BEFORE
YOU MOVE FROM YOUR PRESENT ADDRESS
•
Reading of gas, electric, and water meters.
• Cancel telephone, electric, newspaper,
and other services and deliveries.
• Inform your utility companies of
where you would like the final bills mailed.
•
Have your refrigerator and other appliances
serviced for the move.
•
Contact the utility companies in the city
where you are moving.
• Ask them about necessary fees or
deposits required for installation of
services.
• Send change of address cards to
your local post office, magazines,
insurance companies,
friends, and stores.
•
Transfer your fire insurance
on household goods or other
insurance
on personal
possessions
so that they will be covered
at your new
home and
en route.
•
Notify the principal of your
children's school about your intended
move.
• Get a letter from him/her
covering the status of your children
in school.
•
Notify the pastor of your
church that you are moving.
•
Obtain birth records and baptism
records of all family members.
• Get medical records.
•
Transfer your checking and
savings accounts.
•
Have your present bank
arrange credit references
for establishing
new
accounts in
your new town.
•
Arrange for sufficient cash
or traveler's cheques to cover
the cost
of expenses until
you
make banking connections in
the city to
which you
are moving.
•
Leave keys for your old property
with your REALTOR or neighbors.
ONCE
YOU MOVE INTO YOUR NEW ADDRESS
•
Check on service of telephone, gas, water,
and electricity 6-7
days before moving.
•
Have your stove serviced-check pilot light(if
gas).
•
Check pilot on hot water heater and furnace.
• Have refrigerator, dishwasher, and
television checked.
•
Ask mailman for mail he may be holding for
your arrival.
•
Have new address recorded on driver's license.
•
Visit county offices at least thirty days
before election and register to vote.
• Register car within five days after
arrival in state or penalty may have
to be paid when getting
new license plates.
•
Register family in your new place of worship.
•
Register children in school.
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