Think about something for a moment:
Of all the things you have in your house that are...
- stored in a box,
- tucked away in a closet,
- shelved in the garage,
- allocated to the basement,
- in a pile to repair, mend or recycle,
- and even rooms or areas that are tasked strictly for storing things that you don't use regularly or even ever.
Now ask yourself,
- If you did not have the physical space to house these items what would you do with them?
- Would you pay to store them elsewhere? How much would you pay to do so?
What weighed heavily on me, back in September 2010, was the quote from the mover for storing the balance of the possessions left in the house.
In order to empty the house it would have cost me (in addition to the move to storage) $750.00 per month, times that by the number of months the house would be on the market, (an unknown value) and I quickly calculated that my best decision, at the time, would be to leave the boxes in the house.
This didn't sit very well with me since how would that look when a potential buyer came through and saw our collection of boxes? However I needed to make peace with that and we did our best in storing the boxes in such a way not to detract from the house.
Plus our time overseas (initially) was to be for about a year so sending it over was not even on the table.
At that time, I didn't question the contents that my amazing team of friends came and lovingly packed up for me. Not only did I have a tight time constraint to get this done and back on the airplane, everything that I did not let go of retained a high level of value, especially emotional value.
I had attracted the most perfect people to help me move forward with the above tasks and I also attracted the most perfect people to be caregivers of our property in our absence. Our bags were tremendously lighter because of that.
Selling property, can be a true test of patience. And when that property is not selling it can be a pop quiz on one's self worth.
When pricing your property you factor in the physical attributes, location-location-location, current market information, features, upgrades, amenities, etc etc., blended along with the figure of what you value your property at.
Anyone who has ever bought or sold a home knows that you will only get for the property what someone will pay for it. Both the seller and the buyer want to manifest their best deal. From a Universal Law perspective you may cancelling each other out to a certain extent.
Even with the intention of selling I/we still had to figure out how do let go of something so big, (literally) the size of a house?
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