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The Moving Survival Guide: All You Need to Know to Make Your Move Go Smoothly
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Product Description
Moving can be a highly emotional and overwhelming time, filled with excitement and panic. The Moving Survival Guide walks you through the many details, to help you make informed decisions and keep you organized and motivated before, during, and after your move.
The clear, sympathetic text is full of practical advice and tried-and-true tips, as well as a planning calendar, detailed checklists, and worksheets to help budget your time, your energy, and your money. These records will not only help keep you organized, but will prove invaluable when it comes time to prepare your income tax return.
From choosing a realtor to transferring medical records, this comprehensive guide will lead you through all aspects of the moving process, making sure you don't forget a single important task in this busy and exciting time.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #203862 in Books
- Published on: 2004-11-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 192 pages
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From the Back Cover
The Moving Survival Guide will help you make informed decisions and keep your family organized and motivated before, during, and after your move. Part how-to book, part workbook, this friendly guide leads you through the daunting tasks of selling, packing, and relocating your household. Within these pages author Martha Poage—who has successfully moved her family nine times in eleven years—offers practical advice and tried-and-true tips, including:
Extensive planning calendars
Detailed to-do lists
Helpful worksheets
Easy recordkeeping guidelines that will be invaluable at tax time
Ideas to involve the whole family
Proven advice to keep you focused, informed, and energized for your move
The Moving Survival Guide will ensure you don’t forget a single important task during this busy and exciting time.
About the Author
Author Martha Poage has become an expert at relocation by moving her family seven times in eight years; from one end of the country to the other, across town and across the street. She currently resides in Scottsdale, Arizona, but is always prepared for the next move.
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BOX OF ITEMS FOR THE NEW OWNERS
If you own your home, remember to leave a box of apporpriate items for the new owners. This box should contain product warranty instruction manuals and a list of service providers with their names and phone numbers that pertain to your home or neighborhood. Mark this box as follows -- "TO THE NEW OWNERS -- DO NOT LOAD ON TRUCK."
Stove (Cook Top) Manual
Oven Manual
Microwave Manual
Dishwasher Manual
Refrigerator Manual
Garbage Disposal Manual
Water Softener Manual
Hot Water Heater Manual
Furnace Manual
Humidifier Manual
Swamp Cooler Manual
Central Vacuum System Manual
Gas Fireplace Manual
Thermostat Manual
Security System Manual
Sprinkler System MAnual
Garage Door Opener(s)
Jacuzzi Manual
Pool/Hot Tub Manual
Fountain Manual
Homeowner's Manual
Local Telephone Books
Neighborhood Telephone Directory
Local Maps
House Blueprints/Floor Plans
Lawn Service Provider
Builder's Name and Phone Number
Pool Service Provider
Snow Removal Service Provider
Customer Reviews
If you're an organizational nut and love lists this book is for you!
I'm planning a move across the country due to a corporate relocation, and was looking for a resource to help me plan and execute the move with minimal problems. This book did the trick for me.
It's organized into chapters dealing with emotional issues, preparing for the move, selling and buying a house, packing, and starting a new life at you new location.
The author also gives you blank calendars to keep track of dates, a moving timeline, and tons of worksheets that made a list maker like myself very happy, along with blank pages for taking notes. The moving checklists cover everything from changing addresses to moving medical records. The worksheets help you to keep track of moving expenses and phone numbers or contact info from cellular, utility, and insurance companies, schools, doctors, and other service providers.
The book only touches upon the emotional issues, so if you are moving with kids (as I was) I would recommend buying a separate book if you're looking for more information on that issue.
Helpful and thorough
This book is very thorough, though geared towards those who are selling/buying property more so than renters. Also, there's a lot of info about moving kids (which I skipped because I'm childless by choice). But I found the author to be soothing, it's clear she's been through this many times. She's super-fastidious but that's an asset for someone who's stressed about an upcoming move.
Good book for those who have a deep love of lists and organization! -[...]
I used this book when planning my move and found it to be very helpful. I was movig across country and had lots of valuable items that needed to be kept track of and properlu insurec. After a previously bad moving experience I wanted to make sure that i got everything right this time around. This book was a huge help, I especially liked all of the lists and organizational aids that were included in it.
