When the house is being emptied by movers, beg, borrow or rent a video camera and get close up pictures of all/each of your furniture, plus close ups of all the movers. Then get pictures of all the insides with someone standing in the middle of the room with today's paper showing the date, and walk around him taking pictures of all parts of the rooms in the house. This will prove that you left it in good condition, even if someone gets in later and damages it.
The pictures of your stuff will prove you had what is on the list..one woman told me she moved with her kids' 3 very expensive bikes, but wound up with 2 of them and a battered old one. The waybill said 3 bikes and 3 bikes were what she got.
And the pictures will prove the condition of your furniture in case of damage.
When you get to the new house, instantly put in new locks on every door there, because you have no idea of how many spare keys have been spread around the neighborhood by kids or friendly neighbors who came in to feed the previous tenets' cats. And do check the windows after the movers leave, to make sure they are all locked.
In rest stops leave one person in your car at all times, a family member said he arrested a gang that went up and down the highway, getting into parked cars at rest stops. It is very easy to open locked cars...doesn't take long at all.
Good luck in your moving.
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