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So it looks like it's finally happening--I'm planning to move my family to Lincoln. w00t!!! However, I have decidedly more stuff and people and animals and vehicles and...etc... to consider than when I moved down with all my belongings in the back of my vehicle. A couple of decades will do that to ya. So, has anyone done an interstate move? Anything they would do over again if they could? Anything to avoid? People to use? Current thoughts/ideas we have: I figure valuables (e.g. guns, electronics, gaming systems) and pets we'd move ourselves. We would sell our existing living room and master bedroom furniture (it's old) and buy new when we get to Lincoln (here we come Schafer's...) We're already starting to purge and will have the mother of all garage sales later this spring... We have a Lincoln realtor we were working with last year...but then my work status was thrown into flux. That's settled now, so we're back on the hunt...but maybe we're too early looking for a home Thing is, I'm also not sure if the move will pan out, and our home value in DFW is growing by major leaps and bounds...so I'd hate to sell it. Maybe refinance (to lower mortgage) and rent it out (and hire a property mgmt. company?) so we can hold on to it...and just take a loan out against equity for the new home? All sorts of questions, and I'm not sure where to go or what the right answers are...so any help or guidance would be appreciated.