You don't have to
leave California.
A second home, the winters, downsizing, or the move itself. Here is how it actually works, and what it would take.
Tell me what you're picturing.
I'll tell you what it would take.
Not a listing search. A conversation about whether the version in your head is the version that exists.
Five questions, two minutes, and then a real answer: what that plan costs, what it requires, and what nobody mentions until you are already in it.
It usually takes one of four shapes.
Almost everyone who calls is somewhere on this list, even if they would not have put it this way. Plenty of people turn out to be two of them at once.
A place you go
A few weeks a year. You keep everything in California and add a second address you use when you want it. The smallest version of this, and the one most people actually start with.
Winters
November through April there, the rest here. It changes what you need from the property, what you need from the building, and how the tax question gets answered.
Downsizing
The house here is bigger than the life in it now. Miami is the version with less to maintain and more of the year spent outside. What you give up in square footage you tend to get back in how much of the place you actually use.
The slow move
Miami becomes the main address eventually, but not this year. This is the one with the most moving parts, because the California sale has to line up with the Florida purchase.
There are two transactions.
Most people only get help with one.
Paula is licensed in California and handles the California side of the move herself: the sale, the timing, and the part where two transactions on opposite coasts have to line up.
That is usually the hardest thing about moving to Miami, and it is the half most people have no help with.
Every episode, newest first.
The questions people actually ask before they move, answered one at a time.
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New episodes as they publish. Each one answers a single question people ask before they move.
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One short letter a month on moving to Miami from California. Which neighbourhood suits which person, what an HOA actually covers, who is still there in August, and the things that only come up once you are in it.
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23 years of this.
Both coasts.
With 23 years in real estate and more than 900 transactions closed, Paula Aragone has moved over 200 families out of California, and owns property in Miami herself, which is a different kind of knowing than having read about it.
Paula is licensed in California and handles the California side of the move herself: the sale, the timing, and the part where two transactions on opposite coasts have to line up. On the Florida side she works alongside a licensed local specialist who handles everything in-state.
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(949) 415 4784 Call or Text PaulaPaula Aragone is licensed in California and does not provide real estate services in Florida. Florida real estate services are provided by Mariela Hopen, Douglas Elliman Real Estate, Florida license #3332321.
So, what are you picturing?
Five questions. Then a straight answer about whether the version in your head is the version that exists.
Paula Aragone · (949) 415 4784
Paula Aragone is licensed in California and does not provide real estate services in Florida. Florida real estate services are provided by Mariela Hopen, Douglas Elliman Real Estate, Florida license #3332321.