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Tips for Creating a Moving Checklist

Check out the tasks you need to accomplish before you move out.

  1. Inform the house landlord or the landlady exactly when you are moving out.
  2. Settle deposit and rent exchange in advance.
  3. Check the bond conditions or lease period you signed earlier.
  4. Make a list of items you own
  5. Segregate which do you need and which you dispose it off.
  6. Estimate the weight of your luggage.
  7. Buy suitable baggage or box for shipping your luggage.
  8. Estimate the cost to ship
  9. Contact the packers and movers to help you out in packing and dispatching your luggage
  10. If you are planning to transport your luggage on your own by hiring a vehicle, book the vehicle in advance for the required date and time.
  11. Mention the address of your new house with contact numbers they need to deliver your luggage.
  12. Settle the prices initially.
  13. Update your new address to your friends and relatives.
  14. Pay off the pending bills and close the accounts at the current address. Keep all the bills for further reference.
  15. Update your new address to the tax office , insurance office, water and electricity boards, and banks. Request them politely to continue correspondence at your new address.
  16. Never develop any attachment towards your rented house.
  17. Keep aside all the things you have to pack. Now the day you are moving out is approaching, start packing well in advance so you don't need to hurry out things at the last moment.
  18. Start packing things one by one adjusting space and segregating item - clothes ,utensils, jars, etc.
  19. Wait! Was his house the same as you entered the first time?
  20. Clean the house and bring it back to a presentable condition for the next customers.
  21. Don't forget to bid your neighbors good bye.
  22. Run a final eye to check your belongings before you lock the door.

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