Kernersville / Winston-Salem / Greensboro / High Point
Those are two separate projects. Choosing the next place takes as long as it takes. Preparing the house can begin this month, and it is the part that decides what you have to work with when the right place shows up.
I am Tracy Turner. For 17 years I have helped Triad families leave two-story houses and handle a parent's move.
Complimentary. Confidential. No obligation.
What I hear first
“We don't know where to start.”
This is the one that stops everybody. Not the market, not the price. The order of operations.
“We have too much stuff.”
Thirty years of it, and a good bit of it belongs to children who have not come to get it yet.
“This house is too much to keep up with.”
The stairs, the yard, the gutters, the rooms nobody has walked into since Christmas.
“My mom is having a really hard time with this.”
Adult children say this to me almost word for word. The house is the easy part. It is everything around it that weighs.
Underneath all four is the same belief. That you cannot begin until you know where you are going. That belief is the reason families sit still for years, and it is the one thing I would like to take off the table in the first ten minutes we talk.
How this actually works
Preparing the house and picking the destination run on separate tracks. This is the track I can start with you right away.
You tell me what the house is, who lives in it, and what has you stuck. I listen. Nothing gets listed, nothing gets scheduled, nothing gets decided.
Room by room. I tell you which repairs actually return money at the closing table and which ones you can skip. Most people are surprised by how short the real list is.
A customized preparation plan with the order of operations. What happens first, what happens second, and who is handling each piece. The plan is yours whether you list this year or three years from now.
Painters, estate sale companies, movers, cleaners, stagers, and contractors. You do not research anyone, vet anyone, or chase anyone down. I have used these people for years.
Keep, pass down, sell, donate. There is a sequence to this and it is far less painful when someone who has done it many times is guiding the order.
Photos, listing, showings, offers, inspection, and the closing table. You will know what is coming next at every point, because I will have already told you.
Just a conversation. Nothing to sign, nothing to commit to.
What I do that is different here
What I do that is different here
Not advice given at the kitchen table and forgotten by Thursday. A real plan you can hold, work through at your pace, and hand to your brother or sister so everybody is looking at the same page.
Contractors, movers, cleaners, stagers, estate sale companies, and lenders. Plus introductions to attorneys for estate, will, and retirement matters. Those are introductions, not legal advice.
I will tell you which repairs raise the sale price and which ones you should leave alone. Families routinely spend money on the house that the buyer was never going to pay them back for.
From the first conversation to the closing table, my team and I keep track of the moving parts. You are not the project manager. You get to be the family member.
Three families
A mother had moved into a retirement home and her daughter was handling the sale. I gave her the estate sale company, the movers, and the cleaners. Two days before listing photos, a freshly painted room looked terrible. I had a painter there that same day. The photos turned out well and the home went under contract in two days at list price.
A daughter told me her mother had moved out over a year earlier and was still anxious and sad about selling the house. She asked if I would drive out and explain the process to her mother in person and answer her questions. I did. Her daughter told me it put her mother much more at ease.
A couple was leaving their two-story because his knees could no longer take the stairs. We found a one-level ranch in a community where the HOA handles the lawn. They did not want to live through showings with two dogs, so I connected them with a lender for a bridge loan and they moved first. Then I had the house staged and it sold over asking price.
0 years
Helping families through this exact move
Hundreds
Of families in Guilford, Forsyth, and Davidson counties
About 40%
Of my work is helping an adult child handle a parent's sale
You do not need to have decided anything before we talk.
About Tracy
So when a daughter tells me her mother is having a hard time with the house, I am not imagining what that is like. I am in the middle of it at my own kitchen table, with my own parents, sorting through the same decisions.
I have been a Realtor in the Triad for 17 years and I hold the SRES designation, the Seniors Real Estate Specialist credential. Most of my work now is with two kinds of families. Empty nesters selling in the $300,000 to $500,000 range and buying something on one level, usually newer and nicer, in the $400,000 to $550,000 range. And adult children handling a parent's sale while the parent settles into retirement living.
I work in Kernersville, High Point, Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Colfax, and Oak Ridge, across Guilford, Forsyth, and Davidson counties. I know these neighborhoods and I know the people who work on these houses.
“I help right-sizers and seniors achieve a smooth, stress-free move without feeling overwhelmed, so they can move on to the next chapter of their lives.”
The two are not tied together, and once you see that, the whole thing gets smaller. Tell me what you are looking at. The house, the stairs, your parents' place, the rooms full of things nobody has gone through. I will tell you what I would do first.
It is just a chat. No pressure either way.