6 Steps to Upsizing Your Home

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 Watching your business flourish is one of the most gratifying feelings possible, but it might be accompanied by stress if you’re quickly outgrowing your current home-based business space. Luckily, you can upsize your home to ensure that your business continues to grow. Doing so might be a challenging process, though, as home buying often is. Today, C & C Real Estate Services shares six steps to minimize the stress associated with buying a new home and helping your business thrive.

 Review the Buying Process

 Before you can dive into your search for a new home, you should review the process that purchasing a home will entail. If you’re already a homeowner and you’re simply planning on looking for a bigger house, you need to familiarize yourself with the steps to sell your home as well as the steps to buy.

 Research Home Trends Nationwide

 The housing market changes rapidly, and it can look vastly different from one year to the next. Even if you purchased your home semi-recently, you shouldn’t make any assumptions about the market. Instead, you should take a broad look at the U.S. housing market in its entirety to understand national patterns rather than just local trends. Or, work with C & C Real Estate Services, who can help you understand the local market and assist you in your search.

 Balance Personal and Professional Needs

 Once you understand what to expect from the market, you should seriously consider what you’re looking for in your next home — both personally and professionally. Of course, you’ll need ample space to expand your business, but you may also want a gourmet kitchen to facilitate your love for cooking, for example. Striking a balance between these needs will help you find the right home.

 Set Up an Ideal Home Office

 Setting up your new home office is an exciting new step in your business’s next chapter. Of course, you want it to be functional, so you’ll likely invest in a desk and other office furniture. If you need amenities such as storage for inventory, you should invest in furniture for this, too. High-quality furniture will help you keep your home office clean, organized, and — most importantly — productive.

 Determine What You Need to Succeed

 A bigger home office and an upsized space will make it much easier to level up your business operations. It’s likely not the only thing you’ll need, though, to boost your business. Figure out what other resources are essential to successfully running your home-based business. New computers or storage hardware, for example, may help you maintain smooth online operations.

 You should also think about going back to school. A business degree could give you a massive advantage over the competition, and if you’re looking for a flexible online program that allows you to learn at your own pace, looking at the options that won’t require you to take a great deal of time away from your work and family.

 Get Ready for Expansion

 According to statistics, 20% of businesses fail within 24 months of starting. If you’re on track to expand, you’re in a prime position to beat the odds and achieve long-term success. You can further prepare your business for growth by establishing a doing business as (DBA) name. This will make it easier to sell new services under a different brand name or branch out your business.

 Scale Your Business and Upsize Your Home

 When growth is on the horizon for your business, it’s a good idea to be optimistic and leverage this potential in your plans. Look for a home that will offer the space you need to continue expanding your business and achieving success. With the right house and home office space, you’ll be able to continue your business’s growth for years to come.

Bitterroot Valley Real Estate- Craig Siphers, Senior Broker
Providing trusted consultation on buying and selling Montana
real estate for over 30 years in Lolo, Florence, Stevensville,
Victor, Corvallis, Hamilton, and Darby. Call or text Craig Siphers
at 406-360-9108 to make a legendary deal!

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