Lately Puerto Rico has really been in our mind. We are MORE THAN READY to move mentally/emotionally. So we have been thinking about getting ready to move physically. We wrote up all the things we will need to do in the next few months so that we can just up and move there. A lot of this is a general checklist for moving pretty much anywhere, but some of it is specific to moving to Rincon Puerto Rico.  After living somewhere for so long (Greeley) there are things we just don’t think about much.  We have lived here in our first home for 10 years.  Things like car titles, using up old stuff, medical and school transcripts/records , making sure we have Social Security cards, etc.  Also we don’t really have an “address” to ship stuff to, so that will be something to figure out.

For those of you who have already made the move to Puerto Rico (or elsewhere), are there any other things we should think about/take care of before we ship out?

• Banks (change over address and ensure future bank cards are delivered to us)
• Open new Bank Account inPuerto Rico
• Cars (get titles together, sell)
• Buy new car inPuerto Rico
• Go thru all Stuff/Junk (to friends/family, charity, sell or toss). *Question: How much should we take with or replace?
• Find new homes for the chickens
• Get Kitty’s vet records and learn what it will take to bring him with us on the airplane
• Get house cleaned professionally (carpet, bathrooms, kitchen, etc)
• Put remaining properties under managment(2)
• Host a going away party!
• Put together all personal / professional records
• Call insurance agents to cancel car insurance and change home policies to rental and update address
• Sell assets we can’t manage from afar
• Use up old stuff and don’t buy new stuff (Frozen food, cleaners, canned food, bathroom supplies, etc)
• Look for boxes and pack up / label and have family ship to us when we get there
• Buy airline tickets and line up rental car for appx 1 month while we look for a new car
• Find new homes for our plants (coffee, banana, orchids)
• Get tax documents together for 2012 filing
• Update address with property tax assessor, 401k, IRA, etc
• Setup things we need down there (we already have water and electric.  Mayyyybe internet?  Cell phone? )
• Find new server / hosting for website and promote

We have been thinking about this a lot more lately as it appears we will be moving our date up.  We don’t have an exact new deadline but we figure we can take care of a lot of these things now in preparation.  Stay tuned for posts on many of the items in the above list!