Am I Lazy or Crazy?

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by Juniper

Yeah, I plan to put a lot of it on eBay and/or Craigslist. I just don't want to do that till I'm done with the condo itself and at least have it on the market. I'm not organized enough to deal with all of it at once.

Seem like the wrong way around to me. Get rid of the contents first, then dela with the condo.

You might go through the lot, pick out one or two boxes full of keeping things, then put the rest up as a job lot on Ebay, with a few photos and estimates of what is in there, buyer to remove.
Do not listen to the voices in your head. Or if you must, don't be bullied by them.

Every time I put things in a pile for a donation, I hear this voice in my head - it's my grandma, who wasn't very nice to me, saying: "you're getting rid of that? how ungrateful, don't you appreciate anything they gave you?" or "How could you get rid of that - that was your MOTHER'S!"

Yes, it WAS my mother's, but it isn't anymore, it is time to let it go.


Then get the painters in, then cleaners, then, I suggest, rent the condo out.
Now is NOT the time to sell real estate unless you absolutely must. Get some tenants, even at supercheap rent, to cover the maintenance costs, then in a few years, look at selling. What are you going to do with cash, right now?
We can reasonably expect a strong surge of inflation, and devaluation, of the US$ over the next 5 or 10 years, you want to be holding assets, not cash denominated bonds.
So, you'd invest your cash in, oh, I don't know, maybe a condo or something ....

Keep it, rent it, sell it later.