Moving From & Moving To...Your New Home!
Valuable After the Sale Checklist

CHOOSING YOUR MOVER:

Royal LePage has an agreement with AMJ Campbell Moving Vans. If interested, call us to find out the savings arrangements and free extras. When comparing firms look at Performance records: Service reputation (BBB), Estimates vs. Binding Estimates, Claims, Cleanliness policy. We also recommend other movers that satisfied clients have used.

• Estimating: the movers will want to inspect what you are moving, it is based on the weight of the goods, the distance, packing, and storage, or they base it on the # of people they need on a per hour basis and the size of the van they need to use
• Insiders' secrets on cutting costs:
  1. Pack yourself
  2. Cut down on weight
  3. Get a floor plan of your future residence (get rid of items that won't fit!)
  4. Donate items to charity
  5. Move off season
  6. Avoid overtipping
• Moving Pets: Check pet regulations, take to vet for a checkup and health documentation, check sedation, update identification for new home, if traveling by air, call airlines early.
• Moving Plants: decide which moving or simply cuttings. Best to move yourself-- wrap in a plastic bag with holes and sturdy box.

PACKING TIPS:

• Garage Sales: What you don't move you don't pay for!!
• Go For It!!!
• Categorized your items, (glassware, books, tools)
• Price tag on everything (people will negotiate)
• Advertise in local papers (very small)
• Arrange for a garage sale sign (professional from Royal LePage)
• Early Bird means before 7:00 am shoppers will arrive!!
• Have plenty of change on hand
• If asked to hold an item, get a downpayment.
• Serve coffee/lemonade
• Obtain a supply of boxes for moving and devise a colour code system for the various room designations.

IF YOU OWN YOUR OWN HOME:

• Arrange to have your gas, water, and electric meters read on the day you leave and have the bills forwarded to your new address.
• Have your oil tank read and filled before your sale closes, and provide a receipt to your legal professional if required.
• If the water heater or furnace is rented, arrange for a transfer of the rental agreement to the purchaser.
• Disconnect your telephone, cable TV, and water softener.

IF YOU RENT YOUR CURRENT HOME:

• Give necessary written notice to your landlord and make arrangements for the return of any monies you have on deposit.

HELPFUL TIPS:

• Obtain a "Change of Address" form from the Post Office to ensure that mail from all friends, relatives, companies etc. with whom you have done business will automatically forward your mail to the new address.
• Leave a note of your new address in the house so the new occupants can forward any mail.
• Take the telephone directory with you. It will be useful in case you need to contact former doctors or business contacts and for sending out Christmas cards.
• Cancel pre-authorized cheques issued for contract services.
• Advise your telephone and TV cable suppliers regarding the sale arrangements
• Inform gardening, dry cleaning services, trash pick up, newspaper deliveries, diaper and other home services.
• Notify magazine, record and book club, insurance and credit card companies, department store, charge accounts, license bureaus, finance companies, stock brokers and accountants.
• Transfer banking accounts, securities; establish new accounts with a letter of introduction.
• Cancel or transfer social athletic, civic, religious or business affiliations or memberships.
• Arrange transfer of medical and dental records, prescriptions and optical records.

MISCELLANEOUS:

• Arrange access to the keys for your new home with your lawyer.
• Collect all items for cleaning, storage or repair. Fur coats, dry-cleaning, laundry, watches, shoes or small appliances.
• Drop off library books and anything else you may have borrowed.
• Arrange servicing of all home appliances for the move.
• Discard all flammable liquids including gasoline used in gardening and recreational motors