As soon as you have found a home for sale in Diamond Head, you can start making preparations. After you have received the PCS order, you should give the Transportation Officer a phone call. All the items should be covered with insurance. If the coverage provided by the Military Personnel and Civilian Employees Claims Act is insufficient, you should consider buying more insurance coverage. You should check with the homeowner insurance to see what damages are covered.

The homeowner insurance usually offers coverage for natural disasters. However, it won’t provide insurance coverage for all kinds moving damages. Besides, you should prepare an inventory for the high value items. High value items are items that worth more than $200. By creating a high value inventory, you can make sure that the items are listed with accurate descriptions. All kinds of items can be listed in the high value inventory list including chinaware, brand and etc. A copy of the high value inventory should be given to the transportation officer. You should also retain a copy of the high value inventory.

You should always document the possessions you own. One way to show that you own the items is to take photographs of them. You can use a video camera to create a video of each of the room in the house. The video should show the furniture, paintings, appliances and etc in the room. You can make a video to show that all the electric appliances are in working conditions. In case the electric appliance becomes damaged and cannot work properly, you can show the videotape to the claims officer and claim your compensation. You should make a video of the electrical appliances before packing them.

About 1 – 2 weeks before the moving day, you should identify the items that you don’t want to bring. You can group these items in a place where the workers won’t pack them. For example, you can store the items you don’t want to bring in a locked car. If the item is extremely valuable, you should keep them in a personal baggage and take with you. Some of the items you should keep in the personal baggage include financial records; photograph albums, wills and etc. You also need to identify the items you need to protect. You should separate these items so that they won’t get missing on the moving day. You can set them apart in a place so that you know when they are taken.