hoops902
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Post by hoops902 on May 12, 2020 11:07:24 GMT -5
Is your new house in the same town? Have you considered moving some of your belongings to the new house and leaving some behind to stage the old one? Move all the toys or other clutter and the bare necessities to camp out in the new house. This would work best if you think the house will sell quickly. We did this and it worked out well for us but we didn’t have kids yet and were able to move all our necessities for phase 1 of moving without hiring movers. We took our mattress and put an air mattress on the bed at the house for sale. We took a lot of clothes out of the closets and a lot of the dishes and cookware. I would think you could probably empty the kids‘ rooms entirely and it wouldn’t matter much. Desirable new listings are still selling within about a week in my area. Yes, my current house is the last house as you head out of town on a road, and the new house is the 3rd house once you get out of town. I can see the new house from the current house. At minimum, we'd definitely move SOME things...our current house is cramped and cluttered in a way that works for us but wouldn't show well (for example, we have a big dining room table, and the only place for a hutch blocks the path to sit on the other side of the table...but there's plenty of space for my kids to get through and that's where they sit. Ultimately, it probably doesn't matter much. If you want to live in our town, and you don't want to live in a home built in the 50's...I'll probably have the only listing that was built in the last 50-70 years. That's really my thought with moving out first...I can live with not having it "staged" and nice...but it can't look like it's tiny because it's crammed with our big oversized furniture. The plan is PROBABLY to move out the stuff that makes the house look cramped. List it while we live here for a week or two, then move stuff the next week and be out. That'll let us get a lot of the junk out of here, live like we're in a magazine for 2 weeks and keeping everything clean...and then get on with moving.
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tractor
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Post by tractor on May 13, 2020 11:06:31 GMT -5
I’m meeting a realtor in less than an hour to list my extra house. It’s a nice house I bought about six years ago, located next door. I haven’t done anything with it, and it’s been vacant for @ 20 years.
Anyway, it’s the perfect house for a flipper, or someone looking for a nice place in the country. When I say, “next door”, it’s a 1/4 mile away, so there’s really no neighbors. Very few homes come on the market in my neighborhood, and when they do, they sell very fast.
I had big plans for it, but I know it will be at least another 10 years before I get to them. It’s tine to let someone else do something with it. I’m in no hurry to sell, it’s paid off and I don’t need the money. It will be interesting to see what happens.
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Post by oped on May 13, 2020 13:38:40 GMT -5
We were in the process of splitting our business lot into 3... one with the garage to keep and 2 to sell. I figured that was probably not going to happen now this year. I don’t see people starting to build during a pandemic?
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scooter
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Post by scooter on May 27, 2020 7:17:55 GMT -5
Following and will be using some of these suggestions.
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Post by jerseygirl on May 27, 2020 8:48:40 GMT -5
Here in northern NJ getting sales to people moving out of NYC Son is selling house and getting multiple offers
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