When you’ve moved into a new place, unloaded all of your stuff from the truck and started to unpack, the last thing you feel like doing is cooking. I recommend you plan to have takeaway the night you move in. If you are going to do this, make sure you have a bit of cash in your wallet to save you the hassle of trying to hunt down an ATM [...]
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If you are using a removalist company, it is really important that you check for damage to your items as they bring them in. It is no use finding damage to your stuff a month after you have moved, as you have no way of proving that it was caused by the removalists.
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DAD’S TIP When you are filling out the condition report, make sure that you include absolutely everything that has a tiny bit of damage— chips in the kitchen bench, every broken tile, stains in the carpet, and even the state of the garden. Remember that when you move out of the place your landlord will assess its condition, and if there has been any damage at all the landlord will [...]
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If you haven’t done it the day before, the first thing you have to do is meet the landlord or agent to pick up the keys for your new place. I know of one person who moved all her stuff out of her old place, and was unable to get hold of the new landlord to get the key to her new place—so make sure this doesn’t happen to you.
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As kids, whenever we went on holidays anywhere, it was drilled into us to check under our beds, in drawers and closets before we checked out of a place. The same principle applies here. While your removalists or friends are packing your stuff into the truck, you need to constantly check that everything has been packed from each room.
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The type of truck he needed had to be driven by someone over 25, or else the amount he would have to pay for insurance would have gone up. The answers—get Dad to drive it up. So Toby organized for one of his mates and his dad to help him move. He bought some big strong boxes and packed up all the clothes, books and other stuff that he wanted [...]
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The three guys all came from different areas, so they each had to organize to move their stuff individually. They worked out that Toby would bring a set of couches from the rumpus room at his parents ‘house, a coffee table, and some plates and cups. As well as this, Toby had to furnish his bedroom.
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