Before your moving crew arrives, take a minute to review.
Have you:
- Received confirmation of the date of the packing / loading crew will arrive?
- Given your Move Manager your arrival date at destination and a contact name and phone number(s) where you can be reached?
- Designated your “OFF LIMITS – NOT TO BE SHIPPED” area?
- Remove restricted articles or place them in your “OFF LIMITS” area.
- Prepare your “List of Important Items/Information” for packing/loading crew:
- Take care of my ,it is a family heirloom
- Don’t pack the baby’s diapers
- Please leave bed up until load day
- Please do not pack these cooking items (if you intend to cook or dine in)
- Don’t open this door, or my animals will get out
- Where will the hardware be for the dissembled items?
- I would like to review each page of the inventory as it is completed so I’m not rushed at the end of the day.
- Prepared electronic equipment for movement?
- Removed garage door opener from your car and given it to the buyer or Realtor?
- Flammables – nail polish, gasoline, paints, thinners, automobile oil
- Explosives – live ammunition, gun powder, fireworks
- Combustibles – aerosol cans, bottled gas, propane bar-b-que tanks (purged or otherwise)
- Corrosives – Drain-O, various types of batteries
- Cleaning fluids and detergents
- Open containers of liquids
- Canned goods or other liquid items (during winter months)
- Plants and perishable foods
- Personal items of high value, or items not easily replaced, should travel with you:
- Last three years of Income Tax Returns (to close on a new home)
- Birth Certificates and Shot Records (to enroll children in school)
- Stocks, Bonds and High Value Jewelry
- Plane Tickets and Passports
- Remove CD’s, tapes, ect…from stereo equipment
- Lock CD player (if required)
- Remove disks from computers
- Remove ink cartridges from printers
- Make back-up copies of important files
- Make manufacturer’s cartons available on the start day to pack into.
Before the driver leaves, please make sure to do a final walk through of your home. Check the dishwasher and all cupboards (don’t forget the “special occasion” cupboards or cabinets, crawl space, attic, storage shed)