Apartment Exit Strategy

The apartments I live in sent me notification of the end-of-lease was coming up in March, offering to extend the lease another year, or going to month-to-month and the associated costs of each, also let me know that written notification would be needed if I was leaving at the end of the Lease.

Found this http://ohmyapt.apartmentratings.com/lease-termination.html at Apartment Ratings.com that, while I've written them before, just puts everything together you should need in writing the letter.  I spent some time and wrote up the letter, printed it up and signed it.  (Made a copy of course for my records.)  I will drop it off later today with my last rent check.  I also spent some time at the ratings website and gave them a positive review.

I also started getting responses back from some of my friends about helping me move.  Looks like its a go for that, so I took a look at Penske and U-Haul.  I've used both before, never having any real issues with both.  When I moved down from Delaware I paid for movers and completely filled their 16' truck, plus had like 3-4 car loads of stuff left over.  This time I'm looking for something in the 20's range.  Penske for the area only had 12', 16' and 26' trucks.  The 26' was actually cheaper at $59.95/day + .99 a mile.  I'm going to be moving about 70 miles.  U-Haul had a wider range of trucks, so I went with a 24' U-Haul for $39.95 plus 1.29/mile, basically both services are going to cost around the same, I went with the basic insurance, two trolley's a few blankets and I think I should have plenty of room without there being a lot of empty space for things to potentially shift around.

Pay last rent at apartments;
Type up lease termination letter;
Arrange moving truck;
Scheduled a week off in March from work.

Hurrah, more things crossed-off, means getting to sleep easier hopefully!