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How to Do More Packing and Preparing For A Move In Less Time

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Are you packing to move in a rush? When you’re on a tight deadline, and you have to get everything out, your stress can skyrocket as you wonder how you’ll get things done. While this task can be challenging, it doesn’t have to be as difficult as you may think. There are many ways you can make things easier, especially when it comes to packing and preparing. If you haven’t already used the tips below, incorporate them into your prep, and you’ll be ready to move before you know it.

1. Use What You Have

If you don’t have time to buy packing supplies and carefully wrap your belongings, use what you have. Towels can easily cover plates, socks can hold silverware, and clothes can cover other breakables. This won’t only save you time, but it will also save you money, all without putting your items at risk of breaking. Another great way to save time is to use boxes you have around the house to pack belongings. Even boxes from deliveries can be re-purposed as long as they’re in good shape.

2. Keep Clothes Hanging

When it comes to packing clothes that are hanging, don’t bother taking them down and folding them. Instead, use a rubber band to tie a group of hangers (with clothes on them) together. After this, cut a hole in the bottom of a trash bag and place it over the group of clothes you just tied together. Either hang these in a wardrobe box or carefully fold them in a group and place into a box.

3. Make Fast Decisions

A time crunch when moving means you need to make quick decisions when it comes to packing your things. If you don’t use or need something, place it in a box for donation or the trash. Give yourself three seconds to decide for each item, and you’ll be able to get through your entire home in no time. If you have a lot of things to donate or throw away, make sure you plan out a day for them to be picked up before you leave.

4. Don’t Overthink

Overthinking when packing can cost you hours of precious time when you need to get out of your house. The goal is to simply get everything moved into boxes, so don’t stress about organization and detailed labeling. While you should write the room on the side of the box, you don’t have to be more detailed than that. You can sort everything out once you get to your destination and have time to spend organizing.

5. Forward Your Mail

The easiest way to make sure you get your mail is by forwarding it. Fortunately, you can do this online with the United States Post Office in just a few minutes. However, don’t forget to change your official address once you move to ensure you continue to receive your mail once forwarding has ended.

6. Recruit Help Near Me

Whether you hire movers or friends, help can cut down the time it takes to pack your things by hours or even days. Even if you just have help with disassembling furniture, the extra hands can make all the difference.

Beating Your Deadline to Move

Packing in a rush can easily be done if you put your mind and maximum effort into it. Don’t be afraid to ask for help and avoid procrastinating to ensure you stay on track. Fortunately, with the tips above, the ask will be easier, and you can get to your destination on time.

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Productive Habits

10 Habits of the Top-Producing Real Estate Agents

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Whether you’re trying to buy or sell a house, or you have ambitions of becoming a real estate agent, it pays to understand what distinguishes the top agents from the mediocre ones. Here are ten habits that you will tend…

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How To Help Your Client Prepare For Moving Into A New Home

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There’s nothing quite like the magic of watching new homeowners’ faces as you hand them the keys to their new house. It’s like watching a child’s face on Christmas morning as he tears into brightly wrapped boxes.

A possible snag to this glorious day is that your clients may not know how to move in. They will turn to you, their trusty real estate agent, for tips. Well, here they are, so let the move-in begin!

1. Give Them A Calendar And Mark Two Months From Moving Date

Your clients might have never moved before, or they could be veteran movers. It always helps to organize a move on paper before the real work begins. You’ll need to designate aspects two months out such as:

Decide if they will do it themselves or hire a moving company
If they hire a moving company, they’ll need to get quotes from Las Vegas moving companies and book it two months out
Sort their things into “keep” boxes, and “donate-or-Salvation Army” boxes
Gather important papers, pictures, and precious keepsakes into a box that will go with them in the car

2. Mark On The Calendar One Month From Moving Date

One month out is when the real work begins. Your clients will need boxes, bubble wrap, labels or markers, and packing tape. They will also need:

To cancel or forward any publications
To get the bank, insurance, medical and dental, school records if they have kids and any other records that will need transferring
To alert the utility companies as well as cable, Internet and any landline phones to the move date
To change of address with the post office, credit card companies, and banks
To begin packing an “Open First” box, filled with personal hygiene items, a change of clothes, shoes, paper plates, plastic utensils, paper towels, bath towels, soap, shampoo, bath paper, trash bags, and snacks.

3. Three Weeks From Moving Date

Either digitally or on a piece of paper, make up a master list of packed boxes and which rooms they go into in the new house. Going from room to room, pack it out.
Label the boxes on all four sides as well as the top and bottom. Place the boxes in an unused room for ease of loading the truck.
Notify whoever will take care of the kids and any pets during the move.
Begin emptying the fridge and freezer. Whatever you don’t eat before moving day, pack in a cooler with ice to go with you in the car.

4. One Week From Moving Day

This is the most hectic week. Your clients are too stressed to remember something. Mark their calendar so they will confirm the moving date with the moving company and alert whoever will watch the kids and pets.

Set aside what movers won’t transport such as half-full paint cans, paint thinners, and gasoline powered items like the leaf blower. These will go in the car.
Notify a cleaning company to clean the house after the truck is loaded.

5. Moving Day

Remember to take food, because everything will be packed up. Go from room to room making sure nothing is left behind. After the cleaners have cleaned the house, leave the keys on the kitchen counter and lock the doors.

Happy moving!

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Real Estate Online Marketing

5 Online Marketing Tips Every Real Estate Professional Should Know About

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Nowadays, when people need products and information regarding products, they go online. Therefore, as real estate professional, you will want to ensure you have a presence online so that you can be ready to help prospective clients get the products they want.

Here are online marketing tips every real estate professional should know about:

1. Using Local Content

One essential advice for marketing online is coming up with content that assists home sellers and buyers. Both sellers and buyers typically spend lots of time looking up the selling and buying process, particularly for their first time. Therefore, teach them the basics.

In addition to educating your market, develop content for your target locations. People relocating to new locations will want to know events, schools, fun facts, neighborhoods, statistics, and more. If you provide new home buyers with this content, they are going to want your services.

2. Working With Local Services Professionals

As a real estate agent, you are your clients gateway into and through the moving process. it is imperative that you know the local service providers that can assist your client with whatever needs they may encounter. You should be able to help them find trusted move-out cleaning services, local movers, home staging, appliance repair, roofers, foundation specialists, and this is just barely scratching the surface! If you don’t already have these connections, start with the chamber of commerce and look into other networking events. These businesses WANT your client’s business.

3. Having a Responsive Website Design

A majority of the population is viewing online content through mobile devices, and you want to ensure that your website is mobile-friendly. Prospective homes are inherently visual, and you need to ensure the best images can be seen to get prospective clients. Hence, you must have a fluid design such that your text and images can seamlessly transfer from traditional computers to mobile devices.

Due to the accessibility of your website on numerous devices, you will get more views, leads, and sales. Additionally, beautiful cover art can make your mobile page and social media profile attractive.

4. Get Reviews

After completion of successful housing transactions, it is crucial to leverage the developed relationships to build your reputation. In addition to having a profile on the top home listing sites, request your clients to review your work online. These sites get millions of visits each month, and this traffic is meant for real estate professionals such as yourself.

Use the best reviews as testimonials for your site. Claiming your real estate business on Google as well as acquiring reviews there can also aid your business in getting higher search engine rankings.

5. Use Attractive Images

Homes are meant to be revealed from both outside and inside. Hence, use the front end of your online presence to show homes in this way. Remember to add links to the images to help people access particular information of the homes you have listed, upcoming events, or mobile app. If you need help taking better pictures for your listings, check out this article.

Cover photos showing one of your top properties can be effective on platforms such as LinkedIn, Twitter, and Google+.

6. Obtain Emails

Converting a home visitor into a buyer may be hard on the same day, but capturing their contact information, especially their emails will offer you the opportunity to impress them by showing them your expertise as a real estate professional. Real estate marketing through email is an effective tool for giving crucial tips, open house invitations, and periodical market updates to relocating persons.

People may not be prepared to sell or buy immediately, but when the time comes, you will be on top of their list because you have portrayed yourself as the market authority by continually giving them useful information.

Conclusion

Online marketing is an inexpensive way to reach potential clients, and when used ideally, it can increase leads and sales.

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