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A phone call will bring an organization specialist to your doorstep to evaluate your needs and offer suggestions on the services that would be of benefit to your particular situation.
Together you will select the areas where you feel that help is needed and discuss pricing options. Then, with your collaboration and input, your H2H specialist will develop a detailed schedule of the steps that will follow and with your approval will proceed to carry them out.
At the old home:
- Using the new home floor plans, work with the clients to photograph, list, and tag the items selected to be moved.
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Separate and label artwork, rugs and decorations to be moved.
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Contact antique and art dealers, if needed, for appraisals.
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If there are items that need to be stored, get estimate for storage unit.
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Separate items to be donated or given away to family or friends and label them. Arrange for donation, gifts to be picked up.
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Sort and mark items to be packed and moved. Supervise packing.
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Separate for shredding obsolete papers and documents.
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Dispose of unwanted items and trash.
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Get estimates from moving companies.
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Pack the “must have” items, medicines, important papers, special food needs, etc, before the movers come, and have them available for use by the clients.
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Supervise the packing by movers.
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Supervise the move.
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Prepare the house for sale to maximize its value.
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Evaluate repairs needed/plumbing/electrical/etc.
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Do lawn and yard clean-up
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Painting
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Carpet-cleaning or re-carpeting
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Do general house cleaning.
At the new home:
- Prepare floor plans and pictures of the new home. Review floor plans with client to maximize storage space and help with furniture selection and placement
- Arrange for service connection of utilities to the new home
- Supervise arrival of movers to the new house.
- Unpack boxes and organize in drawers, cabinets, closets.
- Arrange carpets and furniture according to approved placement.
- Hang pictures, place decorations.
- Stock refrigerator with essentials.
- Dispose of moving boxes and wrappings.
- Arrange to discontinue utilities in the old house once sold.
- Check that kitchen appliances, lamps, etc are working
At the end of moving day: The boxes are gone, everything is in place, and the residents are ready to start a brand new chapter of their lives.
ABOUT DOWNSIZING:
Downsizing to a smaller home is a challenging process. H2H works closely with seniors and empty nesters to ease the daunting process of sorting through a lifetime of possessions. H2H makes this often dreaded transition in anyone’s life a smooth and stress free experience.
There is a time of transition in a senior’s life when circumstances require that they downsize and simplify their living arrangements. The decision to move is usually made with the members of the family involved, once made however, the time constrains and job demands on family members make it impossible for them to help with the moving process. Here is where the transition specialists of House to Home come in.
The mission of House to Home Solutions is to make this often dreaded transition in the life of a senior a smooth and pleasant experience. We are ready to oversee this major life event in a senior’s life cheerfully, with kindness, and great expertise.
House to Home Solutions offer complete care of the moving process from beginning to end by preparing the present home for sale, selling or disposing of its contents, improving the home curb appeal to maximize the sale price, selling the home at the best price*, managing the move to the new home, supervising packing and unpacking, and organizing furniture to the clients wishes. The results; at the end of moving day, the boxes are gone, everything is in place, and the residents are settled in their new home ready to start a new chapter in their lives.
* Isabel Carrero, House to Home Solutions President, is also a Senior Real Estate specialist with RE/MAX Pros. She can sell your home, under a separate agreement, unless already listed with another realtor.
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