During your first PCS, you’re so overwhelmed from learning move.mil and jumping through all the hoops that you’re just trying to survive the chaos. You’ve also packed, loaded the car, and headed to the new house you worked hard to find and budget for. Your first thoughts driving across the country probably aren’t about renters insurance, but military families need renters insurance.
When you’re first starting out, you don’t know what you don’t know, right?
PCS season is underway, and if you’re moving this year, you know what that means.
Time for “creative” dinners with the last remnants of your pantry! (Really, someone needs to create a cookbook with recipes designed to use up a case of ramen, the final squirt of a mustard bottle, a dusty bag of Craisins, and a gallon of peanut oil.)
Along with your not-so-master-chef debut, you’ll also be sorting through closets, overseeing the movers, cramming a forgotten toy into a suitcase after the moving van pulls away, checking into temporary lodging, checking out of temporary lodging, along with all the wrangling of pets, children, plans, and sometimes… our service members!
Two of the greatest struggles military spouses have during a PCS are finding a productive work life and connecting with friends in their new communities, especially over the last 12 to 14 months. But, have you noticed the lines between networking for work and meeting new friends have blurred thanks to Zoom, Clubhouse, LinkedIn, and other telework and social platforms?
The real estate market of 2021 has been reactive, to put it mildly. With the continued (and hopefully waning) pandemic, the real estate trends of low interest rates, low home inventory, and a seller’s market have meant home prices have seen their highest surge since 2006, according to Bloomberg.
A huge part of PCS organization is the traditional purging of all the stuff. From tossing the old and broken to scheduling a furniture donation pick-up, the need for intense organizational skills is required to avoid paying for an overweight household shipment and wasting valuable space in your new garage with unopened boxes of unnecessary items.
Did you ever think you’d be trying to buy a house during a worldwide pandemic? As crazy as it seems, real estate transactions have barely slowed over the last 12 months. You’re not the only one who thinks it’s a great idea to buy a home right now. As spring approaches, military families are joining the masses to find their next hometown.
While the traditional sequence of events for buying a house remains, there are many changes that have occurred. From donning a mask and shoe coverings, to entering an open house showing, to signing the dotted line online, you’ll encounter some annoying and beneficial adjustments.
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