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Old 10-13-2023, 08:53 PM
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Delay your move by a week, stay at a local hotel, and get the stuff you absolutely need for your house. NOTE: VERY IMPORTANT!! Make sure your new house shows up on Google Maps, etc., or you may have a lot of trouble getting your stuff delivered. Make sure your cell phone number is on all delivery instructions and be prepared to provide directions to lost delivery drivers, been there done that. Next will be getting your furniture in your house and arranged. If you are not staying there, you can stop when you are tired, and go to the hotel, rest, and get back into it the next morning. We did an initial move (U-Haul) with enough furniture to 'live' in the house for a few days as we beat the furniture delivery. The washer and dryer were ordered up North, and they literally could not find the NEW zip code for delivery, even the associated store in the villages could not find the new zip code.
As noted above, get in the house, RELAX, then and only then start to look into modifications. While lots of people love solar tube lights, these do not work well on cloudy days or at night, unless you get the ones with auxiliary lights installed ($$$). We found it much more cost effective to just have an additional light installed in place of a solar tube light.
The only item we did before moving in and after closing was to coat the garage floor. It is a real pain to do this after the garage is filled (storage is very limited in these houses).
Hope this helps, and welcome to TV.
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