{"id":85,"date":"2006-07-13T10:53:53","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T17:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2006-07-13T13:29:52","modified_gmt":"2006-07-13T20:29:52","slug":"got-junk-welcome-the-junk-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/85\/got-junk-welcome-the-junk-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"Got Junk? Welcome The Junk Guys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Winter I represented a couple who bought a home from a pair of ancients who had lived in their house for over 30 years. During their long tenure, they never ran across a memento that they didn’t want to keep. So although we gave them a long escrow, by the last 5 days they hadn’t made a dent in emptying their nest. The seller’s agent, Dan Peacock<\/a>, a fine Realtor whose license is currently with Homesmart, worked some magic and the house was empty at close, and at the time that’s all I cared about.<\/p>\n

But, have you ever found yourself<\/i> in this situation: surrounded by mountains of stuff, so much that you no longer have any idea of what you have, so much that it’s crowding you out of enjoying your home? And so much that you’re overwhelmed at the thought of how to go about getting rid of it? I was there earlier this year when I sold the family home, which I had bought from my parents eight years earlier. The home was full of memories. Memories of my youngest sister going to Senita Elementary then learning to drive and cruising MetroCenter then going to prom at Moon Valley. Her wedding gown was still hanging in the laundry room and her children’s kindergarten projects for Grandma and Grandpa were still tacked to walls and taped to cupboards. On top of those were my own memories. Memories of my life in the house during the last years of my late husband’s life: Decorating ideas we had cut out from Phoenix Home & Garden<\/a> and Architectural Digest<\/a>. Pretty stones we had collected along the shores of Southern California. And more recent memories with Greg and Cameron: Dried flowers from my wedding bouquet. Michael Jordan and Star Wars posters in Cameron’s bedroom. Memories that will last a lifetime, but stuff that was consuming my thoughts and my time. We had moved from that house over a year before, but still all that stuff was there, and we had sold the house.<\/p>\n

There was a solution. Yesterday sellsius° real estate blog<\/a> mentioned it Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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