New Home 101: Moving Into Your New Home

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May 30, 2024
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When you’re getting ready to leave your old home and start living in your new one, the weeks leading up to your move will be full of excitement and maybe a little stress. You’ll have a better time moving, settling in, and afterward if you are well-organized and know what to expect.

Getting Ready to Move

Knowing when your home will be ready should be easy if you’ve been in close contact with your builder. Despite this, problems can still happen like land divisions, even when the building phase is over. For example, an ice storm could stop workers from getting to the site, or there could be some other delay.

Planning for your move should be done while you wait—you’re probably on pins and needles with joy. Once your home is finished in a few weeks, you should have a lot to do, unlike the last six months or so when you were waiting for the workers to do their work but nothing else to do.

You can print out and mark up the floor plan for your new home as a fun and useful activity. This way, you’ll know where everything will go when you’re ready to move. This can help you choose which furniture to keep and figure out what you might need to buy for your new home.

You can also share the floor plan with the movers on the day of the move-in, which will make their job easier if you hire them. You might want to print more than one so that you can put them up in your new home while the movers are moving.

Line Up a Mover

Hire a mover to do all of your work, from the big lifting to the small tasks. You can start looking for a professional moving even if you don’t know the exact date of your move. That is, unless you can get your friends and family to help you instead.

Ask your real estate agent, your friends, and the sales expert in the area where you’re moving to for suggestions. You should call the movers’ past clients and make sure the moving company has a license.

As you plan your move, it’s important to know what kind of protection the moving company offers for things that get lost, damaged, or stolen. If you’re moving from one state to another, federal and state laws affect your benefits. If you’re moving within the same state, state laws protect you.

Mover companies that work across state lines must offer both full valuation protection and released value covering.

Before you move, make sure you know what your moving company’s limits are for things like silver or gold that are very valuable. Moving companies usually offer released value covering for free, but they can only be held responsible for sixty cents per pound per item.

Start Packing

Honestly, the earlier you start packing, the better off you’ll be when the time to move comes around. Being careful with your home’s list is the best way to begin.

In addition to helping you figure out what you want to move and what you might need to buy for your new home, this will give the movers and your insurance company easy access to the information.

First, you should deal with the things that are already put away: the boxes that hold your things. Check the boxes you have in your garage, basement, attic, or paid storage place to see what you still need or want. You might be able to get rid of or combine some of the things.

Organizing Your New Home

Your new home should have plenty of space for your paperwork and keys to the house. This is because many newly built homes come with built-in storage, planning desks, and places to charge your phone, tablet, and laptop.

“Family foyer” or “family entrance” is one of the best new ideas in home building in the last few years. This space is usually off the garage, but it could also have a separate side or back door. This area can usually be set up however you like.

You could have benches and replacement windows where you and your kids can sit while taking off your snow boots or muddy athletic shoes, a cubby where everyone in the family can hang their coat, backpack, or briefcase, and maybe even a tall closet big enough to hold a lacrosse stick, a hockey stick, or even skis.