Selling the house may be a piece to this move, but we are here to assist with planning this project. Before we talk about putting your home on the market, we want to understand the full picture. Where are you going? How are you getting there? Are you buying another home? Do you need the equity from this one to make that purchase? Are you moving across the country, into a 55+ community, closer to your children or combining households with family?
Those answers matter because they can completely change how we approach the sale.
We Engineer the Sale Around Where You’re Going
If you need to sell this house in order to buy the next one, simply putting your home on the market and hoping the timing works isn’t much of a strategy.
We may need to structure the transaction so your sale is appropriately conditioned on your ability to complete your purchase. We may need to coordinate closing dates, negotiate additional possession time, work with two agents in two different markets, or explore financing options that give you more flexibility.
The specific strategy will depend on your circumstances and the contracts available in your market, but the objective is simple: we want to know how you’re getting from this house to the next one before we start setting everything in motion.
Nobody wants to successfully sell their house and then realize they don’t have anywhere to go.
We Build the Plan Before We Start Moving the Pieces
Once we understand the destination, we will work backward to reverse engineer the process.
What needs to happen before the house is listed? What needs to happen before you can buy? Which dates depend on one another? Who needs to be involved? What can we take off your plate?
Getting the full picture, putting a plan in place and assembling the right team allows everyone to execute with more clarity and less stress. That team may end up being larger than you expect.
You may be staring at 30 years of belongings wondering what you’re going to do with all of it. There may be repairs to make, furniture to move, closets to empty and things your children have been promising to pick up their childhood keepsakes since 1997.
Depending on your needs, your team might include professional organizers, senior move managers, estate-sale companies, contractors, handymen, cleaners, stagers, movers, lenders, reverse mortgage professionals and other specialists. You may need several of them. You may need only one.
We are here to give you and agent that has a list of professionals to call in the event you need them.
Everything Needs to Happen in the Right Order
Having good professionals isn’t enough. We need a plan.
We are not going to professionally clean the house before the contractor finishes making repairs. The photographer shouldn’t arrive before the staging is finished. The estate sale needs to happen at the right point. The movers need to know when you’ll have possession of your next home. And if you’re buying somewhere else, your agent there needs to understand what’s happening with the sale here.
A well-managed move has a sequence. Part of our job is helping everyone understand what needs to happen, what needs to happen first and what depends on something else happening before it.
Your Family Shouldn’t Have to Run the Project Either
Adult children often want to help, especially when they live in another city or state. But before long, someone is spending lunch breaks calling movers, researching estate-sale companies, checking on contractors and trying to figure out whether Mom signed the repair estimate.
Your family should be involved as much, or as little, as you want them to be. They shouldn’t automatically inherit the job of managing the entire move.
You Should Be Making Decisions, Not Chasing Details
There will always be decisions that belong to you. It’s your home, your money and your move, but you shouldn’t have to become the general contractor, moving coordinator, family referee and real estate expert just because you decided to sell your house.
We want the professionals involved to communicate with one another, work through as many details and complications as possible behind the scenes, and bring you the decisions that actually require your attention.
That’s the difference between having a collection of people helping you and having a team.
We understand where you’re going. We build the plan for getting there. We put the right people around you. Then we help execute the move with more clarity, fewer surprises and a lot less for you to manage.
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