CHAPTER 2 What Are You Looking f ou Looking for in Your Next Home? xt Home?
We just talked about how much you have to look forward to as you move into the next season of life. But before you even consider selling your longtime home, you need to consider your next home and the life you want to live in it.
So, what are you looking for in your next home?
Many empty-nesters find themselves with excessive living space they no longer need. That’s why many choose to downsize when searching for their following homes. In many cases, your new home post-retirement will have less square footage than your current home. Still, it may be a different type of home—for example, a one-story home as opposed to a two-story home, perhaps with similar square footage, or a home of equal size with fewer bedrooms and more space dedicated to other areas. This is called “rightsizing.” Rightsizing is all about finding a more manageable home than your own. Before we discuss the different types of housing options in detail, let’s consider some of the benefits of downsizing or rightsizing, including some surprising or even unexpected benefits of selling your current home and moving into another one. For this chapter, we will focus specifically on the benefits of 8
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