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 services for the move.
- Contact the utility companies
in the city 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:
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Check on service
of telephone, gas, water, and electricity 3-4 days before moving.
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Have your stove
serviced-check pilot light (if gas).
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Check pilot on
hot water heater and furnace.
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Have refrigerator,
dishwasher, and television checked.
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Ask mailman for
mail he may holding for your arrival.
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Have new address
recorded on driver's license.
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Visit county offices
at least thirty days before election and register to vote.
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Register car within
five days after arrival in state or penalty may have to be paid
when getting new license
plates.
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Register family
in your new place of worship.
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Register children
in school.
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