You CAN Take it With You!

You CAN Take it With You!

By:  Brenda Lecco, Marketing Director
Encore at Avalon Park

 When we are young, buying our first home, we choose a home that will be a nice place to raise a family. We think about school districts, floor plans, resale value and where we’re going to put the pool. We don’t think about the feasibility of growing old in that home.  Many seniors find that the home that offered a lot of space for raising children and entertaining grandchildren has become too much for them to care for as they age- especially the upstairs!  For the majority of seniors, health and finances drive their housing options.  It is often a health problem, particularly a fall, that creates an awareness that perhaps the current home may not be suitable for their changing health needs. Once we find that ideal home for the next phase of life we are faced with the challenge of downsizing.  Sometimes downsizing becomes the biggest hurdle we face when transitioning to senior living.  The old way of thinking is that everything has to go.

Well, I’m here to tell you that you CAN take it with you!  There is a whole branch of the senior living industry that is devoted to helping seniors sell their homes and downsize. These professionals have moving down to an art and a science.  The National Association of Senior Move Managers has a comprehensive network of professional that are dedicated to taking the “daunting” out of downsizing.

Please join us this month at our Family Education Seminar on moving featuring Veronica Figueroa from Remax Avalon Park and Susan Peoski from Creating Divine Order.