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. |
