Before Moving Boston MA

How can you use your time most productively before the moving van arrives?

Local Companies

CASCAP
(617)4925559
678 Massachusetts Avenue 10th Floor
Cambridge, MA

Your Home for Life
(800)6906646
642 Huron Avenue
Cambridge, MA

Pioneer Financial Group
(617)8686300
1972 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA

American Mortgage Resource, Inc.
(617)9728588
62 Mount Auburn Street
Watertown, MA

Leader Mortgage Company, Inc.
(781)6487900
180 Massachusetts Avenue
Arlington, MA

New FED Mortgage Corp
781-241-1225
1711 Broadway
Saugus, MA

Coast To Coast Mortgage, Inc.
888-282-6700
12 Alfred Street Suite 320
Woburn, MA

JPMorgan Chase - Home Mortgage
(617) 429-2059
400 Blue Hill Drive, Ste. 190
Westwood, MA

D&H FINANCIAL SERVICES
781 961 4496
PO BOX 224
RANDOLPH, MA

How can you use your time most productively before the moving van arrives?

Bringing closure to your personal matters and relationships in your old community will help enable you to move forward, permitting you to create attachments in your new home neighborhood. Let’s consider some things to look into.

Finding and interviewing new doctors may be one of your first tasks. Transferring prescriptions and medical records can follow, since you may need them quickly after your move

Opening new bank accounts will enable you to get up and running quickly in your new locale

Returning borrowed items will lend peace of mind

Looking into transferring insurance, memberships, and school records

Using up everything you can in your refrigerator and freezer so that you don’t have to box it up and watch it melt during the move.

Calling your new utility companies and begin setting up new services. Your Realtor or new home salesperson can furnish a list for you.

Preparing yourself for a supplemental tax bill by calling the area’s county tax office (the property will get reassessed after you take possession)

Purchasing items you may need for the new home like shelf liner, entry mats, and plastic storage boxes, drawer, closet organizers and garage shelving

Shopping movers --ask about their policy on breakage

Pre-packing items not used to stage the home and not essential to your every day existence

Preparing a few suitcases as if you’re going to stay in a hotel for family member to use for a few nights.

Starting to assemble packing materials. Gather carry-capable boxes and count up how many specialized boxes for pictures, dishes hanging clothes and other specialized items you may need.

Getting several rolls of packing tape (and one-handed applicators), permanent markers, moving pads and furniture protectors. Begin hoarding newspapers to pack fragile items --but don’t wrap anything in newsprint that you can’t eventually wash. To cushion un-washable items, purchase packing paper that has no print.

Moving companies may not risk liability by transporting your plants. If they do, ask how they will be protected from extreme temperatures on a long move. And if you’re moving from outside the state or outside U.S. borders, check into the legality of transporting them at all.

Taking the time to defrost your refrigerator right before your move, since water damage to other items in the van can occur during the move.

Finding room for valuables for transport in your personal vehicles – this includes jewelry, manageably sized musical instruments and extremely valuable small antiques and art objects.

If you have small children, making arrangements with neighbors to corral them for moving day so that you can focus on the move and they stay out of harm’s way

Your mover may be prohibited from transporting firearms or flammable liquids, so ask for a list of items they can’t help you with.

When labeling boxes, list what it contains, if it’s fragile, what direction it should be facing (up or down) and which room it will occupy

Dena Kouremetis is a veteran freelance real estate consumer journalist and California real estate broker. She may be reached by email at REritr@aol.com.

Featured Local Company

CASCAP

(617)4925559
678 Massachusetts Avenue 10th Floor
Cambridge, MA

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