Moving In

06 January 2019 | Posted in: Home Buyers

So you have moved in to your new home. Congratulations!
What should you do now?

Heres a few tips that have been given to me by recent movers:

Change the locks or codes. You will have been given keys to your new home on takeover day but do you know who else has a key? It is good practice to change all the locks, don’t forget the garage and back door too. Also burglar alarm codes should be changed regularly.
Meet the neighbours and check what day rubbish pickup is, find out about any regular deliveries.
Have you changed the address for all your bills, subscriptions, magazines, TradeMe, banks etc. Even though we had a mortgage with our bank they still sent our statements to the old address!
Find out where your water toby is. Everyone who lives at your address should know how to shut off the water and power in an emergency.
Smoke Alarms should be working, now is a good time to change the batteries as you won’t know how old they are.
Check and clean or replace the filters in your rangehood and air conditioning.