The Portland Relocation Command Kit
A practical, polished guide to choosing the right area, planning your move, and feeling at home in Portland.
Relocating to Portland can feel exciting—and overwhelming. There are neighborhoods to compare, moving details to manage, utilities to set up, and countless decisions that all seem to happen at once.
The Portland Relocation Command Kit gives you a clear, organized way to handle it all.
Created by Portland-area real estate broker Cindy Main, this premium digital workbook helps you move beyond generic online research and create a plan around your real life: your commute, housing budget, household needs, routines, lifestyle, and priorities.
Whether you are moving from across Oregon or across the country, this is your practical companion for exploring Portland, Cedar Mill, Beaverton, Bethany, Hillsboro, and surrounding communities with more clarity and confidence.
Inside the kit
Portland-area neighborhood overviews, including Cedar Mill, Beaverton, Bethany, Hillsboro, and a Portland neighborhood shortlist.
A neighborhood scorecard to compare up to four areas side by side.
A printable neighborhood-visit worksheet for evaluating homes, streets, errands, parking, transit, and daily routines.
A needs, wants, and tradeoffs worksheet to clarify your home search.
A 60-day move timeline, moving budget worksheet, and move-day planning checklists.
An address-specific utility setup worksheet for electricity, gas, water, sewer, garbage, recycling, internet, and insurance.
Clickable official resource links for Portland-area utilities, transit, DMV updates, local agencies, libraries, parks, schools, emergency preparedness, and more.
A Pacific Northwest rain-ready moving checklist.
A first-week and first-30-days settle-in plan.
A home-records binder checklist, emergency-ready home card, and entryway-planning worksheet.
Printable moving labels and dedicated move-notes pages.
Why this is different
Most relocation guides give you a list of things to do. This kit helps you make better decisions.
Instead of trying to choose a neighborhood from a map or organize your move from scattered browser tabs, you will have a single, elegant system to:
Identify what “home” needs to support for your household.
Narrow your neighborhood shortlist based on everyday life—not assumptions.
Compare locations in a structured, personal way.
Prepare for the practical details that often get missed during a move.
Feel more settled, more quickly, once you arrive.
Perfect for
Buyers relocating to the Portland metro area.
Families moving to Portland for work, lifestyle, or a new chapter.
Renters planning a move within the Portland area.
Anyone considering Cedar Mill, Beaverton, Bethany, Hillsboro, or Portland neighborhoods.
People who want a calm, high-quality moving plan before the boxes arrive.
What you’ll receive
One premium digital PDF workbook.
27 pages of printable planning tools, worksheets, checklists, and local resources.
Clickable links to relevant official Portland-area resources.
Immediate access after purchase.
Important note
This is a digital product. No physical item will be mailed.
