A move is often considered a stressful life event. As professional organizers, my business partner and I frequently receive calls from clients who need to move out of their homes in a hurry and want help managing the process. They’re suddenly faced with an overwhelming number of tasks, such as scheduling home inspections, addressing deferred maintenance, decluttering, packing, dealing with donations, staging, garden cleanup and more. It’s enough to cause anyone anxiety. If you’re expecting to move at some point — even if you don’t know exactly when that will be — there are a number of tasks you can do now to ease the burden later. Here are the top seven ways I recommend you prepare, whether you know your target move date or not.

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