If you or someone that you love is needing more care than they’re able to give themselves at home, it might be time to consider moving into a senior living community. However, making this transition can be hard, especially if it means going from owning your own home to moving into someplace much smaller and less under your control. Luckily, there are some things that you can do to help make this move a bit easier.

To help you see how this can be done, here are three tips for selling your home before moving into a senior living community. 

Find A Great Real Estate Agent

As soon as it’s decided that moving into a senior living community is right, one of the first things that you should do is to find a great real estate agent to handle the sale of the home. Especially if the home belongs to someone who’s older and can’t handle doing much of the work of selling a home on their own, hiring someone who knows what they’re doing is going to be essential. 

With the right real estate agent helping with the sale, you’ll be able to worry less about all of the administrative work while also ensuring that you’ll get the best possible price for the property. 

Get Ready To Declutter

As with any move, when you’re going to be moving from a home into a senior living facility, you’ll want to make sure that a lot of decluttering takes place. 

For many people, paring down their possessions and getting rid of a lot of their belongings can be a stressful and overwhelming experience. So before this gets underway, make sure you or your loved one are prepared for the emotions that will likely come along with this. But if they’re able to sell some of their items, this can help pad their bank account while also giving them less to worry about moving into their new place. 

Hire People To Help You

Even for young and fit people, doing all of the manual labor associated with moving can be tough work. Knowing this, you or your elderly loved one should consider hiring people to help with all kinds of aspects of their move. People can be hired to help with decluttering, cleaning, packing and unpacking, moving, organizing, and much more. And if there is work that needs to be done on the home to make it more appealing to buyers, someone should be hired to take care of this type of work as well. 

If you’re needing to sell your home or help a loved one sell their home prior to moving into a senior living facility, consider using the tips mentioned above to help make this process go over as seamlessly as possible.