Why Use A Senior Moving Company?
Just the thought of moving or downsizing can bring on feelings of being overwhelmed for all of us. For seniors or the adult child of seniors, the challenges can feel even greater. All the decisions on what belongings to keep, what might go to other family members or be donated, what furniture and other belongings will fit in my new home? All these questions and many more can be a heavy weight leaving us with not knowing where to start.
Many adult children of seniors are busy with their own lives and careers or living far away in another state, so that even though they would like to help their parents with the downsizing or rightsizing process, they are unable to. Where can families or seniors turn to for help that will provide compassionate respect for sorting through years of memories while still moving through the needed steps in an efficient manner that still gets the job done respectfully?
The answer: A SENIOR MOVING COMPANY
Fortunately, a Senior Moving Company can provide tremendous assistance and objectivity for seniors or adult children who find themselves at a point in life where they really need to right size to remain in their current home, or actually move to a new, smaller home.
A Senior Moving Company has specialized staff members that are expert project managers who work with seniors to provide the needed assistance to navigate through the right-sizing or downsizing process. The Senior Moving Company staff member will help with planning for your new home setup, sorting, organizing and dispersing of household items not needed, set up and supervise the actual moving day, pack the original home and unpack and setup at your new home and then make sure your original home is sparkling clean and staged to sell at the best price.
Senior Moving Company staff can also help remove a tremendous amount of stress for all involved by providing expert advice and then ensuring all the many necessary, complex steps are executed in a thoughtful manner leading to a peaceful move for seniors.
As mentioned above, there are several steps involved in the process that a Senior Moving Company can provide significant problem solving and assistance with which we at Arizona Senior Moving Company cover on our website and in several of our blog posts.
Home Cleaning and Home Staging: It’s important!
Home Cleanup
Arizona Transitions Senior Move Managers and staff will also provide your house with professional cleaning that will leave your house sparkling clean and ready for sale. We also have Certified Home Staging professionals on staff that will use your existing furniture or rented furnishings to set your home up so that it appeals to the highest number of potential buyers.
The cleaning component consists of many items including wiping down all ceiling fans and heating/ac vents, wiping down walls, doors and baseboards, wiping down all light fixtures, light switches and switch plates, cleaning the entire kitchen and bathrooms, dusting, vacuuming all hard floors and carpets, mopping all hard floors, professional window cleaning as necessary and also professional carpet cleaning.
This will leave your house noticeably cleaner than most of the other houses on the market and also make it look better taken care of.
Home Staging for Sale
There are many statistics that conclude that even partial staging of a home will typically help it sell faster including a few highlights below from the National Association of Realtors:
- 77% of Buyers’ agents said staging a home made it easier for a buyer to visualize the property as a future home.
- Staging the living room for buyers was found to be most important (55 percent), followed by staging the master bedroom (51 percent), and staging the kitchen (41 percent).
- Thirty-eight percent of sellers’ agents said they stage all sellers’ homes prior to listing them for sale.
- The most common rooms that are staged include the living room (83 percent), kitchen (76 percent), master bedroom (69 percent), and the dining room (66 percent).
Arizona Transitions believes staging your home is as important as cleaning it. Time and again, a properly staged home sells more quickly and at top dollar when the home is staged properly.
What To Do With All of Our Belongings?
Sorting and Dispersing
Having a Senior Move Manager assist you with sorting and organizing all your belongings and things you have collected over the years will be a great benefit for you. They will provide extensive experience and care in the best ways and methods to use to proceed through your belongings in a manner that is compassionate about the process of sorting through memories while respecting your budget and completing the job in an efficient manner. The Senior Moving Manager will also keep an inventory of all your household goods to ensure safe delivery and accounting for each item.
As part of the Sorting and Organizing process, the Senior Move Manager will help you make decisions on what items will be relocated to family members or friends, what items will be donated, possible items for sale and the items that will need to be disposed of. They will also supervise the process and set up the logistics for making sure each item gets to its intended destination.
One Day Move and SetUp: How it works
One Day Move and Set-up
For your actual move, your Senior Move Manager will know the
reputable moving companies that will be able to help you best and stay on
schedule. Arizona Transitions will supervise the entire process starting with
scheduling your actual moving date and making sure all your items are safe and
ready for transport.
They will coordinate with your new place or residence and Move-In Coordinator if you are moving to a Retirement Community or Assisted Living facility. This will ensure a smooth transition during the unloading and unpacking process.
On your actual moving day, your Senior Move Manager will supervise the actual loading, transport and unloading of all your items to go to your new home. Along with the Senior Move Manager’s staff, they will then supervise the setup of your new home including all the unpacking, setting up the kitchen, other furniture throughout in its predesignated space, and make sure you are able to relax in your new home typically all in one day.
While there may be extenuating circumstances that prohibit a complete one day move and set-up, settling you in your new home in one day is always Arizona Transitions’ objective so you have the least amount of inconvenience possible.
How Senior Move Managers Help You Downsize: Moving
New
Home Planning
The first step a Senior and/or their family will typically need to take is to decide where they are going to move to and know what the basic floor plan will look like. When your Senior Move Manager sits down with you they will look at the floor plan for your new home and help you decide what furniture and belongings you will be able to take with you. They will design a plan that will help you see ahead of time how different furniture pieces will fit and the best way to arrange them.
This will save you a significant
amount of time and energy as you will not have to guess so much at what you can
really take with you and will alleviate the stress of wondering if your items
will actually fit or not.
Professional Packing
A Senior Move Manager and his or her staff will be able to provide you with efficient packing services that will make it easier for your household goods to be transported, while keeping them safe. They will also label all the boxes and containers in a clear manner to keep better track of them and be able to set things up more quickly in your new home.
This service will usually save you a tremendous amount of time and energy as Senior Move Managers will know all the best ways to pack your items quickly and efficiently, while also knowing the best methods to keep them safe from breakage and damage. With all the glassware, china or other delicate items, professional packers will also have the appropriate packing materials on hand to pack these items with the best care for safe transport.
Another benefit to having a Senior Move Manager supervise
the packing for you is that you will have an inventory list of all your items
for easy reference and location. You also will not have to be lifting and
moving heavy boxes either.