After completing the Seniors Real Estate Institute (SREI) Senior Downsizing Coaching Skills Training, seven of my peers from across the country and I have been named Certified Senior Downsizing Coaches, qualified to provide professional guidance to longtime homeowners contemplating or planning late-life relocations. These moves are more complex, involving both emotional and logistical challenges not […]
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How to pay for assisted living, and more
Moving to an assisted living community is often a desirable option for many older adults seeking a simpler or more manageable lifestyle. Sometimes a move to assisted living, long term care, or memory care may even be necessary to remain as autonomous and independent as possible despite declines in physical or cognitive health. The question […]
New Year Goals or Resolutions?
Things are not always what they seem.
Every 55+ senior should visit a senior living community, not with the intent to cross it off the list as a possible living solution but to consider it as a viable choice for your retirement. The choices in senior living are many and varied and a surprising discovery for most is that they are not […]
Creating Your Legacy
Organizational guru and author of Let it Go, Downsizing Your Way to a Richer, Happier Life, Peter Walsh suggests that you can” turn downsizing into a rejuvenating life change”. One way to rejuvenate your life is to create your legacy that will be forever remembered by family and friends. So, if you are thinking about […]
Tips and Tricks to Downsizing
What does ready look like and how do I know if I’m ready?
These two questions often dominate when seniors consider making the transition from home ownership to an apartment or cottage in a senior community. The decision to go or stay where you are can be one fraught with what ifs. Wondering what you life might be like in your new home and wondering what you are […]
Downsizing: How to do it Smarter.
Let’s imagine you have done your homework and toured several different senior living communities and you have chosen the one for you. You signed the lease and now you have the timeline for your move. You are feeling great about your decision but as soon as you walk in your front door at home, you […]
How To Explore Senior Living Communities
Have you considered investigating the opportunities that await you in senior living communities? Maybe you have thought about senior living communities but don’t know where to start in your investigation or you don’t know the right questions to ask. At our next Seniors Living Smarter seminar, we will have a group of senior living professionals […]
Learn to Detect and Avoid Homeowner-Related Scams
Maybe you have received one of those suspicious emails from a destitute “family member” asking for money or you got a phone call from the “IRA” that says you haven’t paid your taxes… with all the email, mail and unsolicited phone calls, it is becoming more and more difficult to determine what is legitimate and […]