“With all the transitions taking place in my life the sessions helped compartmentalize the areas that could be contained. I am able to accomplish more in a timely manner. Erin, not only did you help structure my filing system, you instilled in me a belief that I could do it with ease and grace.”
Has your nest emptied?
Are you ready to create a simpler and more streamlined lifestyle?
Do you have multiple homes that you want to merge into one smaller space?
These are all times when you might feel completely overwhelmed and need help navigating and managing the complex logistical and emotional process involved in Home Downsizing. That's why you need to call the Living Peace Home Downsizing Team.
What makes our Home Downsizing Services different:
- All our Home Downsizing Team members are specifically trained, compassionate, and committed professional organizers.
- We are aware of the emotional challenges and overwhelm involved in large and sensitive organizing projects and life transitions.
- We have a proven ability for excellent communication, effective collaboration, and established trust amongst our team members, which leads to a powerful and reliable experience and outcome for you.
- ALL of our Home Downsizing Team members are professional organizers in their own right, and bring with them a wealth of knowledge and experience to support your project and make it run smoothly.
What our Home Downsizing Services can offer:
- Experienced Home Downsizing Project Managers: You will be assigned an experienced Home Downsizing Project Manager who will be your primary contact throughout your project. She will be on-site consistently during your project to supervise our team and the home downsizing project, coordinate with outside vendors, and communicate with you about the progress and your needs.
- Vendor Referrals: We can connect you to appropriate appraisers, moving & packing companies, donation resources, trash & disposal resources, real estate agents, professional stagers, auction houses.
- Inventory Assessment videos and/or digital photos: Digital Photos and/or videos of sorted items can be provided for inventory or assessment purposes.
- Secure hosting of online video and photos: Videos of progress and any specific items can be uploaded to a password-protected website to allow family members anywhere to see items, make requests and decisions about what they would like.
- Fully Insured: All our Home Downsizing Team members are fully insured.
What we are NOT and WHY it matters:
A random group of warm-bodies or college students just “moving stuff around.”
Unlike the random collection of warm bodies that you might hire from your local college, our team of professional organizers KNOWS how to effectively sort and move through such a project from beginning to end. We bring an enormous level of experience, honor, and compassion to every thing we touch and every action we take as part of your home downsizing project. These are the loved items of a lifetime, and they should be treated with appropriate honor. Our professional organizing team understands that.
An opinionated group of friends and family with multiple agendas.
Have you ever had friends and family try to help you with large and important projects and discovered far too many opinions and agendas clouding the experience and the outcome? That is another reason to hire our Home Downsizing Team. We are professionals, who are commited to achieving the best results for YOU in a supportive and non-judgmental manner. We are unattached to the items and the outcome allowing us to guide your home downsizing project with integrity and authenticity toward the outcome that is right for your situation.
What to expect from our Home Downsizing Services:
- We start with an Initial Consultation to assess your needs and get an overview of the home downsizing project. Frequently this will include meeting with the family members or other involved parties and discussing expectations.
- We create your Home Downsizing Project Plan which includes an outline of the major milestones, the necessary steps for each of us to complete in order to succeed, recommended vendors to provide additonal services, and an estimated timeline for the work.
- We begin Team and Resource Coordination. We work with you and our organizers to schedule either one-on-one or organizing team days. You have final selection of all outside vendors, but we can also provide coordination and scheduling of those resources if requested.
- Supervision of project milestones. We prefer to have you or your trusted representative available onsite for all one-on-one organizing days and some section of any team organizing day. This insures that your needs and wishes are being considered and respected, and that you get to know and appreciate the efforts of the team in their progress.
- Project Wrap-up and Completion. We aim to satisfy all your needs, and if you choose to have our Home Downsizing Project Manager oversee outside vendors involved in the project, then she will remain committed and available to you through all steps of distributing, donating, and preparing the property for sale. We hope to be both a trusted resource and a support network for you during this challenging life transition.