Time to start organising things

After work we met with the solicitor who is handling our sale and also our purchase, everything seems to be in order and we are aiming for a simultaneous settlement in mid March, most likely the week we return from our holiday on the Gold Coast. We are just waiting now for the contracts to exchange so we can lock in a definite date and start booking in everything that we'll need.
We've decided that we'll use professional movers to move everything as we don't have any family living nearby and my wife's back wouldn't be up to helping me to carry out all our furniture. We'll probably have to start boxing things up before we go away and then when we get back finish off what is left. We also need to arrange for the power and water to be connected as well as the phone and internet. We'll probably move our pay TV over as well so there is a little bit of co-ordination required to make it all happen. We're hoping that we can get access to the new place a couple of days prior to settlement to allow us to move in. I'd already planned to take a couple of extra days off after returning from the Gold Coast, but at the time I had no idea that they would be used to pack the house and get things ready for moving. My wife and kids will be at work and school the week we move so I'm guessing that I'll be doing most of the work and co-ordinating of all the different people who will need to go to each house.
We have a building and pest inspection at our house tomorrow that the new owners have organised, it means that I'll be a little late to work so I'll probably have to work back a little to make up for it. We're not sure if we're going to bother to get one done on the place we are purchasing as it is a new build and they reports are known to be basically useless, the one we got done when we purchased our current home had all sorts of mistakes in it. I think they even stated that the garage was made from brick when it is clearly galvanised iron. They also stated that the alarm system and electric garage door appeared to be in good order and functioning correctly. We asked the previous owners about it as things didn't seem quite right and as it turned out the alarm systems battery had been disconnected as it went flat years ago and the remote for the garage door hadn't work in years as well.

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I'm still surprised that I can write each night.