Senior Downsizing Services
For the past 20 years, Nancy Alberts has been building knowledge and creating relationships — connections, one might say — everywhere she goes. Nothing she learns goes by the wayside; no one she meets is forgotten.
Her extensive knowledge is born, first, from a career as a Certified Legal Assistant where she assisted with estate settlements and then held positions as
Executive Vice President Administration and Director for multiple corporations in diverse industries and non-profits.
Out of that, she eventually became a business management consultant, just the kind of person a business or individual hires when they need something with lots of aspects taken care of to completion.
Ultimately, she became a Certified Senior Advisor, meeting the rigorous criteria to work with seniors, helping them with referrals to professionals for essential health, social and financial factors.
She is also qualified in Virginia to do fair market appraisals and includes an ASA-certified appraiser on her staff for fine art and other high-end personal property.
She has always loved, in her words, “people and their stuff.” She loves vintage as well as antiques and cherishes their survival. She understands from the depth of her heart what those things, that “stuff” – have meant and still mean to others.
Nancy has merged these many skills into a personal property disposition business that helps seniors, their families, and loved ones as they make their way through life’s transitions…downsizing to a smaller home, or going into independent or assisted living, dealing with not only the grief of loss but the often overwhelming tasks of what to do with the things that are left behind.
Nancy and her team of experienced professionals are there when people are, quite literally, “moving on” through a life transition.
“There are two distinct sides of what I do and why it works so well for my clients,” she explains. “One part is managerial, logistics and process-driven: sorting out personal property, packing and organizing the move, readying a new environment.
The other part, though, is the emotional one and helping seniors or their families with those decisions that involve finding a way to incorporate cherished things into the new home; or letting go. “I can tell from my heart when someone is lingering over a particular piece. And that’s when I so often suggest that they hold onto it, for now.”
As Nancy’s business has grown over the years, so have her resources and those she can offer to her clients and the community beyond. She has a favorite saying – “Good things are always good” – and her imagination is nearly boundless when it comes to putting to good use, donating, or recycling those things that others no longer need.
For instance, one client had an extensive collection of scarves she no longer wore. Nancy knew it would be easy to send them to a thrift store, but she had an idea based on needs she experienced with both friends and family.
She connected with the American Cancer Society’s Look Good/Feel Good program that helps cancer patients enhance their appearance. Those scarves went on to beautify and comfort the brave women who fight that battle.</P
Another client was thrilled when Nancy put her in touch with a non-profit organization that assists homeless people in transition into permanent housing. “I was overwhelmed when my father died, and I suddenly had a four-bedroom house and all its contents to deal with,” “Nancy walked through those rooms with me, listening to my stories and truly sharing my many family memories.
She was able to help me not only figure out what things were important to me to keep what and where to donate to help the transitioning homeless, but she also had many valuable suggestions about how to improve his 40-year-old home for resale.
She helped explain IRS requirements for itemized listings of the donated items. Her knowledge and caring were awe-inspiring and lessened the burden I was bearing.”
“Overwhelmed” is a word Nancy hears a lot. And her great joy is tackling the issues that families face and being the liaison – the connection – providing resources, options, or solutions to problems during that transition.
World-renowned photographer Dr. VME Edom-Smith is among those fortunate enough to have found Nancy when she wished to downsize to move closer to her children in California.
“Nancy has held my hand through every decision,” Dr. Edom-Smith recalls. I’m incredibly thankful that she was so knowledgeable about so many resources and professionals and helped me sort through all the possibilities and options as I made my decisions.”
The Marketing Director of First Colonial Inn had worked with Nancy for many years, assisting residents in getting settled in their facility. “Nancy is professional and dedicated, as you can get.
I feel comfortable referring her to our prospective residents and clients. Nancy treats each person like her own family and is considerate and understanding of what an older person is going through while making this life transition,” she says.
Nancy also makes it a practice to stay aware of seniors’ ever-changing needs and how to meet them. As more and more people are choosing to stay in their own homes, “aging in place,” she is adjusting and expanding her business’ services to include probate solutions, in-home assessments, then downsizing, organizing, and redecorating to eliminate health risks, provide inventories of belongings and make life, in every way, more comfortable and safer.
Nancy’s first consultations are always free, and she often uses conference calls (now zoom) to “meet” long-distance with family members who are far from their loved ones. She uses digital photography and both texts and emails for informed decisions.
Carolyn Wergley, a Hampton Roads native was leaving the home she has lived in since 1957 downsized to move closer to her children in Northern Virginia.
“With every change, Nancy checked on me to make sure that I was okay. She even picked up on the fact that I was not content with a particular decision I had made, and she took the time to sit and talk with me, saying, ‘I can help you if there is something you want. I want you to be happy.’
She helped me feel good about changing my mind,” Carolyn shares. “She’s more than my advisor; she’s my friend.”
Experience IS the difference to the Moving On! Services’ clients.
Nancy and her staff provide comprehensive personal property disposition services, including downsizing, organizing, project management, probate solutions, appraisals, auctions, consignments, cleaning, donations, estate sales, moving, sorting, packing, unpacking, redecorating, staging, recycling, as well as handyman contactor’s services.
Moving On! Services are licensed, insured, and bonded and have been since 1999.
And that’s how it is for Nancy Alberts. She treasures her clients as friends, values their belongings not only for their monetary worth but for the memories they hold, and uses her vast skills, training, expertise, and resources to help an older generation move into the next stage of their lives.
Nancy Alberts
Certified Senior Advisor (Ret.)
Moving On! Services LLC
Call for your free first visit.
(757) 393-1622
Moving On! Services LLC services all of Hampton Roads to Richmond, Virginia, Central Virginia, and areas east, including York and Gloucester County and the Eastern Shore. MOVING ON! provides a Single Point of Contact for as much or as little that needs to be done – related to the disposition of household items and personal property. First consultations are always free.
Our services include Downsizing Lifestyle Change, Appraisals and Auctions, Estate Liquidations, and Senior Move Specialists. Above all, we have the expertise for Aging in Place services. For example, Personal Shopping, Errand, Sort, Space Planning, Pack, Move, Unpack, Redecorate, Reorganize, Charitable Donations, Books & Bibles, Disposal of Surplus Possessions, Deep Cleaning, Organizing, and Redecorating.