Is it appropriate to ask to delay my start date by a week to give more time to relocation? Off-cycle First Year Analyst

What's up,

I received an offer today which has a start date of December 5th. I am moving a few hours to NYC and need to relocate and find somewhere to sublet, and was thinking of asking HR to push back my start date by a week to December 12th. Would this be appropriate? I'm off-cycle so I wouldn't be training with a ton of other analysts, but still don't want to get off on the wrong foot. Still, another week to figure out apartments would be really helpful.

What do you guys think?

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