While planning your move, don’t forget to include your pets.  Moving can be stressful and even dangerous for pets if their interests are not taken into consideration.

Planning
- If you are moving for company relocation or a new job, find out what pet moving costs the company is willing to cover.

- Check vaccination records to ensure your pet’s immunizations are up to date.  Obtain veterinary records and keep them with you on moving day. Have any required vaccinations done and prescriptions refilled, so you don’t have to worry about it upon arrival at your new home.

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Determine What You Want

Create a prioritised list of the features you want to find in your new home and the reasons why.  While making the list consider how long you will likely be in the house and how your family and lifestyle may change over time.  Use this list as a search guide and tool to help filter through the available properties and focus on homes that meet your lifestyle and requirements.  Remember that you may need to make some compromises based on location and financing limitations.

Checklist Items;

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Two months before moving day

- Get estimates if you will be using a moving company
- Get prices from at least two truck rental companies, if you will move yourself.
- Start removing clutter from the garage and storage areas.
- Select a moving or truck rental company.
- Create a floor plan of your new home for furniture and appliance placement.
- Start a file for your moving paperwork and receipts.
- Arrange to transfer school records, if necessary.

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Whether you’re selling or purchasing a home, you want to ensure that the home in question is in good condition.  ASHI (American Society of Home Inspectors) recently completed a survey and found the following to be the most common problems in homes today.

- Improper surface grading and drainage

Improper surface grading and drainage can be responsible for household disorders such as leaking and crawl spaces.  The grading and drainage problems can be fixed either by regrading the ground away from the house or replacing gutters and down spouts.

- Improper Electrical Wiring

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Before going out to search for your dream home, it is important to know what that dream home looks like. Making a prioritised list of what you want in your next home will help narrow down your search.The size of the house depends, not only on your immediate needs, but also what may be needed in the future. For example, a young couple would need to think about possibilities of more children in the future, while a family with teenagers may address the fact that those teens may soon be off at college soon. You needs for additional rooms as studies, or guest rooms should be addressed also. Other desired features in the house should be considered also. For instance, if you are like gardening, a house with a big garden would be wanted.

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Use all your resources to research for homes. Online websites, estate agents, newspapers and mailers can tell you which homes are available in your desired area. Choose to visit houses that possess your desired qualities, as well as fits in your price range. Visiting houses can be done through a buyer’s agent as well as visiting open houses on your own. Have the inside track on houses just placed on the market by registering for online property matching so get updates.When looking at houses it is important to take notes and pictures so you can remember later which houses you looked at. Writing down your immediate feelings about the house is very helpful also. Start from the outside and check out the garden and exterior paint jobs. When inside notice the interior paint jobs, windows and tiles. Be sure to note any changes or renovations will have to made later. Imagine yourself in living in the house, and mentally place your furniture in the rooms, your pictures on the walls.

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After you have found your desired home, it is time to make your offer to the owners.

 Many buyers aren’t sure if what they are offering is appropriate. A good strategy is to look for a list of comps, which are home that have sold recently or are on sale that are similar to the house you are interested in. You can use this list to get a good idea of what the house you are interested in should be sold for.

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Not good news to

London’s first time buyers. An average house in

London now cost over £322 204.

This brings the average annual growth in

London house prices to 11.7 per cent
To homeowners it may be good news that their houses are worth much more now.The market is slowing as previous increases take their toll. Higher interest rates and elevated house prices may be starting to increasingly weigh down on potential house buyers. Cash-rich buyers after premium properties in the capital are fuelling a mini-boom in London average house prices, widening the gap between the city and the rest of

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