“Downsizing has been a huge part of our business. With my clients, I stress the importance of knowing when to downsize your home,” says Suzanne Rentz, a top 1% ranking realtor in Tulsa, OK. “I work with people all the time who delayed, and their home became too big toContinue Reading

As I wrote in the Decluttering post, our downsizing plan put a lot of our things in storage. What wasn’t used to stage our house in Ohio was put in storage in Tulsa. When our house sold, the rest of our things were moved and everything was consolidated into one large storageContinue Reading

My wife and I had decided to downsize from our four-bedroom home in Ohio when I retired. By the time of the retirement party our house had been on the market for four weeks. The first wave of decluttering happened when the house was being staged for viewing. Rooms andContinue Reading

Americans love their large homes. They are grand and there is room for everyone and everything. The size of the American house has increased steadily over the decades. In 1970, average home size was 1,500 square feet. Today the average home is 2,600 square feet. This is a 73% increaseContinue Reading