Document Guide For Hartford Long-Distance Apartment Moves: Expert Tips

Nov 8, 2023

Managing paperwork is nobody’s idea of fun – but neither is losing crucial docs, and the latter is a hell of a lot worse. The moving experts at Movers.com offer all the resources you need to keep your papers neatly organized.

Moving house means moving docs - there's no escaping it.

And as with everything, being organized makes all the difference.

The experts at Movers.com have put together a full guide on “How to Organize Important Documents for Your Move” - and here's a brief rundown.

Docs? What Docs?

The most common types of documents that need to be organized and relocated during a move include:

moving documents (contracts, the bill of lading, inventory lists, written estimates and others),
financial documents (credit card bills, receipts, etc),
property-related documents (lease documents, insurance, vehicle registrations, and others), and
personal documents such as birth certificates, passports, and marriage certificates.

So now you know what documents you need to take with you.

The problem (or is it good news)? you don't have to take all that with you.

Important Documents Vs Non-Important Documents

To organize them efficiently, the guide recommends splitting them into important and non-important first.

This way you'll know what to focus on, and what you can just throw in a folder... or a trash bag. Really, you probably don't need the washing machine warranty that expired years ago!

The vital documents should be kept in a separate place, secured and easy to reach, and the not-vital-but-still-important bunch should be clearly labeled and categorized, and kept in secured, lockable containers.

Back. It. Up.

While the above will reduce the risk of losing or misplacing documents, creating backups is still crucial.

“This is one of the most important ways to maintain an organized and secure collection of documents, “ explains the guide. “Having a back-up, duplicate copy of your most important papers will help you out a lot if you ever misplace anything. If you can not make a copy of every, single document you have, copy at least the most vital documents. Digital records of important documents are also convenient, because they usually cannot be entirely destroyed by accident and are recoverable.”