A moving home checklist can help at a very stressful time when it’s easy to forget some of the necessary arrangements and organisation. This is especially likely to happen if you’re in the process of going through a complicated house sale. It’s difficult to think about the actual mechanics of moving when you’re still concentrating on securing a home to move to. Difficult or not, you do have to be prepared for your move. You can’t just leave everything until the last minute and expect it to fall into place. So what sort of things do you need to remember
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Cats are territorial animals so a house move can be a very traumatic event for them. You need to give a lot of thought to how you can reduce the level of stress as much as possible, during the move and after. Here are some tips to help when moving home with a cat. Some cats are by nature less easily stressed than others so you will probably have an idea as to how much the move will cause problems for the feline in your family. That being said any cat needs special attention when a house move is taking
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  You’re moving and there is a distinct lack of boxes in which to safely transport your belongings.  This is a familiar problem for a lot of people.  Gone are the days when a lot of us kept a store of old boxes for any occasion.  A disposable society, and a need to maximise living space, mean that the practice has become much less regular. So what should you do if you are searching for boxes for your home move? You may think “that’s easy”, you can just buy them online.  Put “house moving boxes” into a search engine and
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  Tips For Getting A Mortgage With Bad Credit   With the global financial crisis over recent years, has come an increase in the number of people who have less than stellar credit.  If you have missed payments on credit cards or loans, or you have payment agreements or IVAs in place, you will struggle to get a traditional mortgage. To understand your mortgage situation you need to recognise what the current financial lending climate is.  In contrast to the situation pre-2007 lenders are now extremely reluctant to provide a facility to people who don’t have a great credit rating.
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Our 50th Checkatrade Review!   A wealth of coverage in the Press about housing bubbles, house price increases, the government’s right to buy scheme, housing benefit changes and first time buyers desperate to get a foot on the ladder shows that moving home is high on the nation’s collective subconscious. Moving home is a bit like childbirth – incredibly painful whilst you’re going through it but give it some time and months later you’re often thinking about doing it again.   In a life-time it’s also not something most people do that often. When it comes to moving home the last
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Moving Horror Stories   Thankfully this horror story was way before the move which LOVE Removals carried out and happened in South Africa, not the UK. However, this is the worst moving story we’ve heard so far. A young, married South African couple had their first daughter and reluctantly decided, because of the unrest, that whilst it might be okay for them as a couple, now they had a child they wanted a safer life for her than that offered in South Africa. With heavy hearts they decided to leave everything they knew in South Africa, their relatives and friends
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