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many seniors decide to sell their homes
for economic and practical reasons but
many find the idea of moving their
belongings extremely stressful
yeah from sorting belongings packing and
setting up your new home downsizing can
be extremely difficult and joining us
now with tips on how seniors can
downsize easily we have Tony sell ID and
a senior real estate specialist and
downsizing expert thanks so much for
coming on thank you I'm glad to be here
on grand and village day so what are the
statistics of the seniors in the country
today there are over a hundred million
seniors now that includes our baby
boomers and many of them are considering
downsizing okay or they're moving their
parents from that large home into that
smaller home that's more manageable yeah
and when it comes to downsizing you
really need to do it correctly and if
you need to have fun and it needs to be
easy but I'll tell you I was high I was
hanging by the pool one day having
tomorrow Marty margarita excuse me and
my sister calls I get this urgent call
and she says you've got to get to mom
and dad now why what happened
dad's in the hospital mom's home alone
well mom can't be home alone mom has
Alzheimer's so I hope to catch a flight
out immediately and get there I packed
for two days I stay for three months
I've got to get them all sorted through
selling a home and downsizing and it
wasn't fun and it wasn't easy
so you've experienced this firsthand
firstly get into this absolutely and my
mission now is to help families not have
a crisis take care of things before the
crisis get downsized get into a safer
more manageable place and there are
three mistakes you need to avoid yeah
the first mistake is the fortune cookie
Confucius say never move without plan
now most people are moving during a
crisis and you can't do that the second
mistake is the macaulay culkin we all
remember him from home alone never do it
alone you've got to have a team it used
to take a village it now takes a team of
elder law professionals financial
advisors senior real estate specialist
just to name a few and the third mistake
is the Winston Churchill his most famous
speech never never
gave up and most people do they shut
down and give up before they even get
started either it's too much work or
they think they're losing their
independence but really they're gaining
a lot of freedoms okay yeah because with
my parents they've been in their house
forever and they will not move there's a
lot of seniors like that too bright it's
just too many memories well that is true
but there is a way to avoid the mistakes
and have a very fun easy move yeah first
of all it's a plan you have to have a
plan P is prepare in advance you need to
talk to those professionals the elder
attorneys financial planners get the
facts the figures and all these
documents before you need them and then
L is for let everyone know what you want
if your family doesn't know what's
important to you they're not mind
reader's so they don't know so have a
meeting with them when the parents are
in their sixties the kids are in their
40s fill out something and let make sure
everyone knows where to get it and a is
for acknowledge the safety concerns
falling is the number one accident and
seniors so you need to clear out the
floor get rid of those stacks of papers
and all the the boxes and things that
are in your way throw rugs throw them
out they are not anything but dangerous
so and the last one is never is in and
that's I'm gonna ask you guys to help
you with that it's never give up that
youthful heart all right it's all about
having the best of the rest yeah and
it's so important for people to get the
details avoid the mistakes have a plan
and make the best of the rest yes what's
your website so we can send people there
it's Lydon Senior pathways ly D o n
senior pathways