No matter how many homes we can sell a year in
Atlanta, nothing really can prepare you for moving day as it approaches. It comes too fast, and is stressful! Ellen and I recently listed and got our own home in Atlanta under contract in record time. We are downsizing. Both son's have just graduated college and are staying north. One son has an apartment in Silver Spring Maryland, and the other is taking a job in Long Island. So we now are truly empty nester's, The shock hit us more after our sons graduated college and made their attentions known to us. So there is no point keeping up a big
home in the Atlantaarea, we decided it was a good time to get the home on the market. With help from an active Rain Blog we sold our home in Alpharetta in record time. It is not "Under contract" and we are preparing to move into smaller temporary quarters that will allow us to right size our needs. We decided to rent as oppose to settle on a home that we just rush into. Renting will afford us the time to choose our next home at our own pace. The problem is that we are still running a real estate business, showing homes, taking care of listings, at the same time we are packing, giving away furniture, talking to movers, deciding what to keep, what to store, what to throw away, and what to give to charity! It is overwhelming to say the least. What is good about it, is that it allows us to practice what we preach with our clients, it affords us the opportunity to walk a mile in our client's shoes, boxing, carting, moving, and all the items that brings stress into our lives, even thought we are on target to achieving our goal.
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Hey Jim & Ellen,
Jane and I just did the same thing, we sold our 4,000 sq.ft. custom two years ago and rented for two years. We just bought a 1950 sq.ft. New home and moved in a few weeks ago, I too was thinking to myself, I put a lot of people through this every month year after year...and most of them still like me!!
I hope !
We're still emptying boxes and looking for places to put stuff, we threw out a lot and gave away a lot, and we're almost done doing that...except for the 65 plus moving boxes. Well I offered them to a client who is moving soon.
Good Luck, I'll be thinking about you both in your little rented house, you'll soon buy a place, it's not the same living in someone else's home. Hard to make plans with their garden etc.
Cheers, have an awesome day
Here's Fred & Jane Checking out the home just before we made an offer...
Hey Jim!
I thought Steven Levitt (Freakonomics) made the claim that Realtors keep their own homes on the market LONGER, so as to sell it for MORE MONEY... and here you and Ellen go and upset his little theory! Ah, don't fret - he's been dis-credited as a mediocre researcher on several other points...
Enjoy your new digs!
How I have dreaded doing that. The stress of moving is bad enough but to keep running your business at the same time has got to be tough. I wish you luck-hang in there.
Jim:
It's amazing what walking a mile in someone's shoes will do for one's perspective.
Jim,
Good luck in your new surroundings. It is hard to downsize when you are used to larger digs.
Holy cow...congrats on the move! Good luck sorting and searching...I wish you both well!
(and I'm sooo glad it's you and not me, we've only been in this house three years and it will take me a while before I'm ready to undertake that again!)
Heather
Paula I'm overwhelmed right now.
Kay Gee Thanks! LOL! Actually I 'm looking forward to the rental!
Heather I hate moving, but this is a major downsize.