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The Two-Move Reality: Navigating Downsizing in a Tight Senior Housing Market
For years, downsizing followed a fairly straightforward path: sell the home, move into a senior living community, and settle in. Now, that path is changing. More and more seniors are running into the same issue: the unit they actually want isn’t available. Instead of...
Selling a Lifetime: The Realities of Liquidating Personal Property
When it’s time to downsize, relocate, or settle an estate, one of the biggest challenges isn’t the move itself. It’s figuring out what to do with everything left behind. For many families, decades of furniture, collectibles, art, jewelry, and everyday household items...
What to Know Before Your Move
Moving is exciting but it can also feel like a full-time job. Between deciding what to keep, packing, scheduling movers, etc., the process can quickly become overwhelming. The good news? A little knowledge can save you time, stress, and money. Let’s take a closer look...
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Hidden Costs of Self-Storage
It’s no surprise that self-storage is booming. More and more people are relocating, downsizing, remodeling – or simply overwhelmed by the sheer amount of “stuff” in their lives. And the idea of renting a storage unit “just for a little while” seems like a simple fix....
What to Look for in Senior Living Communities: Considerations for Seniors and Their Family Members
Choosing the most suitable senior living community can be daunting for seniors, let alone their families. Type of care, location, amenities, financing options … there are many factors to take into consideration. Suffice it to say that this is not a decision to be made...
Nowhere to Go: The Senior Housing Shortage and Its Ripple Effect
For years, realtors, estate planners, and elder law attorneys have relied on one consistent trend: seniors moving out of their longtime homes. These transitions freed up housing inventory, generated liquidity for retirement or care, and helped aging adults move into...
A Grateful Villager
A personal reflection Many newsletters and articles about seniors focus on the need to have a plan … starting with the difficult conversation with your parent, having to consider the worst case and life’s inevitable outcome, investigating available resources,...
Downsizing: 5 Tips to Get You Started!
The concept is easy -- To downsize, first you must declutter! Some of the toughest tasks, when downsizing, are how to decide which of the meaningful mementos to keep and what to do with those sentimental treasures you really love but don’t have room for. Getting...
A 30-Year-Old Showcase Home with Challenges
Choate, Hall and Stewart, a leading Boston estate planning and legal firm, called upon Transitions Liquidation Services to assist the daughter of one of their clients. Mom was ill and experiencing cognitive decline. Daughter Sandy moved Mom to her home in California...
It Takes a Village
A complex move calls for bringing in resources to achieve a successful result. The competitive state of the current housing market is no secret to most, which means being opportunistic about when you list your home for sale. This was certainly the case for our...