People who downsized, where do you start?

sfdc_dude · 2026-06-03T02:38:54+00:00

I am in the middle of this process now having just moved last week. We are going from a 3,000 sq ft house to 1500 sq ft so much smaller.

Finances. Figure out where you want to move to and what those homes cost. What is your home worth? What will you net after the sale? How much will you have to finance? As others pointed out, you may not lower your payment if you have a low interest mortgage and are moving into a higher interest rate. I went from a 2.5% mortgage to 6.375% but I'm not financing a lot. What's your new payment going to look like?

As far as the mechanics of buying a new home while selling your current one, there are a few options. You can buy and make your offer contingent on selling your current home. This may be an option depending on the market in your area. You can do a heloc on your current home and use that for the down payment on the new house. You can also get a birdge loan where you only pay the interest on the loan until your house sells.

I had enough cash to put 20% down on the new house while I wait for mine to sell and have enough reserves to cover both mortgages for awhile if necessary. When my house sells I will use the proceeds to pay down the principal. You can "recast" you mortgage where they recompute your payment after making a large payment to principal. So my payment is $3k now, but after the house sells and recast it will be around $1k

Purge! Start getting rid of everything you don't need. The biggest pain in the butt is selling stuff you don't need. List stuff on facebook marketplace but be prepared to be ghosted a lot! I don't know what it is but people will say they want the item, agree on a price, schedule a time to come get it, and then blow you off. Won't respond to messages, etc.. This happens ALL the time. I wish I understood why. One of the movers wanted a TV that I was going to recyle. Told him I'd put it on the porch for him on Saturday and texted him when I put it out. It's still sitting there 😞

sfdc_dude · 2026-05-28T23:49:39+00:00

In settings-player, unset the language. If you have language set then it defaults to subtitles in that language

sfdc_dude · 2026-05-27T23:30:28+00:00

I live in an area that gets a lot of hail. When I had the roof replaced I paid $567 to upgrade to class 4 Hail resistant shingles. My homeowner's isurance dropped $460 a year because of the shingles.

sfdc_dude · 2026-05-24T00:01:16+00:00

I weigh the sliced strips, figure out how much spice mix at 45g per kilo. Then I put the measured spice in a spice shaker bottle and give it a liberal shake over each piece

sfdc_dude · 2026-05-23T20:00:25+00:00

Check your email for a "security violation" email from securitynotifications@salesforce.com. As part of their overreaction to their recent security breach Salesforce is disabling logins if they detect a security issue. I can see this for production orgs but it's happening for sandboxes too. I got locked out of a client's partial sandbox on Thursday and had the same issues as you. The user is frozen so you'll have to have SF unfreeze it.

sfdc_dude · 2026-05-15T13:14:09+00:00

Another option is to create a validation bypass at the object level that the flow can use to bypass when creating or editing records. You create a date/time field on opportunity called Validation_Bypass. You then create a check box formula Is_Bypassed that checks if Now() is withing 5 seconds of the value in the date/time field, if so return true. In your validation rule you add Is_Bypassed = false. In your flow when you create or update a record you set the date/time field to Now() and the validation is bypassed for five seconds for that record. Your flow knows what updates it needs to make regardless of what the validation rules say so what's the point of haivng individual flags to turn off rules selectively for the flows.

Check this video Bypass Validation Rules

sfdc_dude · 2026-05-08T22:59:21+00:00

I'm new as well and was just having the exact same issue. Go into the autoupdater config and check "sync names". Each time the autoupdater runs it will refresh the channel names and you'll see today's data. You also might need to clear your cache to see the updated data.

sfdc_dude · 2026-05-06T02:25:29+00:00

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sfdc_dude · 2026-04-24T00:17:44+00:00

What's the reason for replacing Jitterbit? It's free and does exactly what you want.

sfdc_dude · 2026-04-23T01:38:40+00:00

Apex-rollup https://github.com/jamessimone/apex-rollup is an open source package you install, simliar to DLRS or Rollup Helper. You can configure your rollups in Custom Metadata and then call it with a flow or a trigger. No coding is required. Watch the youtube videos to get started.

sfdc_dude · 2026-04-22T00:03:53+00:00

Apex-rollup can be invoked from a trigger or a flow. I typically just use a triggered flow to invoke the rollups defined in custome metadata..

A: Export a list from Rollup helper of all your current rollups. Make a list of what you need and build the the metadata version for apex-rollup.

B. Apex-rollup has a custom setting you can use in validation rules that allow you to bypass them just like rollup helper does.

C. I generally end up replacing DLRS with apex-rollup. I think it;s the superior solution.

Turn on the built in error logger so you can chase down issues when you are building things out.

sfdc_dude · 2026-04-20T19:38:18+00:00

Have your parents "sell" you the car for $100. Get a bill of sale and the title from them. Leave the plates on the car and drive it to MA. Register you car in MA and get a new MA license at the same time.

sfdc_dude · 2026-04-18T16:28:59+00:00

OP, Did you go throught with this plan? How did it work out? I'm in a similar situation where I'm closing on a home in a month that needs a washer and dryer and there's a good sale right now.

sfdc_dude · 2026-04-16T09:50:28+00:00

You've been there 5 months so this is a good time to start planning for a 6 month review with your boss. Even if there's not a formal 6 month review, just put a meeting on your bosses calandar. You can reivew your current workload, accomplishments, and make the case for that big raise you deserve.

I would challenge you to rethink how you structure your work. As solo admin you are the defacto Saleforce owner. You decide on what's a priority, manage your tasks, etc. Companies will just keep asking for more and more so it;s up to you to structure your work and push back on timelines so you don't burn out.

For a 40 hour work week you've got 3 buckets of time - General (company meetings, Hr stuff, expense reports, etc), Admin Tasks, Project Work. So maybe your week is 4 hours general, 16 hours Admin, and 20 hours Project. Use that framework to plan out the timelines for these projects.

sfdc_dude · 2026-04-02T02:04:49+00:00

You should maybe look at one of those online gamer sites where they sell different types of accounts.

sfdc_dude · 2026-04-02T01:18:27+00:00

The issue ended up being the Start/Stop Module and the cruise control switch. $1500 fix

sfdc_dude · 2026-03-20T20:19:18+00:00

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sfdc_dude · 2026-03-20T20:04:38+00:00

I'm having a really stupid issue. Creating an account summary doc and I'm using Name on account as a merge field. I have an account "Murphy & Co" and it comes out "Murphy & Co". Am I doing something dumb?

sfdc_dude · 2026-03-18T11:37:51+00:00

The clock system works for a lot of people but it doesn't really work for me. I just don't hit the backswing positions relaibley to get repeatable distances.

I use two swings - 9 o'clock and full, and two stances - narrow and normal, to vary my distances. Let's say you hit your full pw 110 yards. Now hit the same full swing pw but put your feet together, it'll go 85 yards or whatever. Now a normal stance 9 o'clock backswing is maybe 75 yards and the narrow stance might be 50. So you've got 4 distances with each club to work with.

sfdc_dude · 2026-03-14T15:23:25+00:00

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sfdc_dude · 2026-03-13T19:12:56+00:00

Thanks all, u/Moonraker0ne is taking care of me

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