How to Update Your Address With Banks and Credit Cards
Your financial accounts are usually the ones you most want to get right after a move, and also the ones most likely to push back when…
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249 articles totalWhat to Do If the Movers Are Late or Don’t Show
The truck was supposed to be in your driveway at eight. It's now past ten, the boxes are stacked by the door, and nobody has called.…
What to Expect on Moving Day
The day the truck shows up tends to loom large in your head, especially if you've never hired movers before. You picture chaos, strangers in your…
How to Handle Mail for the Previous Resident at Your New Home
You unpack the last box, grab the stack of envelopes from the mailbox, and half of them are addressed to people you've never met. A bank…
How to Set Up Internet and Cable at Your New Home
Few things make a new place feel ready faster than getting online. Boxes can wait; a working connection lets you stream, work from home, set up…
How to Sell Your Stuff Before Moving (Yard Sale to Online)
Once you've sorted your belongings and set aside a pile to sell, the job changes from deciding to doing: turning that pile into cash before the…
How to Locate and Test Your New Home’s Shutoffs and Breakers
The night a supply line bursts under your kitchen sink is the worst possible time to start hunting for the water shutoff. You want to already…
How to Move During the School Year vs. Summer
Once you know you're relocating a family, one question tends to outweigh the rest of the logistics: do you move now, in the middle of the…
How to Do a Final Walkthrough Before You Leave
The truck is loaded, the rooms echo, and you're standing in a doorway with the keys in your hand. This is the moment most people rush,…
Why You Should Change the Locks Before Moving In (and How)
The keys handed to you at closing are almost never the only keys that exist. Over the years a house collects copies the way a junk…
How to Transfer Your Driver’s License and Car Registration to a New State
Crossing a state line with a fully loaded truck is the easy part. The paperwork that makes you a legal driver and your car a legally…
How to Transfer School Records When You Move
Switching school districts is one of the quieter parts of a move, but it carries a deadline that the boxes and the truck do not. Your…