So, I am updating, as I am now 18 months out from going. I have begun a clean out of my house and belongings, slowly, as I still need to live here for a bit. Cavalier just bought my multicade arcade in fact. Wife's company has been slow to understand the types of visas we need and I likely need to become more involved in pushing them forward since our leave date is not flexible. I can't believe this company has never transferred an employee to another company. They recently came back and said she may not qualify for a work visa since she doesn't have a 3 year degree, from Italy. Well, how would she? I thought they would be engaging an outside consultant for this, so I need to better understand what they are doing. On the extreme bright side, her direct manager and her client liaison are both extremely supportive of this move and have stated they'll do whatever necessary to ensure this happens. That is great, but I need to get the visa thing settled to understand if they need to set up a Regis or WeWork type of office for her for payroll and logistics purposes. I also need to understand my via as a trailing spouse. We are going to Italy for 22 days in May/June to find our new forever home and hope to have something located at that time. We pay off our mortgage on our main house this march and our goal is to grab a HELOC so that we can buy the property in Italy for cash and make pressurized cash offers to people. With brexit looming, many brits are looking to cash out of their properties, since they'll lose free EU transit and a visa will be required for them.
If anyone has relocated and used an advisory firm, please let me know. I will update here every so often, but if anyone is curious about anything, post questions here.