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Maybe if you have an estate sale company come to your house and go over all your belongings, they can advise your wife of the price they would bring on the market. Hearing it from someone in the business can be an eye opener for her, and maybe this will jump-start her into the culling process.

And maybe she will decide that the estate sale is the way to go, in which case you won't have to do much of anything at all, because they take care of everything, including the dispersal to charities of items not sold. I wish we had had the time to go that route.

I do not think that neighbors will report you for every little thing you do. True, we do have some people who dislike dogs, etc., but they are mainly in the minority and mostly only dislike the dog's owners because they allow their dogs onto others' property. If you are a responsible dog owner, you will not have a problem.

Our neighborhood, for example, is a live-and-let-live area. I think the majority are like that. Some of the newer areas may be different.

Two dachshunds would fit perfectly into a courtyard villa (they are fenced). You could have three bedrooms and two baths, and a (very) few of them have two-car garages.

Good luck to you!