Moving Home from Rented Property – Your Obligations

When you move home, if you are renting the property you are vacating then your obligations to third parties are considerably different to those of an owner-occupier.

The specifics of what you will need to do may vary depending upon the country you live in and its individual laws and regulations. Even so, many of the following will typically be required and this may serve as a useful checklist.   

1. You will be obliged to provide your landlord or their agents with a notice covering your intention to terminate your rental agreement and that notice will need to be a minimum period of time before you depart. That notice period will usually be documented in your existing rental documentation.


2. You will need to notify all of the utility providers concerned that you will no longer be responsible for things such as water, gas, electric and telephone charges from the specified date and time and that you will be vacating the property.


3. Your rental contract probably obliges you to leave the property and its surroundings in the same condition you found them. What that means is you will either need to thoroughly clean the property once all of your furniture and possessions are out of it or pay someone to do that for you.  Many professional furniture removals companies will be able to offer such cleaning services.


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A Few Words about Postal Shipping

Strictly speaking, this isn’t our domain but it seemed appropriate to say a few words on the subject.

That’s because we sometimes hear of cases where this has ‘gone wrong’ for a client.

What can sometimes happen is that someone has an object that they’ve left with someone else (a family member perhaps) while they move home. Once in place, they ask for the object to be posted to them via recorded and insured postal services.

So far so good but if it arrives damaged, whether due to poor packing or perhaps more commonly poor postal handling, what can you do about it?

In our experience, there is frequent widespread confusion about just what “insured mail” really means.  Typically, the insurance you pay for ONLY covers you against either the total loss of your package in the mail OR it’s total destruction.

The former of these two is easy to prove. If your parcel has been lost or stolen then it’s gone and the insurance should pay up without question. Read more about postal shipping....... http://www.christchurchremovals.co.nz/a-few-words-about-postal-shipping/