Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?

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nobbie48 said:
Can they move the pods when they are full? Make it part of the move.
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Yes. That is part of the appeal. Roughly speaking, you pay $100 to drop it off, $200 a month to keep it at your place(IIRC first week is included, you can pay more to keep it at their place), $100 to pick it up. If you want it moved full, they charge something like $1/km over 50 km and obviously, that triggers another pickup fee after you empty it.

I had a 16' container and it was money well spent. Allowed me to pack and unpack over a week or more. Solving logistics issues alone made it worth it. When something was ready, it went straight into the container instead of piling up in the house somewhere. In the new house, when weather was cooperative, pull some stuff out. Keeps some room in the garage instead of having an 8x8x16' pile of stuff to deal with and no room to move.
 
raginduck said:
Can you handle the purchase if your doesn’t sell in time?
When we bought a couple of months ago… we looked for sellers that already made purchases.. and used that to negotiate.
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Without getting into it, there's a very particular house we want to buy and it's already sitting empty.

Unfortunately (or fortunately) it's from friends of ours so it's a matter of coming to an agreement on price and we can proceed.

Until they confirm for me that they're ok with our offer, I won't list ours.

EDIT: However, if the deal doesn't materialize...we will consider selling our first and then buying because I don't want to get stuck in limbo where I buy a property, without knowing how much cash I end up getting for ours.

I THINK that our number is realistic in today's market (according to 2 realtors) so it's a matter of coming up with a price for their house that works for all.
 
I would just check the local storage places for rates. Organize better to move stuff in batches. Clutter can be determent to selling... a pod or whatever in the yard/driveway is another form of clutter.

Another possible option, a friend of mine bought a cube van when they were in a similar situation. After they moved they basically sold it for what they paid for it. They had an offsite place to park it.
 
backmarkerducati said:
I would just check the local storage places for rates. Organize better to move stuff in batches. Clutter can be determent to selling... a pod or whatever in the yard/driveway is another form of clutter.

Another possible option, a friend of mine bought a cube van when they were in a similar situation. After they moved they basically sold it for what they paid for it. They had an offsite place to park it.
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Would be nice to park all of our junk in the 'new' house, with the only risk being if we don't sell...we have to move it all back lol.
 
Yesterday I took time to listen to my home stereo for the first time in a while. Found the sub wasn't working and I found the wireless adaptor unplugged (accident by cleaner likely) so an easy fix. Then I found a 6.5" driver on each of my floor standers is rattling (they haven't been over-driven so I'm guessing a guests kiddo pushed them in and messed up the coils
 
mimico_polak said:
Well looks like we may be looking for a new house :(

We like our house, but it's getting rather tight as the kids get older and need more space. MIL is around, and now with dog.

We have a house in mind, and will need to touch up a few interior deficiencies in our place as well.

Question is where to store all the JUNK / Clutter during showings? I don't have the space so considering the pod route in front of the house.

We're putting in an offer on a house this week, and if that goes we'll be listing in a month or so to hopefully sell for a minimum amount of 1.4M or so...which may be tough in the current market.
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Take your spare stuff to a storage locker. Most have short term incentives that will make it cheaper than a pod.

A pod doesn’t do much for your curb appeal.
 
GreyGhost said:
You don't want to advertise to potential buyers that your house isn't big enough to fit all your stuff. Given the current market, time to sell can easily be months and a pod gets expensive too. I used a locker during listing and a pod close to closing.
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Well if we move, and if we buy that house then I can hopefully use this exercise as a de-cluttering exercise.

Unfortunately this move would also double our mortgage....so there's a few things to consider.
 
mimico_polak said:
Well looks like we may be looking for a new house :(

We like our house, but it's getting rather tight as the kids get older and need more space. MIL is around, and now with dog.

We have a house in mind, and will need to touch up a few interior deficiencies in our place as well.

Question is where to store all the JUNK / Clutter during showings? I don't have the space so considering the pod route in front of the house.

We're putting in an offer on a house this week, and if that goes we'll be listing in a month or so to hopefully sell for a minimum amount of 1.4M or so...which may be tough in the current market.
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If you go with heyray they offer free storage for 3 months
 
I called the mover that I would eventually use when we moved , had them load everything into the moving van that the real estate lady said needs to go . They put it into their warehouse , we buy new house , they get everything from storage and my old house , all shows up at new house . One phone call , problem sorted .


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how does one project escalate? we have two leather club chairs in the kitchen , one had developed a small crack in the dried out arm. We have had them for years. We go look for new chairs , lighter fabric color and now the carpet wont match , new carpet. Arms on new chairs are wider so the big flat screen on a stand between them didnt look right . TV gets mounted on the wall , now we need top relocate pictures and I'm painting a massive wall . Im 6k in and $5 bucks in duct tape would have fixed that small tear.
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