DUWO Student housing
Tips when moving accommodation
- Make sure that your family, friends and acquaintances all know that you are moving accommodation. You should also inform all companies and authorities with which you are in contact, such as the doctor, the dentist and the Student Loans Company. The TPG moving service can help you to arrange all of this quickly and easily.
- What do you mean you can’t do your own removals?! Moving accommodation doesn’t have to be a nightmare – ask some friends to help, hire a delivery bike or a minibus, and save a bit of cash!
- Save old boxes and label them so that you can easily mark what is in each box.
- Don’t just throw away household effects you no longer need. Take them to a second-hand goods store; perhaps someone else can give your old things a second life!
- And if you’re in the second-hand goods store, maybe you’ll even find some nice bits and pieces for your new place!
- Make sure that you have sorted through your belongings thoroughly and packed everything you want to take with you before the day that you move. This saves a lot of hassle and irritation and your helpers will be more than grateful – there’s nothing worse than a last-minute rush. If everything is ready to go, you’ll be finished in no time.
- If you are moving to another municipality, make sure you register. You will then automatically be removed from the register in the municipality in which you used to live. Remember, you also need to inform the local authorities if you move within a municipality.
- Decide the layout of your new accommodation before you move in. Everything can then be placed in the right place at the beginning, saving you time and effort having to move it around later.
- If you get time: try to lay some decent flooring, white-wash the ceilings and put a lick of paint on the walls. This is a lot easier in an empty house than when all your furniture and other belongings are in the way.
- Introduce yourself to the neighbours. After all, better a good neighbour than a far away friend.