We’ve been planning some things to do with moving house. How the heck does anyone actually afford moving? We will be saving about £300 a month on rent I think, so that will help hugely of course. But I’m thinking the money we have saved (£1k plus mum said she is giving us £600 💕) won’t actually go that far, considering we will need a fridge freezer (current one has to stay here), beds for the Caglets and possibly a cot if we don’t have one by then, all clothes storage, curtains, rugs (all carpet is removed from council housing before new tenants, so depends how usable the wood underneath is)... plus there will be a rent overlap so an extra £900 spent there.
That said, the overlap will be helpful in that it gives us longer to move our stuff over. Given that we have to give a month’s notice we will have 1-2 months I suppose depending on when we are offered the new place. It would be good to use this to our advantage, get everything ready before we actually move. Wondering if we can actually avoid getting a removal van altogether - we don’t have much big furniture to take with us, will be getting any new furniture delivered to new house along with fridge. Maybe a man with a van (same we used to get rid of all that stuff recently) would suffice.
We did a bit of planning together this morning, trying to work out what order we would need to pay for stuff in, what takes priority etc. Furniture will be ikea and British heart foundation, does anyone have any tips on how to tell what second hand stuff is good quality?
It seems we are in the tenant deposit protection scheme but I’m not really sure what that means, is it a total guarantee we will get all of it back? A lot will need replacing when we move, but it’s fairly reasonable wear and tear for 10 years living here. We had a total nightmare with the landlords of our flat, who used a dodgy handyman for everything and stung us for the damage he did. We didn’t get a penny of our deposit back so much as these landlords are nicer (if we ignore the whole you don’t need heating thing 🙄) I’m reluctant to rely on getting any of that £1k or so back.