Selling Your House? Retirement Communities Offering Free Home Staging
Some retirement communities are helping people find the funds to move in by helping their current homes sell. We talked about one such offer in May. Sun Health Life Care Communities would try to sell your house—and even buy it if it didn’t sell within a certain time.
Sun Health isn’t the only retirement community to offer such help. But more typical are smaller types of aid, reports The Wall Street Journal:
The most common assistance being offered is among the least expensive: giving a home a fresh look. When David Barker, a retired engineer, was trying to sell his home in Independence, Mo., to move into John Knox Village, a continuing-care retirement community in Lee’s Summit, Mo., a consultant hired by John Knox spent hours staging Mr. Barker’s home at virtually no cost to him.
The house sold, and “afterward, the same John Knox consultant helped Mr. Barker downsize and move.” The article, “A Push to Turn ‘For Sale’ Into ‘Sold,’” says some assisted living communities are offering help as well. But there are precautions to take, it says–including, read the fine print.
You can search for retirement and assisted living communities in your area here.
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Leigh Ann Otte is a freelance writer who specializes in health and aging issues. She covers finding and paying for senior care for OurParents.
