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moving-mistakes

 

Mistake No. 1: Renting out your old home badly...

Sure, it seems smart to hold on to your old place just in case. It's also nice to collect rent! But that's the best-case scenario; you need to also consider the worst.

“Renting [out] a home can be a great investment, if you know what you're doing,” says real estate investor Mark Ferguson of Investfourmore.com. “The problem is, many people have no idea how to manage renting a home—like collecting rent and checking on tenants—or [to] anticipate the expenses. Landlords have to account for maintenance and vacancies, not just their mortgage payment, so most houses won't make money as rentals.”

So make sure you have a plan to manage your home remotely, and that you can afford to keep paying the…

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By Adriana Velez

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I moved in with my boyfriend this past summer. Before you imagine some cute recent college grad in her first adult relationship, no. I'm a divorced mom who had lived in the same Brooklyn apartment for nearly 20 years. And you can imagine what that means: I had some baggage. Literally!

I'm talking tons of stuff I had accumulated over the years, somehow crammed into my tiny space. And since my beau and I were merging assets into one apartment with minimal storage, that meant I'd have to let go of a lot of my possessions if I had any hope of making this cohabitation situation work.

All told, by the time I moved, I got rid of 50 garbage bags' worth of stuff (some of it given away, much of it trashed). And then, once…

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