

  • Make an inventory of everything to be moved
  • Collect everything not to be moved for a garage sale or charity
  • Contact charity for date and time of pick up
  • Save receipts for tax records
  • Contact several moving companies for estimates
  • Select mover, arrange for exact form of payment at destination
  • Get cartons and packing materials to start packing now
  • Check with employer to find out what moving expenses they will pay

 

 

 

Four Weeks Before You Move

  • Fill out post office change of address forms and give them to Postmaster
  • Notify all magazines of changes of address
  • Check with all veterinarians for pet records and immunizations
  • Contact insurance agent to cancel or transfer coverage
  • Dry clean clothes to be moved.  Pack them in protective wrappers
  • Collect everything you have loaned out, return everything you have borrowed
  • Service power mowers, boats, snowmobiles, etc that are to be moved.  Drain all gas and oil to prevent fire in moving van
  • Check with doctors and dentist for all family records and prescriptions
  • Get children's school records
  • Check freezer and plan how you are going to use your food for the next two to three weeks
  • Remove all jewelry and other valuables to a safe deposit box or other safe place to prevent loss during move
  • Give away or arrange for transportation of houseplants

 

One Week Before You Move

  • Contact utility companies to set turn-off dates
  • Transfer or close checking and savings accounts
  • Arrange for cashier's check or money order to pay moving company upon arrival
  • Have automobile serviced if driving long distance
  • Check and make and inventory of all furniture for dents and scratches.  Notify moving company of your inventory and compare on final day
  • Dispose of all combustables and spray cans
  • Pack a separate carton of moving and cleaning tools
  • Separate cartons and luggage you need for travel
  • Mark all boxes that you pack with the room they will be going into at your new home
  • Organize at least one room in the house for packers and movers to move freely
  • Cancel all newspapers, garden service, pool service, etc
  • Review the entire list to make certain you haven't overlooked anything

 

On Moving Day

  • Hire a babysitter or send the children to a friend's house for the day (pets, too, if they're not friendly)
  • Stay with the moving van driver to oversee inventory
  • Tell packers and/or the driver about fragile items
  • Make a final check of the entire house, basement, closets, shelves, attic, garage and all other rooms
  • Approve and sign the moving forms
  • Double check with the driver to make certain that the moving company records show the correct property delivery address of your new residence

 

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