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Alzheimer’s Speaks: Resources

If you know of someone who is dealing with Alzheimer’s and dementia, or caregiving for them, direct them to Lori La Bey’s resources at Alzheimer’s Speaks. Nationally renowned Alzheimer’s and dementia expert Lori La Bey joins Suzanne to talk about educational videos, dementia quick tips, the Purple Angel Project, a list of dementia-friendly businesses, blog, caregiver roadmap, poetry, art, news, and more.

See these free resources and tools for caregivers. Listen and subscribe to Lori’s podcast.

Tips and Tools for Family Caregivers

Caring for an aging parent or other loved one over a period of time can be very challenging both physically and mentally. Fortunately, there are a number of tips and services you can turn to that can help lighten the load. Here are several to consider.

Grief and Seniors

Kelley Smith at CarePartners Senior Living joins Suzanne to talk about grief.

How many of us have lost loved ones during the pandemic, having illnesses resulting from the pandemic, taking care of spouses or loved ones who are struggling? We turn ourselves inside out while caring for a loved one. Kelley shares insights about grief, how people process grief, and how we can be better at supporting and helping those working through the grieving process.

How To Support Those Who Are Grieving

Kelley Smith at CarePartners Senior Living joins Suzanne to talk about grief. With the loss of a loved one, Kelley talks about how to support those who are in the grieving process.

How Senior Living Can Help Those Grieving

Grief can be overwhelming, and for seniors going through it, it’s a powerful effect on our bodies. Kelley Smith at CarePartners Senior Living talks to Suzanne about how to hep, buy paying attention, being available, taking action to support loved ones, honoring that they need time to work through the process. This segment talks about what a senior living community needs to know to provide the right help for someone working through the grieving process.

Action Steps to Support Those Who Are Grieving

Kelley Smith at CarePartners Senior Living has talked to Suzanne about senior dynamics and what families are going through regarding grief. This segment is about things to do, steps you can take, actions. Don’t offer advice unless they ask for it. They need someone to listen. It’s hard to be around someone who’s sad, but be nice, it’s better for them to be around people. It’s heartwarming to be invited somewhere even if you feel depressed enough not to want to get out of bed.

Eight Tips for Selling Your Home in a Changing Market, Part 4

Rebecca Bomann, CEO and founder of SASH Services, summarizes her eight tips to make your home sale more successful in a changing real estate market. See her previous segments in this hour for details about each of the tips.

People have seen price reductions and seeing a 45-day period to sell their home after the crazy seller’s market. Recently in the Pacific northwest, about 1,900 homes were new listings, while 2,100 reduced their price and 400+ canceled the listings. Your broker should bring this sort of data tailored to your specific local market, and their communication skills are of paramount importance. Homes sell every week of the year, every season, every economic cycle. If you didn’t list in the spring in summer, you don’t have to wait till next year. You can list on Thanksgiving. Rebecca once listed a house on December 23rd and got seven offers before the end of the year.

You can still have a successful sale if you follow the tips: 1) Presentation matters. 2) Study your competition. 3) Price in the sweet spot. 4) Broken should have a multifaceted marketing plan. 5) Interview potential real estate brokers. 6) Buyers can ask for concessions. 7) The best offer usually comes during the first week. 8) Be collaborative with potential buyers.

Find SASH Services at sashservices.com or sashrealty.com, or call 888-400-SASH.

Eight Tips for Selling Your Home in a Changing Market, Part 2

Continuing from part 1, SASH Services founder Rebecca Bomann provides more tips to make your home sale more successful in a changing real estate market.

2) Study your competition. Look at who is listing their home now, how are they priced, how do they compare to your home. Swipe through photos on real estate apps.

3) Price your home in the sweet spot: not so high that nobody comes to see it, not so low that you feel you left money on the table. Pick your sale price one or two days before listing, not earlier. Buyers are very well educated, can easily check comparative prices on their phones, can tell if a house is priced too high, or how many price drops you’ve had. Don’t base it on what your neighbor got six months ago; it must be priced based on current market data. If you get a lot of activity the first week, it’s priced right. If you have no offers after a few weeks, then it’s priced too high and it should be reduced 3-5 percent. The market never lies.

4) Have a multifaceted marketing plan. You can’t just put it on the market and expect a flood of offers. Your real estate broker needs to earn their commission: Host 2-3 open houses the first week, some in twilight hours for people just off work; make gorgeous flyers on nice paper to show pride of ownership; make excellent video or virtual tours; promote online on social media and in real estate apps to drive traffic.

5) Interview potential real estate brokers. Research who you’re going with. How do they showcase other listings? Don’t just pick your nephew because they’re related. There’s so much at stake when the proceeds are going to fund your care for the rest of your life — you don’t want to leave money on the table.

Hear more tips in our next segment. Find SASH Services at sashservices.com or sashrealty.com, or call 888-400-SASH.

Eight Tips for Selling Your Home in a Changing Market, Part 1

The real estate has shifted since May. You can still enjoy a successful change in your home sale, but a few expectations have changed. Since the pandemic in March 2020, it’s been a frenzied seller’s market with high sale prices and multiple offers. You can always count on the market changing, and now the market is leveling to become less lopsided. 18% yearly appreciation, having to make offers on multiple homes, waiving inspections, waiving appraisals, non-refundable earnest money, with little inventory available for sale is not a sustainable situation. It was fun for sellers for a couple of years, but a balanced market where buyers have some leverage is a more stable market.

Rebecca Bomann, CEO and founder of SASH Services, provides tips to make your home sale more successful in a changing real estate market. You can still sell a home within a few days, but you need to follow guidelines to make that happen. 1) Presentation matters. During the seller’s market, you’d see sellers leaving garbage cans out in front of the house and brokers taking dark, fuzzy photos. Today, sellers need to present a clean, well-lit, uncluttered home. Put your home in its Sunday best. Pack up or sell some of the things you don’t need because it will photograph better, and insist on professional photography.

You don’t have to do all the work yourself. SASH Services can take care of the hard work, the downsizing, sprucing up, and moving parts so you can just worry about moving into your new destination. Hear more tips in the next segments.

Find SASH Services at sashservices.com or sashrealty.com, or call 888-400-SASH.

Eight Tips for Selling Your Home in a Changing Market, Part 3

Rebecca Bomann, CEO and founder of SASH Services, provides more tips to make your home sale more successful. Sellers should expect these things in a changing real estate market.

6) It’s OK for buyers to ask for concessions such as help with closing costs now that interest rates are rising. Buyers can ask for inspections and for repairs to be made prior to closing. Appraisal work orders are being seen now, all normal. Also, contingent sales — allowing extra closing time for the buyer to sell their home and lease options may come up. No seller should take offense; these are normal concessions.

7) The best offer usually comes during the first week. You will have the most traffic your first week. Don’t wait for a better one; don’t scare away the only buyer you have now in hopes of getting a different one, though you should encourage negotiation and multiple offers.

8) Take good care of your potential buyers. When you have one or two potential buyers, you want to be friendly, accommodating, and flexible. You both want to close the sale, so collaborate to tackle and solve obstacles together.

Hear some general market statistics and a summary of Rebecca’s tips in our next segment. Find SASH Services at sashservices.com or sashrealty.com, or call 888-400-SASH.