Reply To: Bdikas Chometz: Hid 10 pieces of bread but found 11

laskern- “if you want to leave early less than 30 days before and you figure you will return before Pesach, you don’t have to wait but be bodek the night before you leave.. If you don’t want to return, you don’t have a responsibility to be bodek. ”

That is not perfectly accurate!

As a public service, I will cite the correct halacha on this.

http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=46447&st=&pgnum=148&hilite=

If one leaves his house and intends to return after pessach (FN 2 Shulchan Aruch HaRav adds that the same applies if he NEVER will return to this house)…if he leaves within 30 days of pessach (after purim) he is required to do bdikas chometz AT NIGHT without a brocha…

For those living in goy owned apts/houses:
http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=46447&st=&pgnum=156&hilite=

A Jew that lived in a goys house and moves out to live elsewhere, even within 30 days of pessach, he does not need to do bdika…ss. 2 this ONLY applies if the goy will enter the home before pessach, but if he won’t enter, the Jew is REQUIRED to do bdika and dispose of all chometz (but there are some that are meikil even if goy won’t enter before pessach and do not require bedika).