Where will my parent live?
This is the question the family is actually stuck on. I have spent three years inside Bay Area assisted living communities, and I help you compare them side by side.
The house is not the first decision.
I help Bay Area families move a parent into assisted living, and I handle the family home that gets left behind.
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Four questions, taken in this order.
Most families start at question four, the house. They stay stuck there for months. When we take the questions in order, each answer makes the next one easier.
How do we pay for it?
Move-in costs, monthly costs, and what the home might contribute. I walk you through how other families have put the pieces together and connect you with the right professionals for the rest.
What do we do with everything in the house?
Forty years of belongings. Sorting, keeping, donating, clearing. My team and vendor partners handle it with you, at your pace, and nothing leaves without your say.
What do we do with the house?
Repairs, preparation, and the sale itself. By the time we get here, the hard decisions are already made, and this part is simply work.
Why I start with the community
The house can wait. Where your parent lives cannot.
No community pays me. My read on a place is not for sale.
For the last three years I have helped Bay Area families compare assisted living options. I have walked the halls, sat in the dining rooms, and asked the questions families do not think to ask until after move-in day.
No community pays me, and I do not earn a fee from anywhere your parent chooses. I help you compare the options clearly, so the decision stays yours and it is made with the full picture.
Once that question is settled, everything else falls into order. The money, the belongings, and the house.
Talk it through with RichardJust a conversation. Nothing to sign.
The second half
The part nobody wants to handle.
The contents
Decades of belongings do not sort themselves. My team and vendor partners handle the decluttering and the clear out with you, room by room.
The repairs
Most long-held homes need work before they sell. I coordinate the cleaning, repairs and any remodeling through vendor partners I have worked with before. In most cases the cost is paid from the sale, not out of pocket.
The move
The move itself is managed for you, from the packing to the day your parent's things are set up in the new place.
The sale
Then the house. Priced, prepared and sold, with the capital gains questions raised early and the right professionals brought in to answer them.
About Richard
I have sat on your side of this table.
My parents lived in their home into their late 80s. For years they supported each other there, and for a long time that worked. Then it reached the point where they could not stay there safely together. Our family went through the whole transition, the community search, the belongings, the house, and I remember how little of it felt clear at the time.
Around the same time, more and more of my clients were seniors and their families facing the same set of questions. Most agents only cared about selling the house. I built my practice around everything else, so a family is not left on their own to figure it out.
Richard Fleming, Realty ONE Group Future
Eight weeks, beginning to end.
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Someone I know was 80 when they realized they could no longer manage their home on their own. They wanted to move into a senior care community. I helped with every part of the transition and sold the house.
- 1Identified the community
- 2Completed the application
- 3Cleared and prepared the house
- 4Managed the move
- 5Sold the home
What I handle
One point of contact instead of five vendors. My team, my vendor partners and I carry each part of this so the family does not have to.
- Community comparison
- Contents and clear out
- Repairs through vendor partners
- The sale itself
See what the options actually areNo pressure to list anything. Ever.
There is no deadline here.
Some families call me the week the hospital calls them. Others call a year before anything has to change. Either way, you leave the conversation knowing what the options are and the order to take them in. If you decide to wait, that is a good outcome too.
Walk me through where to startA short call. That is all this is.