If you are downsizing a parent, clearing out an estate, or moving out of a home someone has lived in for forty years, there is a whole industry built for exactly this, and most people have never heard of it. It is called move management.

Jen Michaud is the Sales and Operations Manager for ONESource Moving Solutions across their Windsor and Chatham locations. I have worked with her team on a number of properties, so I wanted to get her on and walk through what they actually do.

We cover what happens on that first phone call, and why Jen comes out and sits down with you in your own home before anything gets quoted. We cover what estate services look like when the family lives in another province or another country. How contents get sorted into online auction, marketplace, donation, or disposal, and why the donation route comes with a tax receipt. What furniture is genuinely worth versus what people think it is worth. And the unpack-and-setup service, where they photograph each shelf of the curio cabinet at the old house so it goes back exactly the same way at the new one. That detail matters more than people expect.

Jen also explains why every person on their team, office and field, carries a police clearance with a vulnerable sector check.

And yes, we get into the freezer. If you have ever had one appliance stop an entire closing, you will understand.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Meet Jen and what ONESource does
01:08 Windsor, Chatham and the franchise network
02:31 Why downsizing is about to get busy
04:00 The first call and the in-home consultation
06:55 Estate services when the family lives away
08:41 What wills actually say about contents
11:01 Why compassion is the whole job
12:27 The days before and after move day
14:28 Unpacking so it feels like home again
17:27 The freezer that would not leave
19:15 Auction, marketplace, donate or discard
20:58 What that furniture is really worth
22:30 Who shows up to the auctions
24:19 Why every lot gets catalogued properly
26:18 The crew behind the work
29:23 Where ONESource is headed next
30:33 Selling a Canadian property from the States
31:39 Police clearance and vulnerable sector checks
33:23 Prep for market, staging and deep cleans
36:55 Working alongside the agent
38:06 Wrap up

ONESOURCE MOVING SOLUTIONS

Website: https://onesourcemoving.ca/
Jen Michaud, Sales and Operations Manager: jen@onesourcemoving.ca
Phone: 519-984-2111
6 County Road 42, Maidstone, ON

WINDSOR-ESSEX REAL ESTATE PULSE
Hosted by RuthAnn Osborne, Sales Representative, RE/MAX Preferred Realty Ltd., Brokerage.

Produced by All In Content.

If you are working through a move like this and have questions, reach out. No pressure, no pitch. 226-782-4493

Evan and Brody co-own E&B Junk Solutions in Windsor. They're both nineteen, they were both born here, and they've been running businesses of some kind since the lemonade stand days.

I called them when I walked into a property that was well past anything I could deal with, and they were out the next day. So I wanted to have them on.

We talk about how a junk removal quote actually works and why a photo will never be enough. Where everything goes once it leaves your driveway, and how much of it gets donated instead of dumped. The first house cleanout they ever took on and everything that went sideways. What they've learned about people from walking into homes after a death, a fire or a flood. And why they'd rather work five in the morning to nine at night for themselves than nine to five for somebody else.

There's a good conversation about faith in the middle of this one as well.

Find E&B Junk Solutions at https://www.ebjunksolutions.com/, on Instagram @ebjunksolutions, on Facebook at E&B Junk Solutions Inc, or call Evan at 226-246-4056.

Windsor-Essex Real Estate Pulse is hosted by RuthAnn Osborne, Sales Representative, RE/MAX Preferred Realty Ltd., Brokerage. Questions about buying or selling in Windsor-Essex? Reach out at 226-782-4493. Produced by All In Content.

Most agents think social media is supposed to close deals. Chris Hanna says that's the wrong job description, and once you understand what content is actually doing for you, everything about how you make it changes.

Chris is the founder of All In Content, a done-for-you video, social media management, and podcast production company serving Windsor-Essex. He has also been editing and posting my content for the last couple of years. We recorded this one in person inside the All In Content Studio.

We talk about why social media keeps you top of mind rather than closing the deal, how batching lets you film once and stay visible for months, where AI helps and where it is making everyone sound the same, the testimonial ask most agents avoid, why the phone still wins, and how burnout creeps up on people who run their own business. We finish on where content is heading and why long form is coming back.

If you have been posting consistently and still feel invisible, start here.

Guest:
Chris Hanna, Founder and CEO, All In Content

Website: https://allincontent.ca

Book a consultation: https://calendly.com/chris-hanna/all-in-content-consultation

Host:
RuthAnn Osborne, Windsor-Essex Real Estate Pulse
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ruthannremax/?hl=en

New episode every month with a different guest, always tied back to real estate in Windsor-Essex. Subscribe so you catch the next one.

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Welcome, and why I wanted Chris on the show

05:11 The only thing stopping most agents from starting

09:08 Professionals hire professionals

15:56 Where AI actually helps

25:40 Turning everyday client moments into content

28:17 The feedback most business owners never ask for

29:14 Why everyone's content is starting to look the same

40:12 Pick up the phone

41:21 Business is built on relationships

52:16 The deals you lose by not answering

1:00:37 Where content is heading next

1:13:01 You don't have to overthink it

1:14:40 Don't cry over social media