#Moving Tips

Photograph the meter readings, map the fuses, test the smoke alarms, quiet hours from 10 pm: the first 24 hours in your first flat of your own.

If your provider offers no internet at your new home, you can cancel with one month's notice under § 60 TKG. How to move your home office without any downtime.

A room number on every box, a plan on every door, mark the “First” boxes: this is how the moving team unloads correctly even when commuters briefly have to go to work.

One room out, the rest stays: how a partial move from a shared flat works with a part load, small vehicle or storage, without disrupting the flatmates' daily life.

Pack two evenings a week, move on a Friday or Saturday, check special leave in your employment or collective agreement: how working singles manage the move.

Remove rug edges, run cables along the wall, a night light to the bathroom, tip-proof wardrobes: how seniors set up a new flat. Tenants may request grab rails (§ 554 BGB).

A deposit of at most three months' rent, repayment after a reasonable checking period, a report with photos: how to hand over your room so the money comes back.

Confirm the date, check no-parking signs (72 hrs ahead), defrost the fridge, note meter readings, pack the children's bags: the last week before the move.

Many houseplants come from the tropics and suffer even above freezing. How to pack them for a winter move, transport them warm and help them settle at the new window.

Parking restriction signs 72 hrs ahead, heavy furniture loaded first, ID and keys not in a box, meter readings on moving in: how your first moving day runs.

Notice by the third working day to the end of the month after next: how to plan the date, helpers, leave and no-parking zone in summer, working back from move-out day.

Rarely used items four weeks ahead, books in small boxes, kitchen last, first-night box the evening before: a packing plan for working people, spread over short evenings.