Thanks for the follow up.

We finally have a moving date, or at least week...probably we'll move on or around Memorial Day weekend. I haven't done anything yet due to the date being up in the air.

I will start leash training the cat, I think. He's a standard cat: he HATES HATES HATES leaving his house. If I take him into the stairwell (we're in a high rise) when someone comes to look at the house, he freaks out. When it's time to go back in, he sprints the 15 feet from the stairwell to the apartment door, tail between his legs. I worry that even a leash and walk outside of the house will be a bad experience.