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Still Not Retired - Marty Merzer's Substack

Something Different: Selling A House

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Marty Merzer
Jul 26, 2025
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As you may recall from a note atop a post earlier this week, we’re engaged in the complex task of downsizing to a smaller home. Lots of reasons, none of which are relevant to the matter at hand, which is this:

Holy Decluttering, this is hard work and more than a little ridiculous.

Setting aside the expected matters of finding, negotiating for and placing under contract a new residence (done!) - and working with our Realtor (never forget that capital “R”) to determine the offering price and circumstances of our current residence, the staggering, often ludicrous magnitude of work involved in all of this has grown exponentially since the last time we did it, 13 years ago.

To wit:

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