Seattle

Welcome to a site for people who are connecting real estate to current changes in their lives; or trying to.

Do you know an elder who you think should make a move to a senior care facility?  They want to stay where they have lived for the last 40 years; it’s a familiar environment with a lifetime of memories.  Is it fair to intervene?

You have a life insurance policy. Can you use it to help pay for some of the costs of senior housing?

You’ve heard a little bit about reverse mortgages but they sound as complicated as one of our senior’s health care plans.  How can one ever come to understand these tools?

Have you come to a point where you think that you’d like to live in another part of the country or another part of the world?  Retirement funds are reasonably secure but this doesn’t seem like a good time to sell our primary residence.  The real estate market is so depressed; is it a good time to sell our home?  If we buy a home in another country, how do the currency exchange rates affect our investment?  How much have we really made on the investment in our home in the last 25 years?

This forum should be a powerful resource for exchanging information about one of our largest personal investments.  People are always saying that real estate used to be one of the best investments that they ever made.  That has changed in the last 18 months rather dramatically.  What is the real estate market like on Capitol Hill in Seattle Washington?  Let’s be honest; who knows where this will end up?  Let’s talk about it!