Two week gap between residences

bloke.in.a.fix

I'm selling my house and moving into a rental property. The sale is due to complete mid-April, but the place I'm planning to rent isn't available until the beginning of May. During the intervening two weeks I'm planning to put most of my stuff in storage and couch surf with friends and family.

My question is, what to do about my "official" residential address? I'm worried that having no fixed address may hurt my credit rating. Also I'm not sure what to do about redirecting post. I'm sure others have been in a similar situation, so any advice would be appreciated.

Marvel1

Have you exchanged yet? If not can you move the completion date closer to the date you moving to the rented place?

jimbo772

Royal Mail Post Restante (google it) will arrange for your mail to be held at a post office of your choosing.

Credit rating: they aren't that precise. When you move to your new place just say that you lived there two weeks earlier, or your old place two weeks later. They get your address details from the electoral roll which is updated yearly I think. Or from you when you tell them you've moved.

James.

bloke.in.a.fix

Thanks. Never heard of Poste Restante before. Looks useful, but can I get my post automatically redirected to this, using the Post Office redirection service?

G_M

bloke.in.a.fix wrote: »

I'm selling my house and moving into a rental property. The sale is due to complete mid-April,
Have you Exchanged Contracts yet?If not, this date is meaningless. Either you, or the buyer, or their lender, can (probably will) change it.

but the place I'm planning to rent isn't available until the beginning of May.
Then unless you've Exchanged Contracts already, change the Completion date to endof April!

During the intervening two weeks I'm planning to put most of my stuff in storage and couch surf with friends and family.
That's another way to go if you want
My question is, what to do about my "official" residential address?

I'm worried that having no fixed address may hurt my credit rating.
Providing you've Exchange it should not matter for 2 weeks.
Also I'm not sure what to do about redirecting post. I'm sure others have been in a similar situation, so any advice would be appreciated.

Collect from local post office.

Or get very friendly with your new landlord and/or the current tenants and use that address. They can keep your mail for 2 weeks.......... if you trust them.

martindow

Can I have some milk for my tea as well please G_M? Are the cakes both mine?

custardy

bloke.in.a.fix wrote: »

Thanks. Never heard of Poste Restante before. Looks useful, but can I get my post automatically redirected to this, using the Post Office redirection service?

Theres no such thing as a post office redirection service.
Its Royal mail.
No mail cannot be redirected from there unless you actually lived in the post office.

https://www.royalmail.com/sites/default/files/royal-mail-mail-collect-application-form-May-2018.pdf

Free for now

G_M

martindow wrote: »

Can I have some milk for my tea as well please G_M? Are the cakes both mine?

As you can see, there'sonly one cup - so yes, 1 cup, 2 cakes!


Milk? In Gunpowder tea?

martindow

G_M wrote: »

As you can see, there'sonly one cup - so yes, 1 cup, 2 cakes!


Milk? In Gunpowder tea?

Thanks for the warning G_M - does gunpowder tea detonate in contact with milk?


Apologies are in order I think - it is very impolite to question (gift horse) tea and cake.

G_M

https://www.twinings.co.uk/tea/loose-tea/finest-gunpowder-green

bloke.in.a.fix

custardy wrote: »

No mail cannot be redirected from there unless you actually lived in the post office.

I want to redirect my mail *to* the post office, from my old address.

custardy wrote: »

...royal-mail-mail-collect-application-form-May-2018.pdf

Mail Collect won't work for me, because I won't have an address. Poste Restante looks like it would do the job, as long as it's something I can redirect to.