You’ve Closed on Your Home. Now What?

You’ve Closed on your new Florida Retirement home. Now what? You’re surrounded by boxes, and don’t know where to begin. What’s your strategy?
So you’re finally in your new Florida Retirement home in an Active Adult Community in Florida like Vienna Square or Traditions at Lake Ruby in Winter Haven, perhaps even Lake Ashton, and you’re surrounded by piles of boxes, tired and glad that your relocation is about to end.
To complete your moving adventure to your favorite Florida Retirement Community, however, you need to unpack your belongings and make your new place feel like YOUR home.
Where do you start?
No matter how much you want to get it over with, there are three important things to do before you can actually start unpacking. Moving into a FloridaHomesFor55.com community can be easy. Devise a plan and stick to it. Here are a few suggestions.
1. Clean and prepare your new Florida Retirement home. First things first! It’s easier to wipe down shelves and out drawers, clean windows and mop floors/vacuum rugs before your belongings are in place. Before your items arrive, make sure your home is spotless and free of all debris. If you can’t get to your new retirement home in Florida early enough to do a thorough cleaning, consider hiring professional cleaners like Orchid Cleaners or Magic Genie in Winter Haven to do the job for you.
2. Inspect and organize your belongings. When the boxes arrive to your resale home in Lake Ashton, check all the delivered boxes and household items against your inventory sheet to make sure nothing is damaged or missing. Accidents occur and it’s best to know about them before the moving team departs. Then have each of your possessions taken to the room where it belongs. If everything was properly marked and labeled, sorting your items will be a piece of cake.
3. Set major furniture and appliances. As you age, it may become more difficult to move items around the home. So, before the moving team departs, ask them to position your large furniture pieces first. You’ll need a place to sit down and relax. Plan ahead. Have an interior design readily available so you don’t end up moving heavy pieces around several times.
You’re retired! There are no deadlines to meet, so you can set your own pace when unpacking and decorating your new place — just unpack in order of priority without procrastinating.
If you stay organized, set reasonable goals, clean after every unpacking phase, and dispose of the packing materials in a safe and eco-friendly manner, your new Florida Retirement home will become your very own masterpiece. FloridaHomesfor55.com is a great website to find your next Florida Retirement home in an active adult community like Vienna Square, Lake Ashton, Traditions at Lake Ruby and Carlsberg Estates near Lake Suzanne. Give Lori Blackburn Raath, Realtor a call, 863-409-6899.

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