Didn't move - notice of change of address (Monroe: renter, insurance)

[petch751]

Our house # has been the same since the house was built in 1999. When we bought the house in 2010 naturally this is the same house number we . We received a letter that the our address number is being changed because they have the houses on our road out of order. The letter states we have to change our address. This means we have to change..., bills, house, auto and health care insurances, drivers licence, auto registration, passports, 401k, IRA,

The deed to our house has the old house number on it. How would I go about changing the address number on the house deed?

[Wells5]

Who sent the letter? If it's a legitimate notification, then the office that sent the letter should be contacted.

[wharton]

It's typically totally legitimate, and done for a very good reason. I was a resident of both Monroe and Carbon counties, when the readdressing was mandated there. The largest issue is safety and emergency response. If you have multiple streets and roads with the same names, and confusing numbering on properties, it is extremely difficult to quickly respond to a fire, ambulance call, or call for police services, and very easy to end up ten miles away, at the wrong house, as somebody is having a heart attack. In my case, I lived on a "High point Drive" in one township, and was a few miles away from another High Point Drive in another township. During a fire call, there was some response to the wrong street, but no big deal. In another case, in Carbon county, a vacation renter called a house fire in as being on "Oak Lane", the dispatcher asked if they were located in a particular community, and the caller said yes. The fire companies dispatched to the wrong community, and the house was a total loss, since there was a 15-20 minute delay. After the changes, there are no longer multiple roads in a county with the same name, and roads that only had a state highway number in the past, have new actual names for the first time. House addresses were also a mess, and changed based on a logical grid of measurements and compass directions that allows a responder to get to a particular spot without much thought at all. this compares to a lazy move by the post office, when first addressing my old neighborhood, where they just took the numbers off the lot numbers on the development plans. This resulted in bizarre addresses, when you could be house #33 directly across from house #71, on the same road. As for the address on you deed, it's of no concern. You deed description provides a description of your surveyed property, with precise details, and is indexed to a county property # as an additional "address". If the post office description changed from #4 Main street, to # 51 Main street, it doesn't impact your deed. In the event of a sale, you may see a revised deed noting the property as 51 Main street, formally known as 4 main street. No big deal.