In addition to surprising and impressing your clients with your attention to their unique likes, you are also giving them a powerful incentive to get involved with their community. Involved people tend to be better homeowners and community members and happier about their place in their community. Our job as agents includes making people happy about their new home and community. Happy people refer new friends to you and think of you first when it's time to move or sell.
Driving can take a long time, especially if you’re driving across country. You should plan your stops at hotels carefully, as many don’t allow dogs or may be full. Reserve rooms as early as possible. If you’re visiting friends, ensure that they know in advance that you have your furry companion(s) with you.
Did you know that your furnace room shouldn’t be used for storage? If you’ve just purchased a home with a furnace after living in places with alternative types of heating, this might be a bit of a surprise. A furnace needs lots of ventilation which can be compromised by a full and cluttered furnace room. Also, storing things in your furnace room can cause a fire hazard, so take the time to store things somewhere else.
If you are relocating, you need to plan several things to make sure that then move will go smoothly. Careful planning will help reduce the problems you have to deal with. It will also enable you to prioritize the essential things. Among the things you need to plan is the hiring of the moving company and the packing of your things.
Before you start the process, try to have the extras in place: packing tape, newspapers, bubble wrap or plain newsprint for wrapping breakables, black or other colored markers, paper and pens to list contents of box.
Start by looking for boxes already sitting in your basement or attic. Go through your stuff and get rid of anything you haven't used in the last year and recycle the container its been stored in. Downsizing before you move is probably one of the biggest gifts you can give yourself. You'll never miss all that stuff and you'll love having less boxes to unpack in your new home.
There are relocation guidelines to follow if you are planning on moving your home (the physical building) from one place to another. If your house is part of a historical neighborhood, area or district, then the relocation guidelines that you must follow are much more onerous. As you can see, there are quite a few obstacles that must be overcome before you can start the moving process.
Pack everything else that is going with you. Pretend you’re on a demented camping trip with your family and have decided to “rough it” with one set of utensils for each person and a minimum of cooking equipment.
If you are relocating on your own, it can be a bit of a mixed blessing. On one hand, you only have yourself to worry about but on the other hand, you only have yourself to rely on as well. Relocating with your family will be trickier because you have more opinions to take into account and more issues to worry about. It can be argued though that relocating with teenagers is potentially the hardest move of all.
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