Working document
The new unit fit sheet
A one page working template you fill in on the community tour so the keeper list is decided by measurements instead of by argument.
Free resources
Working resources for senior move managers
Everything here is meant to be used on a live job: two calculators, three honest software comparisons, and a fit sheet you can print for the next community tour.
Senior move management sits between organizing, moving, and social work, and almost nothing published for those trades answers the questions that actually come up. How do I price a seven room house into a two bedroom apartment. How many weeks does this take when the client can only decide for two hours at a time. What paperwork do I need before I sell her dining set.
These pages answer those questions with arithmetic and specifics rather than encouragement. The calculators run on numbers you already have from your last job. The comparisons name real software and stay at the level of fit rather than pretending to score features we cannot verify. The fit sheet is a working document you print and carry.
Free tools
Calculators for pricing and scheduling a downsizing job
Two working calculators for the numbers that decide a senior move engagement: what the job pays after crew and disposition costs, and how many weeks it needs before move day.
Comparisons
How DownsizeRoute compares with the other tools on a downsizing job
Senior move managers usually shop three different categories of software, and only one of them is organized around the floor plan of the unit the client is moving into.
Main guide
How do I measure a two bedroom apartment so the furniture actually fits on move day?
It settles, wall by wall and doorway by doorway, how to measure a receiving unit so the furniture that leaves the house is the furniture that fits when it arrives.
Magazine
The Downsize Route
Field craft, pricing, and compliance for senior move managers guiding older adults from a long held house into a smaller home.
About
Who writes all of this
The publisher behind DownsizeRoute, why the product exists and the standards the writing is held to.
When you want the tool rather than the worksheet
Fit a fifty year household into a two bedroom floor plan before the moving truck is booked.