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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.