Need advice on moving

When we moved, we packed everything in boxes ourselves, and only paid the movers to load the boxes, and all the furniture. That way, we were able to label every box with what was in it. This was important because we didn't plan on unpacking everything during the 13 months we lived in the rental house. I think it cost us about $1,200 each time for the movers. Both moves were less than 2 miles.

My son was about 15 months old when we first listed our house, and almost 2 when we moved out. We had to always do last minute cleanings when potential buyers wanted to come. Work all week, then spend one day of your weekend cleaning and showing your house. It absolutely sucked. There were a few times that we had last minute requests to show the house, and we had to deny them because we just couldn't get him and the house ready in time. We did FSBO. The buyers didn't have a realtor either, so we saved a ton of money.

I intend to live in our current house until I die.
 
McCracken said:
This will require lots of work because we have a 19 month old that is in to everything.
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Yours is 19 months old, too? Such a great age, huh? :D Knows enough to have lots of fun, smile and make everyone smile, and get into mischief. My little guy was born 2/10/16.

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cliff2 said:
Yours is 19 months old, too? Such a great age, huh? :D Knows enough to have lots of fun, smile and make everyone smile, and get into mischief. My little guy was born 2/10/16.

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Yeah, he's something... I think when they talk about getting your paybacks this is what they were talking about.
 
We just recently moved. Found a house we wanted and had to jump on it immediately and our house wasn't ready to go on the market yet. So we took out a home equity loan on our house to pay the down payment on the new house. Then when our old house sold, it paid off the mortgage, the home equity loan, and still put money in our pocket. The fees for the home equity loan were only a few hundred bucks, so no big deal. It was worth the fees to get the house we wanted.

But the key to me going thru with that was that I was satisfied I could make all the payments for a few months if I had too. Of course the credit union had to be satisfied that I could do that too, or they wouldn't have let me do it.

If you don't think you can swing all the payments, don't. Rent a place until you sell yours. Renting may be good anyway to give you more time to figure what side of town you want to live in.
 
paradisePWoffrd said:
You can also talk with the company you are going to. I know that most larger companies will work with housing if they really want someone. My company routinely will cover rent for a few months, pay realtor & moving costs, even buy/sell houses for ppl depending on what they are asking/looking for. All of that stuff can be written off so they cover more then you might think they would. Cant hurt to ask.
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@McCracken check and confirm on this before this thread even keeps going. All your stress may be irrelevant, if you can get them to cover a lot of the costs. You just gotta convince them you're the badass they want.
 
When move day comes, pack a suitcase. Be sure it stays with you in whatever you drive. Then you won't have to go thru boxes late on the first night looking for a toothbrush (or share) and underwear (or share).
 
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