Rightsize Your Home (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780992435707)

Like many thousands of mature Australians, you are not alone. Transitioning from your family home can feel incredibly overwhelming and stir up mixed emotions from the past. Downsizing can be difficult or even overwhelming if you have lived in your home for 20, 30 or 40 years. It's a rite of passage almost no one will escape: the difficult, emotional journey of downsizing your or your aging parents' home. Belinda Woolrych, Downsizing Expert, Downsizing Adviser, & Author, has written a comprehensive and insightful downsizing book: Rightsize Your Home: The Empty Nester's Guide to a Stress-Free Downsize

This book is for you if:

• You are an empty nester looking to Downsize from the family home
• Finding your home no longer serves the purpose you bought it for
• You have retired and ready to embrace the next stage of life
• You are baby boomers who are helping their parents downsize
• Are emptying a house after the death of a parent
• Need to declutter and don't know how to begin
• Are searching for a 'downsizing bible'

What you will learn:

1. How to Understand the right time, moving roadblocks, and how to be ready for your downsize
2. 7 Secrets to Enjoying Moving from The Family Home
3. How to start a conversation with parents who have mixed feelings about moving
4. How to deal with differences of opinion among siblings
5. How to set the flight plan and where to fly - residential purchase, retirement living, over 55s, build a granny flat, sea change or a tree change
6. How to Source and Connect with your Support Downsizing team
7. The best ways to approach selling, buying, decluttering, packing and moving
8. The "Rightsize Your Home Framework with 5 Steps, advice, practical tips to coordinate your entire downsize
9. How to sort your belongings at a methodical, sensitive and steady pace including valuing family treasures, what to donate, toss or sell
10. How to prepare your home for sale and maximising your profit
11. "Rightsizing" Financial Planning Considerations and Tips
12. Success stories from empty-nesters who embraced change and are now enjoying the 'Rightsize' lifestyle

This book includes 9 Resources:

1. To-do lists
2. Downsizing guides
3. Example floor plan
4. Decluttering hours chart
5. Styling hours allocation chart
6. Custom inspection checklists
7. Moving checklist
8. A pre-market preparation calendar template
9. Case studies of empty nesters who embraced change and are now enjoying the 'Rightsize' lifestyle