Each Friday we feature homes for sale by our clients and/or Realtor partners as a way to add value to their Seamless Moves moving experience. Enjoy!

Today’s Friday Featured Property showcases a 2,390 sq. foot, 2 bedroom/2.5 bath home in a private and peaceful setting in the Trilogy neighborhood of Redmond Ridge. The 2,390 sq. foot home with a 3-car garage offers fabulous views of the 6th Fairway of The Golf Club at Redmond Ridge from the great room, master bedroom and, of course, the deck! Other features include slab granite, stainless steel appliances and hardwood floors in the kitchen, plantation shutters, a 5-piece master bath with a jetted tub, a guest suite and custom landscaping with a waterfall and pond.

Enjoy the social opportunities of the Trilogy Community (55+) Resort Style Living. The listing price of this home as of today’s date is $639,000.

If you are a Realtor or home buyer interested in this property, you may view it at http://bit.ly/RedRidge or MLS# 48621 or by contacting the seller’s agent, Pat Wenzel, at 206-650-6356.

You know them, you love them: those single socks whose mate has mysteriously disappeared in the dryer, drawer or gym locker. How long have you been keeping those orphans, hoping to re-unite them with their “sole-mate?”

We suggest celebrating Lost Sock Memorial Day
(May 9th) by donating your partner-less socks, along with other clean, usable women’s, children’s or men’s clothing, to Seamless Moves’ Lost Sock Day Clothing Drive to benefit Northwest Center. On Lost Sock Day, volunteers will play matchmaker and pair up as many donated socks as possible, so that they may fulfill their calling to warm chilly toes.

As you spring-clean your closets and dresser drawers over the next couple of weeks, keep a bag handy for items you no longer use. Then, take your donation to one of the donation sites listed below by May 6th, or contact Seamless Moves for pickup at 425-746-1334.

• The Stor-House and Wine Storage Bellevue, 1614 118^th Ave SE, Bellevue 98005
• Foot Solutions, 15230 NE 24^th St, Suite O, Redmond (Overlake) 98052
• Delaurenti Florist, 15100 SE 38th Street, Bellevue (Eastgate) 98006
• Home Street Bank, 6949 Coal Creek Pkwy SE, Newcastle 98059
• The Stor-House, 2829 NE 3rd Street, Renton 98056

Northwest Center, a 501(c)(3) organization, has provided services to support the rights and independence of people with developmental disabilities for 45 years. From early childhood therapy and education to adult job training and placement, Northwest Center promotes the building of a community where people of all abilities can fully participate.

Today we debut a new weekly post which will feature homes for sale by our clients and/or Realtor partners as a way to add value to their Seamless Moves moving experience. Enjoy!

Our inaugural Friday Featured Property is a private park-like 3.47 acres once owned by Eddie Bauer as the site of his former hunting lodge in Redmond, WA. In addition to the lovely 7,200 sq. ft. home, there is a full-sized indoor tennis court, an 8-stall horse barn with an office and storage areas, a riding arena, approximately 70 one-year-old grapevines, and a dahlia cutting garden/vegetable garden. Both the barn and tennis court can be income-producing, if desired, and the property consists of two parcels that could be subdivided, should the new owner wish to do so.

The current owners raised their children in this home and entertained friends with both indoor and outdoor sports and celebrations. They also raise beautiful, sweet-tempered Gypsy Vanner horses and take pride in decorating their home for the holidays. It’s hard to pick a favorite part of the property, but I particularly enjoyed the view of Bear Creek just a few feet away from the full-length deck, where I’m told you can clearly see schools of salmon when they return to spawn.

If you are a Luxury Home Realtor or home buyer interested in this property, you may view it at: http://bit.ly/MNolan or MLS# 65715 or by contacting the seller’s agent, Maureen Nolan, at 206-200-9849.

Unpacking Team In Action!

With an enormous thank-you to our clients, friends (and Realtors®), Mary Juhl-Willard and Rich Willard for letting us film in their lovely home. The awesome Unpacking Team in the video: Cheryl McIvor, Jan Screen and Lindsay Loeffler.

A day of unpacking makes a great wedding gift, thank-you gift from Realtors® or job relocation perk. Before YOU move, think “Out of the Box!”

This??

Last time you said, “Never Again!” Remember?

You took a week off from work; begged, borrowed and scavenged from the liquor store as many cardboard boxes as you could source, packed up all your cherished possessions and loaded them in the U-Haul van; goaded 2 of your strongest friends into helping you muscle the hide-a-bed down 2 flights of stairs (and then had to patch the ding they made in the wall); made 6 trips to your new home; cursed at those too-small those liquor store boxes that don’t stack worth beans; jammed your furniture and boxes into the garage; and barely made it back the rental office before midnight to avoid being charged an extra day’s truck rental.

But you saved money, right?

Three years later, you still have unpacked boxes in that same garage and it’s time to move again. Really?? Can your back take it? Is your wife pregnant with baby #2 and #1 is already a full-time job? Will the only other person left in your department after the recent layoffs cover your job for a week as well as theirs?

or This??

We invite you to picture this:

Monday morning: You go to work as usual. When you come home, everything is packed up and ready to move EXCEPT the coffee maker, your personal bathroom items, what you want to wear to work tomorrow and the TV and remote. Hmm, mildly annoying, but not too bad.

Tuesday morning: You go to work, but instead of going home to your old home, you go to your new home. The furniture has all been placed where you want it and your bed is made. The coffee maker, your personal bathroom items, what you want to wear to work tomorrow and the TV and remote are unpacked and in place. Your bedside alarm clock has been set 10 minutes fast, just the way you like it.

Wednesday morning: You go to work again, only tonight when you come back to your new home there are no boxes (no paper, no crates, no bubble wrap!). All of your belongings have been unpacked and put neatly away. Your paintings, artwork and decorative items are unpacked and ready for your decorator (or ours) to place in their new locations tomorrow.

Thursday: Decorating day. When you come home tonight, you feel like you’ve lived there for years. You change your clothes and go watch your child’s soccer game.

Friday/Saturday/Sunday: Relax and enjoy your Seamless Move! Have a housewarming party; invite friends over and brag about how you got it all done in less than a week (we won’t tell!). No back ache, no calling all over town several weeks before you move to source boxes, trucks, labor, etc. No wondering what is falling through the cracks at work or at home.

Relax! We’ve done this before. Hundreds of times. We would LOVE to help you and your family, too! Just tell us what you need, and we’ll do the rest.

Move after move, our clients have told us how delighted they have been with their stress-free moving experiences. Our new name more clearly defines the benefit YOU receive: “SEAMLESS” meaning, “harmonious and smooth; having no awkward transitions or interruptions…” Doesn’t that sound like a heavenly way to move?

A sincere THANK YOU to our loyal clients, employees and referral partners. It is because of you that we have been able to grow over the last six years and to provide an “Out of the Box” moving experience for families of all sizes and situations. Whether you’re moving within or relocating to Seattle, Bellevue, Mercer Island, Redmond or anywhere in the greater Puget Sound area, we look forward to working with you, your family and friends on your next Seamless Move!