There are lots of things that can make moving home stressful, but there are lots of ways that you can help mitigate some of these. Planning your moving date and ensuring that you start packing up non-essential items as soon as you can, helps to prevent a mad packing rush at the last minute. There are also a number of legal documents and utility-based items that you can also plan in advance.
Insurance – you will need to make sure that you have all the necessary insurance in place for your new home, and this should include contents and buildings insurance. An Insurance Brokers Bristol way, such as Mark Richard can help you out with this. You may find that if your moving in date overlaps with your rental lease ending that you need to have insurance cover for both of the properties.
Utilities – when it comes to moving into a new property, you will need to remember to provide your existing utility company with a meeting reading for the property you are vacating and the new utility company with a starting meter reading for the property that you are moving into. In some cases, you may also like to switch the provider to a different company. If you have a water meter, you will also need to take a reading at both of the properties.
Other important things to consider are registering for council tax, changing or porting over your home telephone number and the internet and broadband television providers that you are going to use.
