With over a decade of experience as a Property Makeover and Change Specialist, Belinda has spent many years helping transform homes and lives. You will find all aspects of Downsizing covered by Belinda and her special guest, Rich Harvey, Founder, and CEO of Propertybuyer, in this podcast, I Want to Rightsize, But How and When Do I Find My New Home??? including Q&A asked by seniors in a friendly, relaxed environment, your home!

You will learn:

* Why would I think about Rightsizing now or finding my new home?

* I've been keeping an eye out on the real estate and there is nowhere to go; I can't find my new home.

* Everything seems so expensive

* What does a great buyer's agent do? How can they help me find my new home?

* How and when will the property market recover from the COVID-19 crisis?

* Top tips for finding the Rightsize Home of your dreams

* Q&A

Watch the Workshop here:

About Rich Harvey:

Rich is the CEO and Founder of Property buyer. A licensed real estate buyer? agent, property investor, and professional economist with over 20 years of experience in the property industry, Rich and his team help buyers find, appraise and negotiate the ideal property for their needs. Property buyer? has assisted over 3000 buyers and won 34 awards for excellence. Rich has served as the President of REBAA?(Real Estate Buyers Agent Association) for four years and to improve the professionalism and standards within the buyers? agents industry.

About Belinda:

Belinda Woolrych, author of Rightsize Your Home The Empty Nester's Guide to a Stress-Free Downsize contributes to the community by her Rightsize Your Home Online Workshop.

For the upcoming Rightsize Your Home Online Workshop and Events, click here.

Disclaimer:

Belinda Woolrych makes no representation and gives no warranty as to the accuracy of the preceding information and does not accept any responsibility for any errors or inaccuracies in, or omissions from, the information contained herein (whether negligent or otherwise) and shall not be liable for any loss or damage howsoever arising as a result of any person acting or refraining from acting in reliance on any information contained herein. No listener/workshop attendee shall rely solely on the information contained in this document as it does not purport to be comprehensive or to render specific advice.

This disclaimer does not purport to exclude any warranties implied by law that may not be lawfully excluded. This workshop (which includes any workbook) is only for the use of the intended recipient/s and is confidential and/or privileged. Belinda Woolrych shall not be liable for any errors, omissions, viruses, loss, and/or damage arising from using, opening, or transmitting this workshop.

With over a decade of experience as a Property Makeover and Change Specialist, Belinda has spent many years helping transform homes and lives. You will find all aspects of Downsizing covered by Chad, the Managing Director of?FortemMedia and Belinda?in this podcast, ?How can I Sell my Home with No 'Open for Inspections' & What are Virtual Inspections???including Q&A asked by seniors in a friendly, relaxed environment, your home!?

You will learn:

* Why do some not like open for inspections?

* Why do we do open for inspections?

* How do we do open for inspections in the virtual world?

* What results can we achieve with virtual inspections?

* Top tips for successful virtual inspections

* Q&A

Watch the Workshop here:

About Chad:

Chad is the Managing Director of?FortemMedia. FortemMedia is a digital agency that builds compelling digital campaigns through micro content created and valuable data insights gained. Our focus in on producing real results for our clients through the creation of video & photo content that evokes emotion.

About Belinda:

Belinda Woolrych, author of Rightsize Your Home ? The Empty Nester?s Guide to a Stress-Free Downsize ? contributes to the community by her Rightsize Your Home Online Workshop.?

For upcoming?Rightsize Your Home Online Workshop?and Events,?click here.

Disclaimer:

Belinda Woolrych makes no representation and gives no warranty as to the accuracy of the preceding information and does not accept any responsibility for any errors or inaccuracies in, or omissions from, the information contained herein (whether negligent or otherwise) and shall not be liable for any loss or damage howsoever arising as a result of any person acting or refraining from acting in reliance on any information contained herein. No listener/workshop attendee shall rely solely on the information contained in this document as it does not purport to be comprehensive or to render specific advice.

This disclaimer does not purport to exclude any warranties implied by law which may not be lawfully excluded. This workshop (which includes any workbook) is only for the use of the intended recipient/s and is confidential and/or privileged. Belinda Woolrych shall not be liable for any errors, omissions, viruses, loss and/or damage arising from using, opening or transmitting this workshop.

What are Common Downsizing Roadblocks?

We’ve been through the thoughts and feelings and also the profile of a typical client. Now what about the actual challenges that they're faced with? Here's some popular downsizing roadblocks from past clients. These points often come up in many of our speaking events too. Feel free to share anything in the comment section that you find is a downsizing roadblock because I would pretty much say you’re not alone and it is always good to help others.

* Home maintenance

* Finding someone to trust

* The cost of outsourcing

* Kids won't go or you don't want them to go 

* Too much stuff or attachment to things

With over a decade of experience as a Property Makeover and Change Specialist, Belinda has spent many years helping transform homes and lives. You will find all aspects of Downsizing covered by Belinda in this podcast, "What are the Downsizing Roadblocks, How do I Move Them and What is on Your Bucket List?" including Q&A asked by seniors in a friendly, relaxed environment, your home!

You will learn:

* What are the downsizing roadblock signs to watch out for

* What are the downsizing roadblocks

* How to reduce/move/eliminate the downsizing roadblocks

* What is in your bucket list?

* Top Tips & Further Questions

Watch the Workshop here:

RELATED BLOG

THE 4-STEP DOWNSIZING ROAD MAP

ABOUT BELINDA

Belinda Woolrych, author of Rightsize Your Home: The Empty Nester’s Guide to a Stress-Free Downsize, contributes every fortnight Tuesday at 4PM to the community by her Rightsize Your Home Online Workshop.

For upcoming Rightsize Your Home Online Workshop and Events, click here.

DISCLAIMER

Belinda Woolrych makes no representation and gives no warranty as to the accuracy of the preceding information and does not accept any responsibility for any errors or inaccuracies in, or omissions from, the information contained herein (whether negligent or otherwise) and shall not be liable for any loss or damage howsoever arising as a result of any person acting or refraining from acting in reliance on any information contained herein. No listener/workshop attendee shall rely solely on the information contained in this document as it does not purport to be comprehensive or to render specific advice.

This disclaimer does not purport to exclude any warranties implied by law which may not be lawfully excluded. This workshop (which includes any workbook) is only for the use of the intended recipient/s and is confidential and/or privileged. Belinda Woolrych shall not be liable for any errors, omissions, viruses, loss and/or damage arising from using, opening or transmitting this workshop.

What is a Normal Maintenance Program for your Garden to Create 'Impact' Without Wasting Any Money?

Of course depending on the size of the garden, a good, well-maintained lawn is key to presentation. Make sure your lawns are kept well in the growing season and mown at least every two weeks, as a minimum. Again, it defines the areas that make the home presentable.

With regard to gardening maintenance, everything is budget-oriented. We recommend to tend to a garden every two weeks, but most of the time, it’s a monthly visit to the gardens to shape hedge plants and manage all over health. When we set up a maintenance program, we prefer to schedule it every two weeks. Every second visit will be an extended period to tend to plant health, trim hedges etc. Of course, depending on the size of the property, what sort of garden it is, how many plants there are, we will bring ladders, etc.

The weeds obviously, grow as fast as plants. We make sure plants are growing with each other and keep them under control. Plants are scheduled to get more attention at the right time of year and cut backs in the winter months and get everything set up for the springtime – we mulch, fertilise and boost. We can get the garden kickstarted if it's not maintained, but my tip is to stay on top of it monthly.

Maintaining your garden regularly means you’re not wasting any money because you’re not doing rescue work. Preventative maintenance is much better than rework and gardening, if you can prevent plants dying or prevent the rescuing it is a lot better for all involved including the plants and more opportunity for the plants to stay healthy by not having to cope with the cutting back. It’s also a lot more cost effective to maintain regularly rather than paying to rescue in one big effort.

If you are a Rightsizer or downsizing is on the radar and you feel you’re keeping up with it, think about the future. No one particularly likes sore knees and getting down and attending to this stuff for hours and hours and hours, and it gets some harder to do. So if you can even take a little bit of the stress off by having some help, do it! You’re then also heading towards a good presentation processing in the medium term anyway.

Belinda and her special guest speaker, Bevan Pulley of The Professional Landscapers answer "How to Create Impact and the Wow Factor in your Garden" asked by seniors in a friendly, relaxed environment: Your Home!

You will learn:

* How to Assess the State of your Garden

* What are the Typical Problems Bevan Sees

* What is a Normal Maintenance Program for your Garden to Create 'Impact' Without Wasting Any Money?

* What are Great WOW Factors All Garden Owners can Do?

* Further Questions

Watch the Workshop here:

Download the Garden Maintenance Free Resource here

Guest Speaker

Bevan Pulley is the Manager of The Professional Landscapers. They specialise in stunning landscape construction and installation, meticulous garden maintenance and exterior property detailing.

ABOUT BELINDA

Belinda Woolrych, author of Rightsize Your Home: The Empty Nester’s Guide to a Stress-Free Downsize, contributes every fortnight Tuesday at 4PM to the community by her 

TOP TIPS FOR HOW TO SELL YOUR HOME RIGHT NOW

Tip 1: Know what motivates you to sell, sell for you

A lot of people are very much motivated by their personal finances. If you’re selling your big family home, you’re trying to take some of that money out of the bricks and mortar to invest it into potentially an investment property, maybe you’re moving into a smaller property or a retirement village or even shares. Whatever motivates you, you want to get that money out somehow. The only way to get your money out is by selling a prepared home. It allows you to springboard to get that done efficiently and effectively in this market.

Tip 2: When YOU are ready

It's important to sell your home when you're able to make all the decisions and you are the one in control.

That means, if you wait too long, your kids or consultants are having to come in and help you or do it for you. Then you may not get the benefit of that change in the same way, you would have a better retirement if you do it earlier than that scenario and you are able to choose the exact right property at the next step for you.

The last chapter of my book talks about success stories of people who've jumped in and done it. If you can get more out of retirement and you can see that maybe your home is not serving the purpose you bought it for.

Top 3. Present well

Presenting well really comes down to, in my experience, having a look at what you have: Showing off the bits of key pieces of furniture that you love, what looks great at home in your house, and packing up all the memories. 

Top 4. Buy & Sell – remember changeover

Well, I certainly think that no matter what happens, if you’re buying and selling in the same market, say you put your house on the market for sale, you get 10% over what you’re asking chances are, you’re going to have to pay 10% more than what the person selling their unit was asking. It works out to be the same. The good thing about selling a big home right now, and going into something that’s smaller is the gap. Prices of large homes are, as we’ve seen, still being supported by the market. So just trust that if you’re buying and selling in the same market, it’s going serve you well.

Downsizing expert Belinda Woolrych held a Q&A with Martha MacLaurin-Wood, LREA and talked about "How Do I Even Sell My Home Right Now?". With over a decade of experience as a Property Makeover and Change Specialist, Belinda has spent many years helping transform homes and lives. You will find all aspects of Downsizing covered by Belinda in this podcast including Q&A asked by seniors in a friendly, relaxed environment, your home!

You will learn:

* How is Real Estate Working Right Now?

* What are the Typical Fears for Selling Your Home in this Environment?

* What Good Agents are Doing Differently with Changes in Auctions and Private Treaty Processes

* Why would you Sell Your Home in this Market?

* Q&A

Watch How to Sell Your Home Workshop here:

https://youtu.be/wz4Qeph_Ga4

About Martha:

How is ‘Rightsizing’ different to ‘Downsizing’?

Let me explain: Downsizing (verb). to make (something) smaller. Rightsizing (verb). to convert (something) to an appropriate or optimum size.

There’s an assumption that when children reach adulthood, they will have their own lives and move out of the family home. Their parents will instinctively ‘downsize’ and discard the possessions they’ve accumulated over the years, sell the house, and move into a smaller home that’s easier to maintain. Often it does not happen this way and we see people choose to live in their homes until the very end. The question is, is downsizing the right decision for all and what are the options?

Ultimately, your next move isn’t about downsizing or upsizing: it’s about what I like to call ‘Rightsizing’. It’s about minimising your stress levels and living in a property that suits your current needs. This could mean purchasing a smaller private property, living in an over 55’s community, a retirement village or even building a new granny flat in your backyard!

EXCERPT FROM THE WORKSHOP When is the Right Time to Leave the Nest? (Rightsizing)

I thought the best way to talk about this particular subject: "When is the right time to leave the nest?" or Rightsizing is to actually compare it to over a decade’s worth of our downsizing clients, and as I’ve met so many people doing this in this demographic, I wanted to talk about them and how their feelings are so then you might resonate with them.

I found our typical clients are quite typically around 55 plus, they are family home owners, most of our clients have had children that have either left home, or there may be one left – sometimes their children keep coming back and generally our clients are still residing in their family home.

When I challenge the clients and say, how does home feel for you? Is your home serving the purpose you bought it for? Generally the answer is no. So the home is often too large, there are rooms that are not being used and the actual clients themselves normally only utilise about a third of the actual house. They also find that the kids don’t visit as often as they thought and they actually don’t need the space.

With over a decade of experience as a Property Makeover and Change Specialist, Belinda has spent many years helping transform homes and lives. You will find all aspects of Downsizing covered by Belinda in this podcast, "When is the Right Time to Leave the Nest?" (Rightsizing) including Q&A asked by seniors in a friendly, relaxed environment, your home!

You will learn:

* These are our typical clients and their feelings, is this me? 

* What happens when people do nothing, would that happen to me and my family?

* What are their challenges, are they yours?

* The Rightsizing Decision

Watch the Rightsizing workshop:

RELATED BLOG:

DOWNSIZING OR RIGHTSIZING – HELPING EMPTY NESTERS MAKE THE RIGHT MOVE

ABOUT BELINDA:

Belinda Woolrych, author of Rightsize Your Home: The Empty Nester’s Guide to a Stress-Free Downsize, contributes every fortnight Tuesday at 4PM to the community by her Rightsize Your Home Online Workshop.

For upcoming Rightsize Your Home Online Workshop and Events, click here.

DISCLAIMER

With over a decade of experience as a Property Makeover and Change Specialist, Belinda has spent many years helping transform homes and lives. You will find all aspects of Downsizing covered by Belinda in this workshop, “How to Get In Control of Your Downsize in this Current Environment” including Q&A asked by seniors in a friendly, relaxed environment, your home!

You will learn:

- What is the current environment?

- How do I get in control?

- How do I realistically judge the right timing for this?

- Where does this leave me?

- Further questions

JOIN Belinda Woolrych online every Friday at 10:00am for her RIGHTSIZE YOUR HOME ONLINE WORKSHOPS.

Register here: https://www.belindawoolrych.com/rightsize-your-home-workshop-waitlist/

With over a decade of experience as a Property Makeover and Change Specialist, Belinda has spent many years helping transform homes and lives. You will find all aspects of Downsizing covered by Belinda in this workshop, “How to Get In Control of Your Downsize in this Current Environment” including Q&A asked by seniors in a friendly, relaxed environment, your home!

You will learn:

- What is the current environment?

- How do I get in control?

- How do I realistically judge the right timing for this?

- Where does this leave me?

- Further questions

JOIN Belinda Woolrych online every Friday at 10:00am for her RIGHTSIZE YOUR HOME ONLINE WORKSHOPS.

Register here: https://www.belindawoolrych.com/rightsize-your-home-workshop-waitlist/

Top Tip in How to Get In Control of Your Downsize in this Current Environment (Covid Environment Edition)

How do you get in control of your downsize? We’ve had major changes in the environment around us. We have come from a very controlled situation, potentially, where we were very familiar with everything. But now, how do we get back in control?

There’s no doubt that this pandemic startled us, and slowed us down. Things were happening at such an incredible rate we really just kept having these changes, bombarded into our lives, daily, sometimes hourly.

What we need to do is to ensure that we navigate this and stick to putting ourselves in the centre of process. Getting back in control of your downsize, means getting back to knowing what’s happening around you, and putting yourself at the centre of your life, and at the same time, navigating all of these new changes. I don't feel that we need to change our goals and our vision of our lives for the rightsize to retirement.

It really shouldn’t change how you feel about life and get yourself back in the centre of the Rightsize process by taking the reins of how this new way of living is, and working with it. It’s absolutely critical to me and it’s the major, major message in my book. Getting in control of your downsize is about making sure you get what you want out of life.

I’ve met too many people in retirement in their big family home who have let others control and their environment control them, but things got too hard, which meant that they got stuck in their family home for way too long. We just don’t want to see that sort of situation happen to you. And certainly the current environment shouldn’t dictate that to you.

With over a decade of experience as a Property Makeover and Change Specialist, Belinda has spent many years helping transform homes and lives. You will find all aspects of Downsizing covered by Belinda in this workshop, "How to Get In Control of Your Downsize in the Current Environment" including Q&A asked by seniors in a friendly, relaxed environment, your home!

What You Will Learn:

* What is the current environment?

* How do you get in control of your downsize?

* How do you realistically judge the right timing for downsizing?

* Where does this leave you?

Watch How to Get In Control of Your Downsize in this Current Environment Workshop:

Related Blogs:

* WHAT DOES THE CURRENT ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE MEAN FOR POTENTIAL DOWNSIZERS?

* WHAT POTENTIAL DOWNSIZERS CAN DO IN THIS ENVIRONMENT?

* DOWNSIZING - SHOULD I STAY, OR SHOULD I GO?

ABOUT BELINDA:

Belinda Woolrych, author of Rightsize Your Home: The Empty Nester’s Guide to a Stress-Free Downsize, contributes every fortnight Tuesday at 4PM to the community by her Rightsize Your Home Online Workshop.

For upcoming Rightsize Your Home Online Workshop and Events, click here.

DISCLAIMER

Belinda Woolrych makes no representation and gives no warranty as to th...

With over a decade of experience as a Property Makeover and Change Specialist, Belinda has spent many years helping transform homes and lives. You will find all aspects of Downsizing covered by Belinda in this workshop, “How to Get In Control of Your Downsize in this Current Environment” including Q&A asked by seniors in a friendly, relaxed environment, your home!

You will learn:

- What is the current environment?

- How do I get in control?

- How do I realistically judge the right timing for this?

- Where does this leave me?

- Further questions

JOIN Belinda Woolrych online every Friday at 10:00am for her RIGHTSIZE YOUR HOME ONLINE WORKSHOPS.

Register here: https://www.belindawoolrych.com/rightsize-your-home-workshop-waitlist/