Old Location/New Location Checklist
Old Location
Take these items into consideration while still at the
old location:
- Arrange for a professional mover
- Take household goods inventory
- Check with your insurance agent about coverage for the move,
transfer of policies
- Clean out closets/garage
- Send draperies and rugs to cleaners in time for packing with
other goods
- Defrost freezer
Call your landlord or the following to have services shut off
or disconnected:
- Water company
- Cable TV company
- Electric company
- Newspaper delivery
- Gas/oil company
- Dairy delivery
- Telephone company
Notify post office of new address and send change of
address cards to:
- Charge accounts
- Credit cards
- Loan companies
- Subscriptions
- Friends, relatives
Take care of household and personal business:
- Pick up any clothing, storage items from cleaners
- Empty safe-deposit box
- Arrange for banking in new location, transfer bank funds
- Arrange for local school to transfer children's records
- Ask dentist for recommendations of new dentist and arrange for
records to be forwarded
- General dentist ___________________________________
- Orthodontist _____________________________________
- Other ___________________________________________
- Ask physician(s) for recommendations and arrange for records to
be forwarded.
- Family doctor ____________________________________
- Pediatrician ______________________________________
- Specialists ______________________________________
- Obtain veterinarian records
- Have appliances serviced for moving, if applicable
- Transfer church, club, civic organization memberships; obtain
letters of introduction
- Obtain moving company's toll-free telephone number to check
progress of shipment:
- Name of company ________________________________
- Telephone number ________________________________
Make travel arrangements:
- Flight
- Hotel reservations
- Arrange for transportation of pets
- Car rental
- Plan auto route
- Tell a close friend or relative your plans — let him/her act as your message center
- Check closets, shelves, all rooms to be sure they are empty
- Leave current house or apartment in clean condition
Before Arriving At New Location
Arrange for utility services in new area:
- Water company
- Electric company
- Gas/oil company
- Telephone company
Ask new landlord, previous tenant or real estate agent for
recommendations for repair services:
- Plumber __________________________________________
- Electrician __________________________________________
- TV repair __________________________________________
New Location
- Order local newspapers
- Meet your neighbors (write down their names)
- Get recommendations for babysitters, nanny agencies, etc.
- Contact Welcome Wagon, Welcome Ambassador, or other
merchant-sponsored organizations for information and free
gifts, coupons
- Join Newcomers Club
- Put valuables into a safety deposit box in the new bank
- Arrange for new school to receive records
- Contact new dentists and doctors to arrange for record delivery
- Have pets licensed
- Arrange for new registration of cars (bicycles, also, if required)
- Obtain new driver's license if you moved to a new state, or
correct address on present license
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