Today is an exciting day as I’m moving offices! I sold the building that I bought over three years ago to move the business closer to home. The commercial real estate market is still very tight here in Toronto but I managed to find an office for sale (I don’t believe in renting space and having money going down the drain every month).

This morning I’m off to sign the final papers to close the deal with the lawyer at 9:30. Then it’s off to the old office to pack everything up into the moving truck and then move everything into the new office this afternoon. It will be a whirlwind day as I decided to close both deal (selling old office and buying new one) as well as move all in the same day (not something I recommend highly).

My staff and family are helping me move - it’s definitely useful, as the graphic suggests, to make friends before you move as I couldn’t imagine doing it alone. Just sorting through three years worth of office stuff (junk) is time consuming enough - it’s hard to imagine how much you can accumulate over three years. Even though my business is online and we don’t have too many printed files, “stuff” still tends to pile up.

Moving closer to home will shave over an hour a day off my drive in and will definitely allow for a more productive work week. The space I’m getting is totally raw right now but it has big windows and granite floors. It’s on the third floor out of three and has a Starbucks on the ground level. I’m building out two offices and having one main open concept area. The contractor comes in on Monday (as well as the Internet company) to start working and he’ll hopefully be finished by the start of July.

I’m looking forward to the new space and writing more blog posts with my new view! Stay tuned for an exciting week of posts next week after I’ve worked my muscles moving today!

Enjoy the weekend!

Meet YoungEntrepreneur.com co-founder Adam Toren at this year's BlogWorld 2008!

Evan Carmichael
YoungEntrepreneur.com Blog Manager

Did you enjoy this article? If so, then subscribe to our RSS Feed.