According to reports, the Bushes will move out on January 20th and on that same day the Obama’s will move into the White House. It all happens within a few hours. Trucks will carry away the Bushes personal things and moving trucks will bring in, the Obama’s things (including Michelle Obama’s mother’s things…. She’s moving in too!). This is a comment from “Ask the White House”…
” In many ways very much like any family’s move, except it all happens in a few hours. The Bush and Obama families will both be ready for the move on the morning of January 20, 2009, and the moving trucks will be ready and waiting. On that day, the incoming First Family will arrive at the White House to greet the current First Family; then they travel to the Capitol for the Inauguration festivities. While they’re at the Capitol, President and Mrs. Bush’s personal items will be moved out of the Private Residence, and President-elect and Mrs. Obama’s boxes will be brought in. When the Obama family returns from the Capitol to their new home, they’ll be welcomed by a gracious and lovely staff at the White House, who have already unpacked their boxes.
Making all of this happen smoothly requires a lot of planning by the superb career staff here at the White House, the staff who stay from Administration to Administration, and by the current and next First Families. “