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Tips for Moving with Young Children

Moving is a hard-enough process, but it’s even more challenging with young children. With the amount of planning that goes into your moving day, it can feel nearly impossible to keep your kids in line at the same time. Although every family is different and faces many challenging obstacles in the moving process, here are 10 tips you can take advantage of during your moving day.

1. Prepare Your Kids for Moving Day

If you don’t explain to your kids what’s going to happen on moving day, you might make them anxious and scared. A few days before moving day, make sure you take the time to discuss what’s going to happen with the help of visual aids and age-appropriate books.

2. Don’t Rush Anything

The last thing you want to do on moving day is rushing anything. Especially if you have a child on board, it’s important that you take your time and carefully pack everything correctly. Doing so will ensure no damages to your belongings occur, that nothing is forgotten and will still give you plenty of time to engage your child.

3. Let Your Kids Help

If your child is old enough, you should let them help pack some of their own belongings. Even if your kid is young, you can let them pack their toys and wrap things in bubble wrap. However, you should save the heftier work for yourself and the professional movers. It’s also never a bad idea to double check their work.

4. Pack a Toy Bag

In case your child becomes too distracting and needs attention, you should bring a medium-size backpack with your child’s toys and activities, such as coloring books, blankets, and dolls. This will help calm them in the moving process, especially if you have to go on an airplane or drive to your new home.

5. Label Your Kid’s Things Clearly

Instead of needing to take time digging your kid’s belongings from large storage boxes, you should clearly label all of their things, so you know where it is at all times. This way, if they want a specific toy, you can open the box labeled toys and let them have some playtime. Also, this can help to ensure that you pack your child’s necessary items in an easily accessible spot.

6. Properly Time Your Move

Although circumstances can change at the last moment, it’s important that you properly time your move, so you’re doing it in a calm time in your child’s life to prevent them from feeling anxious about moving. It’s crucial that you consider their school schedule when planning out your move so as not to add too many changes when they transition schools.

7. Make it Fun for the Family

Moving can cause an imbalance in your child’s life, especially with a change of routine. So, it’s important that you try making the move as fun for the family as you can. If your kid helps you move, treat them to dinner out, ice cream, a new toy or an allowance boost. This will help your children become acclimated to the moving process.

8. Make Sure You Have Extra Clothes on Hand

Kids can get pretty messy; this is why you should have extra clothes on hand when you move. In case your kid gets a little too messy from having an accident or with food on the road, keep a few outfits in ziplock bags and wet wipes in case you need to make a pit stop.

9. Keep the Same Routines

Of course with a new home, things may have to change, but it’s important for your child that you try to keep routines as close to the same thing as you can. If you need to change up your kid’s routine for the move, it’s important to compensate and include some fun changes to your child’s life, such as weekend cartoons, short day trips, or fun outdoor activities.

10. Make the New Home Feel Homey

When taking your time to unpack your belongings, hang cherished family items, such as family photos and other familiar items. This will help make the new home feel less strange and more home for you and your family. Be certain to set up your children’s room as soon as possible. This will really help them to settle in quicker and preoccupy them while you unpack and organize everything else.

Moving is never an easy process, especially if you have children with you. Hopefully, with our tips above, you can make the moving process a little easier on your family, especially with the younger members of it.

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Spark A Bidding War

Are you ready to make a move? Do you have a certain figure in mind that you’d like to sell for? In today’s market you might be able to get more than think. Here are a few things to consider that may help you get even more than your asking price with a bidding competition!

1. ATTRACT MORE BUYERS

When there isn't much interest in a property, buyer's get nervous and suspicious that there may be something wrong with the home that they may be missing. You want to price your home competitively to entice more showings. When you price your home right under the market standard, it leads to more showings, more appointments, and more excitement about your home.

2. PRICE IT TO MOVE IT

You want to make sure your price gets buyers interested in your property. Even if they end up paying more than asking, the excitement from feeling like they are getting a deal and landing your home sets the right mood for buyers to WANT your property. Always price the home in a way that is going to appeal to a large audience. Pricing a home at $399,900 can generally generate more foot traffic than one listed at $400,000. Advertising a home for sale that is listed for slightly under the market value can garner a lot of interest, which can lead to the home selling for more than what the seller originally wanted.

3. START UP THE BUZZ

Make sure you work with an agent that has the ability and marketing background to start buzz around your home BEFORE it goes on the market. You want to let potential buyers know that your home is going to be coming soon, and start up conversation and interest. This gives time for word to spread, to get more foot traffic and competition starting the first day your house hits the market.

4. STAGING IS KEY

It's without question that to get over market value for your home, it has to be in tip-top condition. Discuss with your agent the importance of having your home professionally cleaned and staged to attract more buyers. Starting up a buzz won't lead to much if buyers walk into your home and turned off by odors, unappealing lighting, or rooms that are not properly staged. You want to allow buyers and opportunity to see your home in the best light the first time they walk through your door.

5. CREATE A DEADLINE

Have your agent set a deadline for offers, say a Monday or Tuesday, right after a weekend of doing open houses. This can generate a sense of urgency around your home, letting buyers think there is a large amount of interest and to get offers in quickly. Setting them up with this state of urgency generally makes them want to put their best foot forward with their first offer.

6. SWEETEN THE DEAL

To generate a little more excitement and foot traffic, you can offer an incentive for whomever purchases the home, or set a fun giveaway during an open house. Some people have given away cars, tickets to a major event - like the Super Bowl, given away vacation tickets, etc. Doing an out-of-the-box giveaway helps to generate organic buzz around your home. Some giveaways have even landed seller's homes in the local news. More buzz means more potential buyers, which means a potential opportunity for a bidding war to get you a better sales price.

Hire a realtor you can trust who will stay ahead of the game, knows the local real estate market and has the tools and ability to market your house and get you top dollar on your investment.

Give me call and I’ll take it from there! 

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