How to Enjoy a Vacation Before a House Move

As many people on the property ladder will be all too aware, the process of selling your home, and moving into a new one, is fraught with delays and timing issues. It can be challenging to arrange your legal documents with two sets of families – one who will be moving into your old property, and one whose property will soon be yours. Due to these many delays, some house moves are slightly skewed, as you have to vacate your home before moving to your new property. In this article, you’ll learn how to combine your period of transition with a vacation with your family, enjoying the brief freedom of living without a home.

Getting Packed

If you’re simultaneously moving home and getting packed for a vacation with your family, it’s important that you pack for the vacation before you pack all of your other clothes and accessories into boxes and bags to be taken to your new abode. Once you’re happily packed for your vacation, and your suitcases are loaded into your car, you can concentrate on getting the rest of your belongings boxed up, ready for the removal experts to collect.

Storing Your Things

While you’re going to be away on vacation, you’re going to need a place to store your things before your new property becomes available. You can only do this in a facility that offers storage units that can secure your belongings in a safe and sterile environment. Find a local facility to check your belongings into and organize for your removal company to take your belongings there, load them into the facility, and prepare to return to pick them all up when your new property becomes available – whether that’s in a week, or a month.

Enjoy the Vacation

Now that your move is organized, it’s time to get you and your family away for the vacation that will cut through all the stress of your house move, leaving you feeling peaceful in tranquil surroundings. Your family will be able to relax, play, laugh, and celebrate a new chapter, and you’ll all have that low-level excitement in your chests that, on your return to your hometown, you’ll be moving into a new place. Make the most of your vacation, and this period in which you’re not paying rent or mortgage payments, to treat your family to some fun, and create life-long memories as you do so.

The Final Switch

With a new family already moved into your old home and your new home finally available, all you need to do is finalize the switch by bringing your belongings into your new property and unpacking them. You also need to fix those small details – like bill payments, postal arrangements, and change-of-address forms – before you can say that your move is truly completed. But if you’re sharp, this can be done within a week, leaving your freshly holidayed, and freshly moved in, all at once.

There you have it – a simple guide to getting yourself out on vacation in the midst of a stressful house move.