Hot fun in the summer…
Ah…the joys of summer and
relocation! As everyone involved
with relocation knows—summer does not inspire images of leisurely days in the
sunshine.
For relocation management
companies, corporate relocation and human resource managers, and transferees
alike, the summer season is a blurry vision of moving vans, home sales, new
home searches, uprooting children, expense vouchers, paperwork galore, and
headaches. Guaranteed - transferees
look back on their “summer of relocation” and pray the memory becomes distant
before the next transfer! And the relocation management company celebrates a
successful season, enjoying the satisfaction from a job well done.
Extraordinary events and
challenges inevitably crop up during the summer crunch. Last minute moves,
challenging home sale closings, purchase hurdles and delays, and the rush for
getting transferees settled before the onset of fall and back to school.
I’ve always said that
someday I would like to write a book filled with anecdotes and essays on
relocation. Maybe about the cat that went to sleep in a bureau draw and woke up
in a moving van being unloaded in New Jersey; or the transferee who arrived
late at night to his temporary apartment only to discover there was something
definitely wrong—the clue being someone sound asleep on the couch; then there
was the appraiser who reported on the wrong home; or the buyer who did not
close and decided to move into the property anyway….the tales are endless.
And for all of that… and
having personally lived to tell the tale myself, both as a relocation
professional today and as a trailing spouse many summers ago…I can say without
hesitation, that surviving the summer of relocation offers a sense of
accomplishment and exhilaration!
And just as quickly as it
begins, the rushed days of summer are over…but not the stories…definitely…not
the stories!
Posted on 07/14/2010 in Domestic Relocation | Comments (1)
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