Sunnyside Senior Transition Services

Sunnyside Senior Transition Services Sunnyside Senior Transitions is a full service company helping older adults transition from homes to the next level of care or help them age in place.

Sunnyside Senior Transitions helps seniors move and transition to the next level of care or help them age in place. From finding the new home to light packing and unpacking to selling the former home, one call does it all.

04/21/2025

Thank you so much for all of your help moving my mom. My sisters and I felt so much relief knowing that you would take care of everything, especially all of the donations and extra furniture. At a very stressful and emotional time, you really lifted our hearts. Thank you so much!
Linda, JoEllen and Nancy

04/21/2025

Recently my octogenarian parents decided they needed to be closer to family, which was going to involve a move to another state and a massive downsizing project. Sunnyside’s services were recommended to them by friends. They hired Colleen and Sunnyside for a fixed fee that, frankly, I thought seemed like an extraordinary amount of money. That was until I saw her in action and realized the value she brought. She was at my parent's house for half a day, two or three times a week, from January until move day on April 1. She did all the heavy lifting of the downsize - selling furniture, taking donations to charities, packing boxes, and took care of disposing of what couldn’t be sold, donated or shipped. She arranged for the movers plus transportation of their car. She packed everything that was left in the house, and worked with the moving company to make sure the house was empty. My parents waved at the unloaded moving truck approaching their house as they headed to the airport, and then saw their stuff when it was delivered at 9 am sharp two days later. Amazing. She even had an ink stamp made with their new address! I honestly don’t think this move would have happened without her and Sunnyside, and I am SO grateful. In fact, in retrospect she would be a bargain at twice the price!

Sylvia
Happy daughter
Bellingham, WA

07/25/2024

A note from Helen:
As time goes by I realize how lucky I was to have you both, you sold my house in record time and at full price- amazing! Colleen, you were so very helpful and you even realized what sentimental items I treasured and treated them appropriately. My family is still talking about the move! Hugs, Helen

Just moved these two lovely ladies. Lots of fun, lots of laughs and creative energy. They say Im their best kept secret....
07/08/2022

Just moved these two lovely ladies. Lots of fun, lots of laughs and creative energy. They say Im their best kept secret. Imagine moving in with everything working and no boxes to be seen. Hence their love and smiles. Call Sunnyside Senior Transition Services at 530-816-0007.

03/28/2022

Hi Colleen,
Thank you for all of your help over the years with all the moves for our mother. It was truly a life saver finding you! We are finally all moved to Oregon now!
Linda and Jim

02/18/2022

You richly blessed our hearts the moment we set eyes on mom's room. She walked through with such attention and warmth. I too hope mom with find something special at Eskaton. Thank you for how specific and intentional you were--Two little angels you are!

Colleen Trotter is a wonder of nature. She is high energy, focused, wise, kind, brilliant, and has a great sense of humo...
10/22/2021

Colleen Trotter is a wonder of nature. She is high energy, focused, wise, kind, brilliant, and has a great sense of humor. She is great with both the big picture and all the details. A rare combination. She's a terrific communicator- with clients, movers, and people who respond to post of things for sale.
One of Colleen's many superpowers is that she asks all the important questions:
Why are you keeping that?
Where will it go in the new house?
Can I take that to thrift?
Can I post that to sell?

We are a couple who have been together for more than 15 years but living in different houses. Colleen helped us with clearing stuff out of both households for our "purge and merge". She did a diagram of the house we were merging into so we could decide what furniture to keep, what to get rid of, and where things would go.
She scheduled the movers, did the packing, handled all the moving logistics and was with us on moving day. She started unpacking things at the destination house, and made sure our bed was set up and ready to fall into at the end of moving day.
After the time of our contract she continued to take things to thrift and post things to sell as we did a second phase of purging after the move.
Colleen is like an orchestra conductor. She is a master and a genius at coordinating lots of moving parts and players. If we ever think about moving again, our first call will be to Colleen. And if she has retired by then, we'll probably decide to stay put.

Are you thinking about moving? We've just completed a move to a senior community. With much needed assistance from Colle...
10/20/2021

Are you thinking about moving? We've just completed a move to a senior community. With much needed assistance from Colleen Trotter, founder of Sunnyside Senior Transition Services, we arrived in our new home in the middle of September. After 20 years in our 3 bedroom 3 car garage home, you can imagine the downsizing and energy required to complete the move.
Colleen's energy, drive, good humor, knowledge, and facilitating on our behalf were invaluable. Her warmhearted encouragement urged us on when we thought, "I can't possibly do all this again!".
When she arrived she'd pick up our hazardous waste, shredding that needed doing, donations, and e waste disposal, delivering unneeded; prescriptions for disposal, saving us time and energy.
Colleen helped with address changes, helped lay out a plan for furniture arrangement and has a very competent group of women I call The Dream Team for moving in day. They stocked the kitchen, arranged items in the dining room on shelves, made the bed, put the linen closet in order, and arranged the bathrooms. Colleen also hired a careful, hard working moving team. All in all it's been a very successful venture. I wouldn't hesitate for a moment in recommending Colleen Trotter to anyone preparing for a similar move. Richard and Barbara K.

Downsizing, simplifying are concepts seniors hold as "shoulds" for aging. And yes, they are actions worth considering. I...
06/20/2021

Downsizing, simplifying are concepts seniors hold as "shoulds" for aging. And yes, they are actions worth considering. I called Colleen then a good friend insisted because at 73 I wasn't a typical senior- not me. I could handle it. The reality was something else.
Colleen showed up with ideas and resources, strategies and energy. As I was sinking into overwhelm, she came in and infused the experience with positive problem solving, acute listening skills, and kind attention.
Alan, Sue and Jax

Moving is never easy, especially in our later years. We need all the help we can get. Colleen Trotter, owner of Sunnysid...
03/09/2021

Moving is never easy, especially in our later years. We need all the help we can get. Colleen Trotter, owner of Sunnyside Senior Transition Services, provides all the services you would need and then more. She will pack, and unpack everything in your house and hire movers to take everything to your new home. Then she will arrange and unpack everything in your new home. This includes hanging artwork, arranging furniture, placing clothes in the right closets. She will have your phones , computer, and tv hooked up and ready to use.
She will also arrange change of address and all the little things you won’t have to do to complete your move .
Colleen makes moving worry free.

When I told my doctor that I was about to move back East, she suggested I contact Colleen Trotter. So I did just that an...
02/21/2021

When I told my doctor that I was about to move back East, she suggested I contact Colleen Trotter. So I did just that and it's one of the best decisions I have ever made. In my advancing 70's, Covid and the California fires made me realize that it was time for me to move closer to my family. But, to go through the process of moving filled me with dread.
Then I met Colleen, and my dread was replaced with cheerful optimism. She immediately showed me that she was indefatigable and helped me downsize. At the end of each day she would depart with her car filled with things to donate. She introduced me to people who would pay for my books and those treasures I had clung to for so many years but which I no longer needed.
Then came the stage of packing, and Colleen wrapped, packed, taped and labeled with precision and care. She even introduced me to someone on the other end who will unpack, put away and remove all the packing materials.
I recommend Colleen to other seniors who need to move. You will enjoy her company, value her carefulness, be amazed at her boundless energy, and, when she reminds you to sit down and rest and drink some water or eat your lunch, you will be happy to obey.
Ellen

09/05/2020

Recently I moved from my home in Lake Wildwood, California to an apartment in Azle, Texas. A friend of mine suggested I contact Colleen Trotter to assist in making a successful move. After a discussion with Colleen I decided her assistance would be invaluable to me. Initially she provided me with a comprehensive checklist identifying all the many tasks required for a successful move and identifying who was responsible for each item. Colleen then proceeded to locate, appropriately wrap and pack each item with the contents of the box properly identified and moved to and securely positioned in the POD located outside the house. I wish to add that all the contents of the move arrived without any damage and safely in Texas. Another task was to contact the many services associated with the move and notify them of the change of address. In closing I add that Colleen was knowledgeable, easy to work with, helpful in so many ways and without her assistance I don't believe I would have had the successful move.
Sincerely,
Don H.

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Penn Valley, CA
95946

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(530) 816-0007

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