Advance Planning for Real Estate

Your Journey, Our Expertise.

Whether you're buying your first home, a family planning to move, or a senior thinking about downsizing, advance planning is essential for achieving your real estate goals. We're here to support you at every stage of your journey. Our team offers personalized advice, support, and expert resources designed to meet your unique needs and aspirations.

Expertise Across Generations: With our extensive experience in real estate, we understand that your home is more than just a property. It's a pivotal part of your life's story. That's why we cater to individuals and families at all life stages, ensuring each client receives personalized, attentive service.

Senior Real Estate Specialists® (SRES®): Our designation as Senior Real Estate Specialists® (SRES®) reflects our commitment to clients aged 50 and over. We're not just real estate advisors; we're life transition specialists who understand the unique challenges and opportunities that come with aging. We provide more than just real estate advice; we offer a comprehensive approach to align your living situation with your overall life plan.

Commitment to Your Dreams: Our goal is to help you find a home that aligns with your dreams and aspirations, no matter your stage in life. We're dedicated to guiding you through the complexities of real estate, ensuring a stress-free and successful experience. 

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Planning for Selling: Downsizing, Decluttering, and Home Repairs

You may be looking to downsize to a smaller, more manageable property. This often involves moving from a family home to a condo, apartment, or retirement community, with the goal of reducing maintenance responsibilities and possibly freeing up equity from a larger family home. For those who wish to declutter their homes, sorting through a lifetime's accumulation of belongings can be a daunting task. Before selling, it also may be important to ensure that your home is in good working order, as addressing necessary repairs can significantly enhance its market appeal and value. With support from our team of trusted professionals, we have successfully assisted many homeowners through each of these processes and stand by ready to help you too.

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Planning for Transition: Needs, Dreams, and Bucket Lists

Throughout the various stages of life, we often encounter moments of significant transition, where finding a home that aligns with our evolving needs, hopes, and dreams becomes paramount. These life transitions aren't limited to retirement; they can occur at any time.  You might be looking for a multi-generational floor plan to accommodate your growing family, seeking a space with a home office to balance work and life, dreaming of a location that brings you closer to loved ones or new opportunities, or considering a move to a 55+  senior living community.  With our comprehensive local, national, and international real estate connections, we are equipped to assist you at every step of your journey, ensuring you find the right-fit home, wherever it may be.

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Planning for Health & Aging: Home Accessibility and Adaptations

Health and aging can often restrict full accessibility within a home. Challenges such as raised thresholds may increase fall risks, doorknobs can become tough to maneuver, and stairs might turn daunting. The solution to enhancing safety and accessibility in these areas can sometimes be straightforward, like adding grab bars in bathrooms, flattening thresholds for easier movement, installing brighter lighting for better visibility, and fitting higher toilets for added comfort. In certain cases, it may be time to consider a new home better suited to your needs.  We have specialists who are well-versed in universal design principles, ensuring that modifications to your current home are not only practical but also aesthetically pleasing and inclusive. We are also adept at finding you the ideal home, one that harmonizes practicality with your unique lifestyle requirements.

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Planning for Illness or Incapacity

In the event that you become ill or incapacitated, it may be necessary for another family member or person to have the authority to make legally-binding decisions regarding your home. To facilitate this, important legal documents (e.g., power of attorney or trust) should be signed before any incapacity occurs.  We recommend conferring with an attorney to prepare these documents in advance. With respect to the disposition of real estate, our team specializes in assisting relatives of incapacitated and deceased individuals. Our team can help clear, repair, and sell properties, aiming to enhance the estate's value. Throughout this sensitive journey, we offer compassion, understanding, and support, recognizing the emotional challenges involved at a difficult time.

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Financial Planning

Real estate is a vital component of financial planning at every stage of life, not just during retirement. It's important to understand how changes in your housing situation can significantly impact your overall financial standing. To support you in navigating these complex decisions, our comprehensive network includes skilled financial planners, CPAs, loan officers, and mortgage specialists. With their expertise, we'll help you navigate challenging issues like the financial consequences of selling your home, how taxation will affect sales proceeds and other sources of income or benefits, how the sale of your home will affect your estate, the pros/cons of reverse mortgages, and different options for financing or paying for your next home.

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Legal Planning

Various legal issues may arise when buying or selling a home and our team includes attorneys and counselors with expertise in various legal areas to help cover a vast array of transaction specific questions.  Beyond transaction legal issues that may arise, our team also includes attorneys to help you structure legal documents and transactions in a way that protects your assets, benefits, and rights.  The attorneys may have expertise in elder law, estate planning, tax law, government benefit programs, powers of attorney, advance medical directives, and more. Our goal is to empower you to make the right decisions and actions for your near and long-term benefit.

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Property, Personal, and Health-Care Experts to Assist You

In addition to the financial and legal experts mentioned above, we have established a vast network of trusted professionals to assist you.  Our network of  property-related experts includes to name just a few:  clutter reduction experts, housekeepers, estate sale companies, senior move managers, space organizers, handymen, and general contractors.  Our network of personal and healthcare experts includes home health care agencies, elder care consultants, volunteer/community service contacts, and more.  Our broad network of contacts stand ready and willing to support you.

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