Real Estate for Seniors

Evaluate Your Retirement Savings

November 15, 2011 by Lorri Molnar · Leave a Comment 

The right time to think about financing your retirement is now! It’s never the wrong time to take a look at your finances and consider the future. And it’s always a good time to take a look and reevaluate the plans you’ve already made and implemented to ensure that your money is working hard enough [...]

Home Automation that Helps

May 10, 2011 by teamadmin · Leave a Comment 

These days there’s “smart” everything: smart cars, smart phones, and yes, smart homes. Never heard of that last one? Well, it’s not a new concept. You’re proud, you are independent, and you want to keep living in your own home, or find a home you can safely live in; right? This is where good advice, [...]

Roving Chefs Deliver Seniors’ Daily Bread

May 2, 2011 by teamadmin · Leave a Comment 

A personal chef can allow Seniors with special diets or health issues to stay in their own homes and choose not to enter an assisted living facility. Many times, families begin looking at assisted living facilities because a Senior is recovering from an illness or surgery, or because of a challenging change in dietary requirements [...]

Intergenerational Households are on the Rise

July 14, 2010 by Lorri Molnar · Leave a Comment 

Intergenerational households are on the rise. With families making a shift to stay closer, children taking care of parents, a changing economy, and many adult children returning home, real estate agents across the country are seeing an increase in sales of homes to intergenerational families. Planning and some simple guidelines can help all generation in [...]

Reverse Mortgage Update

May 17, 2010 by teamadmin · Leave a Comment 

Recently, reverse mortgages have been in the news as the rules governing them have been changed. They are a financial device, a loan in fact, that allows homeowners who are 62 years old and older to convert their home equity into accessible funds in the form of incremental or lump-sum cash payments, or a line [...]

Universally Designed, Universally Appealing

April 5, 2010 by teamadmin · Leave a Comment 

By Elyse Umlauf-Garneau Sleek, chic and stylish. Those are rarely adjectives applied to products or properties that cater to an aging population. But universal design has evolved in ways that allow residential environments to be universally functional and universally appealing. For just one example of how slick universal design can be, see the kitchen options [...]