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Safety and Moving Tips
Before you leave your present address
  • Reading of gas meter, electric meter, & water meter.
  • Cancel: telephone, diaper service, newspaper delivery, etc.
  • Inform the utility companies where you will want the final bills mailed to.
  • Have your refrigerator and other appliances serviced for the move.
  • Write the utility company in the city to which 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 en route.
  • Notify the principle of your children’s school about your intended move. Get letter from him/her covering the status of your children in school.
  • Notify pastor of your church that you are moving.
  • Obtain birth records and baptism records of all family members.
  • Get medical records of shots, eyeglass prescriptions, etc.
  • 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 checks 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.
At your new address
  • Check on service of telephone, gas, electricity, and water 3-4 days before moving.
  • Have your stove serviced- check pilot light (if gas).
  • Check pilot light on hot water heater and furnace.
  • Have refrigerator, dishwasher, and television set 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 30 days before the election and register for voting.
  • Register car within 5 days after arrival in state or a penalty may have to be paid when getting new license plates.
  • Register family in your new place of worship.
  • Register children in school.
  • Obtain and post a list of emergency telephone numbers.
  • Open new checking and savings accounts locally.
  • Locate new physician, dentist, and optometrist.
  • Arrange for newspaper delivery.
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