We put our house up for sale about a year before we retired in case it took a while to sell it - - 3 days later it was sold! So we had to scramble and find a townhouse to rent for a year - which turned out to be a blessing for us - we down sized from 3500+ sq feet to 1400 sq ft to 389 sq ft. And because we weren't rushed, we took our time to find our motorhome, then had it out on some shake down cruises and we able to get rid of all of the stuff we needed to without much hassle. We gave our daughter all of the furniture, etc., as part of her inheritance. Shipped most of our art work to my sister & mother for safe keeping, gave a lot of books and other things to the college and then we moved into the coach over 2 weeks before my last day. Our only hiccup was Dave needing 3 stents implanted during those 2 weeks, but we managed to get through it all.
Barb