Or just use a flat-fee listing broker … if the market is as good as some people say, it should sell in no time, right?

Downsizing possessions? Hold a garage sale, take a rental truck load of stuff to the new place, end of story. My parents left the Communist bloc with a suitcase worth of stuff. Don’t get too attached to things.

Treat a home as an investment asset, not something to get attached to. Be cold, heartless, and calculating. Stop feeling love for a wooden box of ticky tacky.

Sell the house, buy something else … if you play it right, you might even be able to have a roof over your head for nearly free, even if it’s just a 2/1 condo in a mediocre area.