The five-minute kit for Twin Cities families heading into a move — new job, growing family, downsizing, fresh start. No pressure, no jargon, no listing dump.
You’re not behind. Most people facing a move in the middle of a life change have never been walked through it — they’ve been sold at. Here’s the short version: the five things worth knowing before you decide anything.
The house is never really the project — the life change is. New job, new baby, empty nest, fresh start: each one has its own timeline and its own math. Say out loud what’s changing and when it needs to change by. Every good decision comes from that sentence.
Two numbers change everything: what your current home would actually net you (not the algorithm’s guess), and the monthly payment you’d feel good about next. Forget the bank’s max — comfort is the budget. Both numbers take one conversation to get, and both are free.
"Is now a good time?" has an honest answer — it’s just specific to you. Rates, inventory, and season matter less than your chapter’s deadline and your equity position. The data will say move now, or wait until spring, and either answer is a win when you hear it early.
Selling one home while buying the next is the part people lose sleep over. It’s solvable — negotiated closings, rent-backs, one coordinated timeline — but only if it’s planned as one move, not two. That plan is exactly what the Strategy Meeting builds.
Most of the industry is part-time and performative. In a life transition you need the opposite: someone full-time, honest about the hard parts, and led by data instead of commission math. Interview for that. (Yes, even if it’s me.)
No pressure, no pitch — one honest conversation about your next chapter, and a plan you can hold in your hand.