Thought this might be the best place to ask this question. We are in the process of selling our house in Colorado with the goal of moving to Arizona. There may be a several month lag between selling our house and closing on a new home in Arizona. We just thought we would take the opportunity to see some new places if the lag is more than a few weeks.Technically we would be homeless. We would maintain a PO Box in Colorado until closing on AZ home. Just wonder how this would effect our DLs and insurance. Don't want to go with the South Dakota residency unless that was absolutely necessary.Sure that someone here has been through this.

Tell everyone you're at the same address in CO.Put in a change of address to have your mail forwarded to either the PO Box or better yet, a mail forwarding service. Don't tell anyone you're moving until you've already taken ownership of the new place.

You will be traveling to pick out a place - nothing says you have to do it immediately. Lots of people are in transition at anyone time. Take your time to explore your options.

Once you sell you will have a lot less mail to worry about. By having our mail forwarded to a relative, we went 6 months without a permanent address with no problem. After we sold the house our mail volume went to almost zero. As for Drivers License and insurance we did not change those until we closed on our new place.

If I were you, I would maintain my Colorado residency status until you close on the property in AZ. The reason I would do this is because sometimes things change and while you may PLAN on moving to Arizona, you may change your mind or life may bring you something unforeseen in the meantime. I would forward my mail from my old home address to the PO box you mentioned in Colorado.

Thanks for the advice. Sounds like a lot of other situations. Don't ask, don't tell.

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Thunder_Mountai
Explorer II
Feb 25, 2019
Thanks for the advice. Sounds like a lot of other situations. Don't ask, don't tell.
2chiefsRus
Explorer
Feb 25, 2019
If I were you, I would maintain my Colorado residency status until you close on the property in AZ. The reason I would do this is because sometimes things change and while you may PLAN on moving to Arizona, you may change your mind or life may bring you something unforeseen in the meantime. I would forward my mail from my old home address to the PO box you mentioned in Colorado.
NMDriver2
Explorer
Feb 25, 2019
Once you sell you will have a lot less mail to worry about. By having our mail forwarded to a relative, we went 6 months without a permanent address with no problem. After we sold the house our mail volume went to almost zero. As for Drivers License and insurance we did not change those until we closed on our new place.
BarbaraOK
Explorer
Feb 25, 2019
You will be traveling to pick out a place - nothing says you have to do it immediately. Lots of people are in transition at anyone time. Take your time to explore your options.
HadEnough
Explorer
Feb 25, 2019
Tell everyone you're at the same address in CO.

Put in a change of address to have your mail forwarded to either the PO Box or better yet, a mail forwarding service.

Don't tell anyone you're moving until you've already taken ownership of the new place.

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