Downsizing Decision and Planning Guide
Explore what works now, what could fit better, and your next questions. Exploring does not commit you to moving.
See what the guide covers →Resource library
One place to explore your options.
Start with the decision in front of you. Read online, open a practical guide, or ask Rob for the client resource that fits your next conversation.
Not sure whether to move?
Downsizing Decision and Planning Guide
Explore what is still working, what is becoming less suitable, what a better fit could look like and which questions need answers. No decision to sell is required.
- Compare staying, adapting and moving
- Identify daily-life and future-home priorities
- Separate solvable concerns from reasons a move may help
- Choose three manageable next steps
A good first resource when:You are unsure whether moving would improve daily life.You want to compare options before discussing a listing.Belongings, timing or uncertainty are making the decision difficult.
Take one step
Public guides to keep and use.
Each button opens the most useful version of the resource in a new tab, where you can fill it in, print it or save a copy.
Deciding whether to move
Your Real Estate Journey
See the stages of buying, selling or coordinating both, and where each professional helps.
Decluttering and getting started
Too Much Stuff? Quick Start
Choose one small area and a stopping point. Start here when you want a simple first step.
Too Much Stuff? Start Here Worksheet
Build on the quick start with space for your first action and a manageable plan.
Decluttering Checklist
Work through one room or category at a time. Choose only the parts that help you.
What Could You Let Go Of?
Ideas for belongings to review, with reminders to pause over personal, valuable or sensitive items.
Planning your purchase
Buyer Readiness Guide
Review the preparation areas to discuss with Rob and your professional team before your search and first offer.
Next Home Needs & Wants Guide
Clarify your needs, preferences, deal-breakers and trade-offs, then rank the five priorities that should guide your next-home search.
See what the guide covers →Preparing to sell
Seller Prep and Listing Launch Checklist
Organize the preparation and launch tasks agreed for your property. Not every task applies to every home.
Used with Rob
Personalized and stage-specific client resources.
These materials are introduced when they fit the conversation or transaction stage. They are not blank public downloads because they may contain personal information or need explanation in context.
Decision support
Consultation Workbook and Questionnaires
Clarifies priorities, timing, trade-offs, decision-makers and what information is still needed. Rob selects the buyer, seller or coordinated buy-and-sell version that fits the conversation.
Decision support
Communication Standards and Working Together Guide
Sets expectations for communication, urgent questions, document handling and agreed next steps once Rob and the client begin working together.
Decision support
Personalized Next-Step Summary
Records what was decided, what remains open, who is responsible for each action and the next useful checkpoint after a consultation.
Selling
Seller Property and Pre-List Questionnaire
Organizes property details, known work, documents, preparation questions and timing before a seller makes listing decisions.
Buying
Offer and Conditions Roadmap
Supports a focused review of offer terms, conditions, professional investigations, deadlines and the decisions that occur before an offer becomes firm.
Offers and completion
Completion and Moving Guide
Coordinates the practical steps from a firm contract through legal completion, possession, utilities, movers and the first days in the new home.
Not sure which one fits?
Tell Rob what you are deciding. He will suggest the smallest useful next step rather than sending every form at once.
Tools and planning frameworks
Use the right tool for the decision in front of you.
Interactive · private
Where should I start?
Three questions point to a useful path: test staying, explore adapting, or define what a move must improve. Answers are not saved or sent.
Open the Starting GuidePlanning framework
Stay, adapt, or move
Compare three legitimate paths across daily fit, cost, support, community, and flexibility.
Use the framework →Timeline
Six-month downsizing plan
Sequence direction, destination, preparation, transaction, moving, and settling in.
See the timeline →Checklist
Eight-week moving plan
Organize movers, access, insurance, utilities, packing, records, and the first night.
Open the checklist →Property search
Prepare before browsing
Build a clear search brief here, then continue to the separate Downsizing123.ca website for live listings.
Prepare your external search →Read online
Explore a little further.
Ten cornerstone guides cover the decisions around home. Reading times reflect each guide’s word count.
Buyers
The BC Home Buyer Guide
A complete, practical sequence for affordability, representation, property research, offers, conditions, completion, and the first weeks of ownership in British Columbia.
8 min readRead the guideSellers
The BC Home Seller Guide
A start-to-finish plan for preparing, pricing, marketing, negotiating, completing, and coordinating the next move after a home sale in British Columbia.
7 min readRead the guideDownsizers
The Complete BC Downsizing Guide
A comprehensive human, housing, financial, belongings, and moving plan for choosing a smaller or simpler home in British Columbia.
7 min readRead the guidePlanners
The Rightsizing Decision Guide
A structured way to decide whether to stay, adapt, or move by comparing daily life, future flexibility, community, cost, and risk.
6 min readRead the guideHouseholds & families
The Respectful Decluttering Guide
A practical system for reducing belongings while protecting energy, privacy, family relationships, meaningful stories, and the requirements of the next home.
6 min readRead the guideMovers
The BC Moving Checklist
An eight-week moving plan covering contracts, strata rules, insurance, utilities, address changes, packing, moving day, and the first month in a BC home.
6 min readRead the guideEarly planners
The Downsizing Timeline
A flexible six-month roadmap that coordinates the decision, destination, finances, property preparation, belongings, transaction, move, and settling-in period.
6 min readRead the guideExecutors & families
The Estate Transition Guide
A careful BC starting framework for authority, security, records, belongings, property, professional advice, sale preparation, accounting, and family communication after a death.
6 min readRead the guideCondo buyers
The BC Condo & Strata Guide
A comprehensive review of BC strata documents, finances, depreciation planning, insurance, governance, rules, physical condition, and ownership responsibilities.
7 min readRead the guideRelocating households
The BC Relocation Guide
A complete framework for comparing BC communities, verifying costs and hazards, conducting a remote search, coordinating a transaction, and settling into daily life.
7 min readRead the guideSeptember 2026
Monthly market statistics.
Official September reports from the two real estate boards.
Greater Vancouver REALTORS®
Greater Vancouver market report
Includes Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows and Port Coquitlam.
September 2026 · Official PDFRead the guideFraser Valley Real Estate Board
Fraser Valley market report
Includes Mission, Abbotsford, Langley and Surrey.
September 2026 · Official PDFRead the guide