Lee Aigue

How NOT to Downsize Lee Aigue

Are you ready to downsize? Of course not, who would be? Yet, 10,000 Boomers A DAY are retiring and most will decide, eventually, to not stay in their current home. Downsizing isn't for the faint of heart, or for the unprepared. This 16-step book serves as a humorous, timely cautionary account of what happens when you try to downsize when you aren't really ready. Allow the pain, frustration, agony, and perspective of previous downsizers to show you a better way. Coverage includes expected, and unexpected, topics and insights: Are you prepared to sort, decide, and discard items you don't really want or need?Are you prepared to prepare your house for sale?Are you ready to sell you home?What about adult children living with you?What about stuff you hold from adult children not living with you?Are you ready to avoid a garage sale?How can you pick a new house or city?Can you manage negotiations over the sale of your home?Many books cover, in considerable detail, the planning points that attempt to answer those questions. This book reveals the pitfalls in rapid form so as to serve as a worthy warning from the voices of experience. Read and learn!Read the book! Anticipate likely problems and sandpaper moments in the process. Smile at your working wisdom. Emerge from your soon-to-come downsizing happy and pleased. You've been forewarned