Helpful Tips for Relocation

For those of you relocating to a Signature Home in the Birmingham, Nashville, Huntsville, and Baton Rouge areas here are some helpful hits for creating a moving timeline.  By organizing your time you facilitate the relocation process. The entire printable moving checklist is included.

2 Months Before

Sort through closets, drawers, and cabinets to weed out what you don’t want or need.

Hold a yard sale, or donate unwanted items to charity.

6 Weeks Before

If moving out of town, make travel arrangements.

Notify your children’s schools of the move and contact new schools for enrollment information.

1 Month Before

Inform utility companies to disconnect services the day after you move

Then, have new service activated several days before you arrive at your new house.

If you’re packing your house yourself, order supplies and start packing boxes.

1 Week Before

Finish packing boxes.

Arrange payment or deposit for movers.

Complete change-of-address forms at the post office, and send notices to magazine subscriptions, creditors, friends and relatives, alumni organizations, credit cards, banks, and any other necessary companies and organizations.

Pack suitcases you plan to move yourself with clothes, toiletries, jewelry, and important financial records and documents.

Moving Day

Pack your first-night box.

Lock windows, turn off lights, close doors, and take a final tour after the movers have finished to make certain nothing is left behind.

Source:  Martha Stewart

http://www.marthastewart.com/274838/moving-checklists/@center/276998/organizing-checklists

Printable Moving Checklist

http://images.marthastewart.com/images/content/web/pdfs/2009Q3/ms_checklist_moving.pdf

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