Comments on: Move Before You Have To

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:23:08 +0000

Hi Paul, Good to hear from you. I can imagine that being a salesman with a project like that puts you in an awkward position, and I’m glad Leigh took the time to write this post up. It’s important to think ahead about where you’re going to live, and what the next several decades of your life are going to be like.

Cheers,

Chris

By: Paul Fitzsimmons

Paul Fitzsimmons — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 03:20:29 +0000

I have heard of this situation many times while selling the Californian Meadowlark. Many of the people who live around Meadowlark are seniors and still live in the home they raised their families in. They would come in to the show suite and you could tell one of them was just pacifying the other. Or it’s the children dragging one of the parents around to look at condos as the other parent had passed on recently. I do tell them to move while they can but I probably come off as a pushy salesman.

Please say hello to Bill and Hilda for me.
Paul Fitzsimmons
Abbey Lane Homes

By: mom

mom — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:40:09 +0000

Great to hear you are talking about their housing needs before their choices are limited.

By: qmanrei

qmanrei — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:01:18 +0000

Thank you for sharing. I love my father and mother in-law, they are great people and very active. I think they are busier in retirement than they were when they were working. They recently moved from a 3 story home to a bungalow, living much closer to us.

It has also been great to talk, here and there, about what they want for the future and their housing needs. It has helped us prepare and I think gives them more security about the future as well.

By: mom

mom — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:26:31 +0000

Thanks for you comment. We have made lots of progress in clearing the stuuf from the house. We have learned many lessons we can apply to our own life, over the past two weeks.

By: Jared Chamberlain

Jared Chamberlain — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:56:55 +0000

Great Post… it is horrible when you walk into a home that has been lived in for soooo long, and you can’t move. I’ve seen some places that have so much junk in them that there are paths to walk through with boxes and papers stacked on either side of you. This is not an uplifting place to be in, and it’s good to make sure you declutter as much as possible…