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Moving Home Office
Here’s an article I wrote for Bitsy / Enterprise Nation – brilliant resources for small businesses and people who work from home. As if moving house wasn’t stressful enough, when you work from home you have to deal with an office move as well. Keep disruption to your business to a minimum; prepare for and [...]
Read moreGet Organised in 2011 (www.hereisthecity.co.uk)
I wrote an article for www.hereisthecity.co.uk: It’s no shock that most of us need a bit (or a lot) more organisation in our lives – at work and at home. With New Year comes a fleeting feeling of motivation and the need for a fresh start. Take advantage of it! Here’s a little help to [...]
Read moreMoving Abroad (www.buyassociation.co.uk)
Moving abroad – the logistics In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s definitely winter now; it’s cold, it’s miserable and the thought of moving to sunnier climes is seriously tempting! It’s a big decision but once you have addressed the bigger questions of where to move to, what you will do once you’re there and which [...]
Read moreMoving with kids
Tempting as it may be to box your mini movers up when you move house and unpack them once the madness is over, it’s just not practical (or legal I suspect). Upping sticks is manic, stressful and messy enough at the best of times but it gets a lot more complicated when you throw a [...]
Read moreNightmare Moves
www.buyassociation.co.uk article number 5: Moving house can be a fine example of Murphy’s Law: “If something can go wrong, it will go wrong”. Combine this with O’Connor’s Corollary – “Murphy was an optimist” – and you can see why so many people dread such a masochistic exercise. At the risk of terrifying people into never [...]
Read moreWhat’s the delay on moving day?
Here’s article number 4 from www.buyassociation.co.uk written by yours truly: One of the most frustrating things about moving day is the waiting time. Despite the huge amounts of excitement, hard work and effort that go into the day, waiting to make the big move is inevitable for some (or if you’re very unlucky, all) of [...]
Read moreThe trials and tribulations of recommending services: The Modern Estate Agent
This is a Guest Blog I wrote for The Modern Estate Agent Blog: One of our core principles at PropertyADD is in developing good, long term relationships. We do whatever it takes, and then we do a bit more for good measure. Relationships and repeat business are the lifeblood of any business and yet so [...]
Read moreReasons people move
Here’s article number 3 from www.buyassociation.co.uk : Not so long ago it wasn’t unusual to move only once or twice in your life, but today the average person moves every six years; so what makes people move? Here are the main reasons why people up sticks: 1. More Space – Most people’s first homes are [...]
Read moreSavvy Woman
The lovely Savvy Sarah Pennells asked me to write a few tips for her website SavvyWoman; Sarah is quite the expert when it comes to all things financial, so it’s definitely worth checking out her site and signing up for her email updates. Here’s my contribution: Moving house is one of those times when money [...]
Read moreMoving house; what to expect
Article number 2 for www.buyassociation.co.uk: Do you want the good news or the bad news? Moving house is expensive, time consuming and stressful: I lied about the good news. Once you get to your new house and get on with the process of turning it into a home, though, things will get better – provided [...]
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