Maybe you're selling tomorrow. Maybe it's a month from now, or a few years down the road. Either way, selling a home is exciting and emotional — it's one chapter closing so the next one can begin. And that doesn't erase a single memory made within those walls. It just means it's time to let someone else start making their own. If selling is somewhere on your horizon, here are a few things worth thinking about before your home ever hits the market. 1. Make Updates That Actuall

When people find out I moved from Texas to Washington, I get the same three questions almost every time. So let's just get into it — from someone who actually did the move, not someone Googling "best places to live in the PNW". The Weather (Let's Just Get This Over With) Yes. It rains. Yes, there's a stretch of the year — roughly November through February(ish) — where the sky just kind of... gives up. It's gray, it gets dark early, and some days you'll go without seeing direc