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Jan 30, 2019 20:11:52 GMT -6
Post by dizzycooks on Jan 30, 2019 20:11:52 GMT -6
I know several of you have moved in the last year or so and I am in need of some help. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to move with kids.
We will need to put our house on the market, pray it sells quickly, push the closing date out 6-8 weeks and then hope and pray we find a new house in that time frame and close on the same or near that date. While we are between houses I have no idea where we will live. My family will not take in the 6 of us so we may well end up in a hotel. We need to pack everything we don't "need" obviously, so we can show the house and do pictures, but with 4 kids we "need" a lot of things. We need to move our things. We are thinking of getting a storage pod, but when do we load it? After we get a purchase agreement? Then what do we do for the interim?
Seriously. I cannot fathom how this will work. Help me adult. We need to sell our house so we have the equity to buy the next house. I do not understand how to do this. If you can explain it to me like I'm 2, I'd really appreciate it.
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Jan 30, 2019 21:40:32 GMT -6
Post by mintyblueair on Jan 30, 2019 21:40:32 GMT -6
I don't have any advice but I'm following because we are in the same situation. Right now we're planning to put the house on the market just before/after moving to our new city and then rent for a year, and pray the house sells quickly so we don't have to carry the mortgage + rent for too long. I can't wrap my head around trying to sell while we're still living in it, and we live in a very slow market, so we're resigned to renting for a year before buying again.
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Jan 31, 2019 8:18:02 GMT -6
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Post by polson on Jan 31, 2019 8:18:02 GMT -6
we moved 2 years ago but with just one kid so i’m not sure my advice would be helpful but we packed nonessential stuff and shipped it off gradually before we put our house up for staging purposes. would your family be willing to hold some stuff so that it wouldn’t be so overwhelming to decide when to pack the pod? in any case i think packing stuff gradually would be helpful (obviously i know and it’s easier said than done) to lessen the burden of deciding when to put it all in the pod. i guess i would think it would be easier getting it done before the purchase agreement. i guess i’m just brain dumping here and this is probably not helpful at all. we’re planning on moving in another 2 years and i’m already dreading it😑
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Jan 31, 2019 8:20:06 GMT -6
Post by calendula on Jan 31, 2019 8:20:06 GMT -6
We moved when DS was about 2. A lot of it was luck, but here were some things that were helpful.
Start packing now. Pare your clothes down to a capsule wardrobe for each of you, pack your kitchen down to the bare minimum, and put at least half the toys in storage. I promise you don't "need" as much as you think you do. It makes keeping the house clean for showings WAY easier when you have less crap around to put away and launder, and when you move, it will way easier also. You can price out a POD and a self storage facility if you don't have storage space in a basement or something.
We paid a housecleaner to come and do a full clean on a Thursday morning. Realtor did photos and went live with the listing on a Thursday afternoon. No showings until an open house on Saturday afternoon and we held all offers until the following Wednesday to get some competition stoked. We were lucky and had an offer by then so we didn't have to keep it clean for very long, lol.
Most banks aren't going to process a mortgage in less than 30 days so IMO an 8 week closing is not that unusual (unless youre in an area with a lot of cash buyers). Push it back as much as you can and be cooperative with your buyers about allowing access for things like measuring, quotes if they are going to be hiring contractors, etc. Get your preapproval letter from your bank before your list your own house so that you are ready to go househunting and make offers the second you're under contract. Be prepared to move quickly--when we bought our second house, DH toured it in the morning, texted me that he liked it, I went in the afternoon and signed the offer in the house while I was there. No wasting time.
Have a backup plan in case you don't sell by your closing date. We had toured an apartment complex that allowed month to month and set a deadline for ourselves about 30 days before our closing date. If we hadn't found a house by that day, allowing us to close on both houses at the same time, we were going to sign a lease on that apartment. It wasn't ideal, but the way I saw it, it would make us more attractive buyers because we wouldn't have the contingency of selling our house. We ended up signing that offer on our second house on the very last day of that deadline and TBH I was a little disappointed about not getting to move in that apartment, LOL. It sounded fun. Living somewhere out of suitcases essentially with just a few pots and pans but no yard maintenance and a apartment complex swimming pool sounded a whole lot like vacation.
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Jan 31, 2019 8:23:09 GMT -6
Post by calendula on Jan 31, 2019 8:23:09 GMT -6
OH and when we scheduled the closings, although they were on the same day, we actually moved out of our first home 1 day prior and had the moving company hold our belongings for 2 nights to allow a full day for closing. Your house needs to be fully empty on the morning or day before closing for inspection. So you will want to plan to sleep at family/friends or a hotel for just a couple nights even if you close both on the same day.
We had friends recently who did not do this, and had the movers sitting in the driveway waiting for the bank paperwork to go through (delays are common at that stage of closing) and they were paying by the minute. Way more stressful than just planning for a 24-48 storage gap over moving time.
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Jan 31, 2019 8:28:01 GMT -6
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Post by polson on Jan 31, 2019 8:28:01 GMT -6
yes i didnt even think of the cleaning aspect of it! like calendula, we had someone come in the thursday before open house. it was a pretty hot market so we had offers after first open house on saturday. i think things are still moving fast here so i think that the cleaning part is totally worth it.
and in total agreement that you really don’t need as much as you think - although it might be hard to convince kids.
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Post by alwayscheese on Jan 31, 2019 12:32:59 GMT -6
Hi 👋 I'll be following also. Might forward your posts to DH calendula. There's a house a couple miles away from us that DH and I keep thinking we'd like to buy. We're just very undecided and would have to sell our house first. The house we're looking at has been on the market.for a year+ so DH is gonna call the realtor next week and say "if you can sell our house we'll buy that one" lol. We have a little view of the lake which I will MISS but hopefully will make it sell fast. We've been talking about renovating our current house in a couple years so if we don't sell that's our other plan.
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Jan 31, 2019 12:36:38 GMT -6
Post by calendula on Jan 31, 2019 12:36:38 GMT -6
Hi 👋 I'll be following also. Might forward your posts to DH calendula . There's a house a couple miles away from us that DH and I keep thinking we'd like to buy. We're just very undecided and would have to sell our house first. The house we're looking at has been on the market.for a year+ so DH is gonna call the realtor next week and say "if you can sell our house we'll buy that one" lol. We have a little view of the lake which I will MISS but hopefully will make it sell fast. We've been talking about renovating our current house in a couple years so if we don't sell that's our other plan. don't do that!!! The realtor might be a part of the reason it hasn't sold. You want an agent representing your own needs, not double dipping on both sides of the deal. GL though! Thinking about moving is exciting
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Post by alwayscheese on Jan 31, 2019 12:39:52 GMT -6
Hi 👋 I'll be following also. Might forward your posts to DH calendula . There's a house a couple miles away from us that DH and I keep thinking we'd like to buy. We're just very undecided and would have to sell our house first. The house we're looking at has been on the market.for a year+ so DH is gonna call the realtor next week and say "if you can sell our house we'll buy that one" lol. We have a little view of the lake which I will MISS but hopefully will make it sell fast. We've been talking about renovating our current house in a couple years so if we don't sell that's our other plan. don't do that!!! The realtor might be a part of the reason it hasn't sold. You want an agent representing your own needs, not double dipping on both sides of the deal. GL though! Thinking about moving is exciting Oh, hadn't thought of that! DH's theory was they would be helpful to us since they'd want to sell the other place to us lol. 🤷 But I will tell him this.
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Jan 31, 2019 14:02:10 GMT -6
Post by woodenshoes on Jan 31, 2019 14:02:10 GMT -6
We moved mid-September. Our old house had a pole barn, so we packed everything that we didn't need up and put it into a pole barn. We kept the stuff out that we needed day to day. We lived on way less than I though we could. Prior to showings we would pick everything up and put it back into order. Basically, you don't want a cluttered house and it is best to take down all personal pictures. Our realtor sent us a long list of things to prepare for the house pictures and showings.
In the purchase agreement you can negotiate some time to move out of your house (if needed) after the house is closed on (i.e. closing +10) after closing you become renters for those days and would pay the portion of the mortgage for the days you are there. Also, if you find a house on the market you can put in your purchase agreement pending sale of current house if you do not have the finances to pay. However, the seller could still sell the house to someone else if a better offer comes in. We did that (we had two offers on the house we sold and took the offer that was not contingent on the buyers selling their current house). We ended up closing on our new house a day or two after the new buyers closed on our old house. They allowed us ten days to move out after closing. It just kind of depends on circumstances and how willing/flexible the buyers and sellers are. There are options and the realtor will help you figure things out. It is stressful, but it can be done, with children. When my brother and SIL moved they shipped their children to my parents house for a week while they packed everything up at the old house and moved into the new house.
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Feb 1, 2019 11:56:48 GMT -6
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Post by Leaf 🌱 on Feb 1, 2019 11:56:48 GMT -6
Our sellers rented from us for three months. It was annoying but it meant we had a little extra time to pack and sell our house. It’s defintiely an option if you need it.
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Feb 3, 2019 1:30:05 GMT -6
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Post by nevertoomanyshoes on Feb 3, 2019 1:30:05 GMT -6
We did this last year and it really was a special kind of hell. We listed in August and planned to have a long settlement to give us time to buy. We figured we’d have 1 week, 2 max we’d need interim accomodation...
We sold in September and got a 90 day closing on our place. Plenty of time! But then the market died in that there was talk of a down trend so people just didn’t list. It was meant to be the busiest sales time of year (we planned ithe timing deliberately). But wasn’t to be so we closed on our place and had to stay at MIL’s for 8 weeks. We actually hadn’t bought a new house yet when we moved in with her and that limbo unknown was so fucking stressful. Luckily we found something a week later and got a short closing but because of Christmas and the new year, had to wait until mid Jan to close and move in.
We listed when DS2 was pretty new and getting out for the open for inspections was a big hassle. Before that we packed and de cluttered a lot. Like a lot a lot. I kept some toys and just threw them in the storage ottoman for opens. Cleaning for the opens was a nightmare and I was frantically doing this while the baby was being a needy mess and the toddler trying to destroy my cleaning. So much screen time was had haha.
But man it was worth it. We are in our dream house now.
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Feb 3, 2019 6:17:20 GMT -6
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Post by sweetc129 on Feb 3, 2019 6:17:20 GMT -6
Godspeed. We are in the mist of it now. Our move date is 3/2. We are in possession of both houses. Our current house isn’t even on the market yet and while DH tries to finish updates to new house and finish projects here while I pack with three young kids is stressful AF. I try not to think about it day to day and just keep on each day doing as much as we can. Sorry I don’t have more tips, but it sucks but it will end. Good luck!
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Feb 4, 2019 7:34:11 GMT -6
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Post by Leaf 🌱 on Feb 4, 2019 7:34:11 GMT -6
Another moving tip: HIRE MOVERS. Pack yourself, use different colored duct tape to color code the boxes for each room, nd put a key at the entry way and big color coded signs on each room so the movers know exactly where to go with what boxes. It was worth every. Single. Penny.
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Feb 4, 2019 8:11:41 GMT -6
Post by calendula on Feb 4, 2019 8:11:41 GMT -6
Another moving tip: HIRE MOVERS. Pack yourself, use different colored duct tape to color code the boxes for each room, nd put a key at the entry way and big color coded signs on each room so the movers know exactly where to go with what boxes. It was worth every. Single. Penny. Yes! Our rule for ourselves is that if we don't have the money to include the cost of movers in our budget, then we don't have enough money to buy/sell our house. Its a must.
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