December 27, 2025 • 43 mins
Listen in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, visits with Ben Souchek, owner of Home Downsizing Solutions. Ben reviews how to find a trusted real estate professional and introduces the new HDS Turn-Key Program, a comprehensive program addressing all your needs including selling your house, handling an estate sale for the contents, house clean out, pack and move services and more! The new HDS Turn-Key Program is like pressing the Easy Button when selling your house! Steve explains some client situations where his firm Senior Care Consulting is making a big difference. Senior Care Consulting is working with people who are outpacing the assisted living level of care and will need long term care very soon, people who are in assisted living and running out of money where they will soon need Medicaid and long term care, and people who are at home but will need to move to a care community soon. One mistake some will make is to delay their search until they are forced to move, due to a crisis… learn how to avoid this mistake! #SeniorCare #SeniorCareLive #SeniorCareConsulting #SeniorLiving #KansasCitySeniorCare #SeniorCarePlacement #SeniorCareAdvisor #Franchise #SeniorCareFranchise(800) 331-6445
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Are you caring for an aging loved one? Are you
a senior searching for answers? Welcome to Senior Care Live,
a program dedicated to you, providing information, education and resources
for seniors and their caregivers. And now America's Senior care consultant,
Steve Keecker, Hello and welcome to Senior Care Live.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I'm Steve Keeker. You're Senior Care Consultant and I really
appreciate you tuning in today. We have a wonderful program
on tap with my friend and special guest in studio.
He is mister Ben Socheck. He's the owner and operator
of a wonderful company called Home Downsizing Solutions, and Ben,
welcome back to Senior Care Life.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Hi Steve, thank you and is always great to be back.
And hopefully I can share some great information with the
listeners today.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Okay, and happy Holidays to you and your family.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Merry Christmas to you and all that are listening.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Absolutely so, and I can't believe we're I'm I mean,
we're there, so I don't know where the time goes,
and the older I get, the faster goes. Anyway, if
you'd like to reach out to Ben and and Home
Downsizing Solutions write this phone number down eight five five
two nine one five zero zero five, or you could
(01:17):
go online. It's a phenomenal website, Home downsizing dot com
and ben. So, why don't we just give a quick
recap of the services, the primary services offered by Home
Downsizing Solutions in case we have anyone in the audience
that needs it needs a refresher on that. Sure.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Our primary service, I guess you would say, is that
we buy houses directly from home sellers. So and the
primary way that we do that is buy cash. Typically,
we have a few different options that are available depending
on a person's unique circumstance, but the primary service boils
down to buying the house so that a person can
(01:58):
ease more easily sell the house and downside to a
smaller home, apartment or other type of senior living community
as easy and stress free as possible. And of course,
if we're not the right solution, we want to put
a person in contact with the right solution, whether that's
a traditional real estate agent or someone like that. So
(02:20):
that's that's.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
What we do, Okay, excellent, excellent, And so here's the question.
There are so many realtors out there, and you see
all of these advertisements and if you go online, I mean,
God help you. So you're yeah, I mean there must
be you know, millions of web search results, literally millions,
(02:41):
and then you have all of these, you know, the
these home buyers, some of them I think are are
a little bit on the on the shady side, frankly.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
And so you you stand above all of that obviously,
But how does someone who might be interested in their
house as is for cash? And there are a lot
of different reasons you might want to do that. We'll
talk about that. But how do you or maybe you
want to sell it retail? Okay, how does someone go
(03:11):
about finding a trusted real estate professional.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
That's a great question, Steve, because that's something that I'm
always trying to work on myself on how I can
be of a better service or provide a better service,
how I can be a better professional and give people
better options. But it's something that I see quite often
that it seems like I used to tell people and
(03:37):
have told people for years. It seems typically real estate
agents will always only offer their one option, which is
listing the property, put it on the MLS and seeing
what happens, and of course hopefully promoting that, but they
don't offer anything else. And the same thing happens typically
with home buying companies is that they'll bad mouth real
(03:59):
estate agents but only offer a seller one option, which
is typically just a low cache offer.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yep, they're trying to low.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Or they just have that one solution or yeah, yeah, yeah.
And what my inside joke was, I'm both a licensed
agent and a home buyer, so I'm not sure if
that's good or if that's twice as bad as what
the other people are. But some of the ways that
I think that a person can tell a good solution
(04:32):
or good professional from others is that if they're an
agent or a home buyer is that they offer multiple solutions.
So when I talk to a seller, I will never
just offer one thing and say take it or leave it.
I usually come from a educational or consultative background in
place and try and determine how I can help them best,
(04:55):
and then provide the multiple solutions to them that I
think may be applicable and let them choose which is
the best path to follow. And so the second point is,
like I mentioned, I try and educate, so I don't
just come in and dictate my thoughts. But I want
them to understand the market. I want them to understand
(05:16):
values in their areas and in their neighborhoods of what
they could expect if they put the house on the
market in a traditional manner, what it's going to take
to get the house to a nice selling point, if
it needs repairs and updates. And so I want to
be very transparent, and I think anyone that is in
(05:38):
a real estate profession should be very transparent with a
seller so that again they're educated and that they understand
they where they are and their options available to them
when it comes to home buyers. And if I get
too long winded here to stop me.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Oh okay, yeah, no, it's get information.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
When it comes to home buyers. The dirty word out there,
at least me is a wholesaler. Y. Yeah, there's a
lot of I shouldn't say a lot of, but there
are some companies and individuals that they have websites to
say that they buy houses. They will tell the seller
that they're going to buy their house, but in reality,
once they get a contract, they just try and flip
(06:16):
that contract. It's on paper, correct, So they don't have
any intent and typically no ability to buy the house
if they wanted to. And if they've over promised price
or over promised other items to the seller and don't
close or can't find a buyer for their contract, that
can put the seller that thinks the house is sold.
(06:39):
They're ready to move, they're doing all the things getting
ready to get to that new home, and it puts
them in a terrible position. And so I want to
make sure. I want the seller to make sure they're
dealing with a reputable company that's actually going to buy
the house, if that's what has been told to them.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
And you know, some of these sailors and some of
these unscrupulous folks who you know, they you know, we
have cash, et cetera, et cetera. Like you said, they
don't even have the cash on hand to buy your
house even if they wanted to. They're just trying to
flip it on paper. And if they don't get the
job done, then the homeowner what recourse do they have
or are they still stuck with that that particular person
(07:21):
or company, or can they move on or what are
the consequences for a homeowner?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
It depends, I guess, is what I would say. The
right thing to do would be for that wholesaler to
just step aside and let the home saler do what
they need to do.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
But I have heard in circumstances where the wholesaler will
cloud their title, they'll put a lien on their title.
Oh boy, so they're saying that, hey, I have an
agreement to buy it for the next ninety days or
whatever it is. You can't do anything else for ninety
days or I'm going to sue you. So that's an
extreme situation too.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
You're kind of stuck with the contract that you signed, correct,
So be very aware of what you're signing. I guess
is the correct is the message there, okay?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
And if you don't understand what you're signing, please talk
to someone that does, which leads me into the next thing.
In my situation, when I sign an agreement with a seller,
I always tell them because there's there's legal ease in
any even though it's a templated agreement from a title company,
it's always stuff in there that most people probably don't
(08:23):
want to read or whatever, and so I always tell them,
once we sign something, here's the name and number to
my closing and title agent. Please call them and say, hey,
I just signed an agreement with Ben. You should have
it in front of you. Can you tell me what
it says in layman's terms, and that way we eliminate
any issues that there's no Well, I thought I signed
(08:45):
something that said this, or I thought it said that
it's getting to and confirming the understanding immediately so that
there's no issues later on at the actual closing.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
So someone who has something to hide is not going
to recommend calling someone who knows how to read these
contracts and then encouraging their client to discover that.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
You wouldn't think that. So again that transparency, to not
over use that word. But I don't think it can
be too transparent. There's what's happening. And then the other
thing that's a big thing. I've heard and listen to
multiple real estate training companies talk about how to wholesale
houses virtually where they don't meet with the seller ever.
(09:34):
Oh wow, they never even talk look at the house.
So they teach the quote unquote investor how to deploy marketing,
how the scripting, how to take phone calls, how to
talk to that seller to get them to a number
that is going to work for both parties obviously, But
then send out an inspection company to inspect the house,
(09:55):
and then if anything changes, then the numbers change. And
my biggest issue is you can't understand how to help
the seller in the best way if you don't actually
meet with them and look at the house.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Well, and I'm old school enough if I'm going to
meet with you in person. Otherwise that's a no go
for me. So that's correct. All right. We're gonna have
more with Ben coming up. If you want to reach
out to Ben Socheck. Home Downsizing Solutions eight five, five
two nine one five zero zero five are online at
home Downsizing dot com. Now the Senior Care Live Question
(10:29):
of the Week. All real estate agents provide multiple options
for a homeowner to sell a house. Is that state
matrue or false? What do you think?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
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Speaker 4 (10:50):
We'll have more with Steve coming up next.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Welcome back. You're listening to Senior Care Live on the
Senior Care Broadcasting Network. For more information, visit Seniorcare Live
dot com. Now back to the Senior Care Live Question
of the week. All real estate agents provide multiple options
for a homeowner to sell a house. Is es statement
(11:25):
true or false? And the answer is false, The answer
is false? And Ben, why is that statement false?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Well, Steve, that's a great question. I think it should
be true. I think any real estate professional, whether they're
a home buying company like myself or my company, or
a real estate agent, should offer multiple solutions. And I
think that may be starting to happen a little bit,
but I still don't think it's very prevalent. And why
(12:00):
an agent doesn't want to share the full spectrum of
options to a person, I have no idea, but I
think it comes down to sometimes the agent's perception, especially
they've been in real estate a long time or for
a number of years, and they just want their views
towards home buying companies are tainted. They think all home
(12:23):
buying companies are thieves, quite frankly, I think, and so
I don't think they even think that that's a viable option.
They also don't think that any home seller really has
a best interest in selling their house for less than
(12:43):
what the agent perceives as full market value, and they
just don't realize that a person puts value in some
of the other benefits that someone like myself offers to
a person. And it's been more than a few times
in the twenty plus years that I've been at business
(13:04):
where I've sitting there, I've sat down with the seller
and I said, you know, we've went through the numbers,
went through the things it's going to take to get
the house up to its full potential. And I'll say,
this is I think what you would probably net if
you listed the house in a traditional manner and went
through the things you need to go through, or you
(13:24):
can net this much and I'll just I'll buy the house.
You'll be done, nothing else you need to do. And
a person in a more expensive house will say, or
has told me multiple times, you mean for that fifteen
or twenty thousand, which understand that's a big number. I'm
(13:45):
not saying it's not, but to them they were saying,
for fifteen or twenty thousand, I can just be done.
I don't have to do another thing to the house.
I can handle the keys, you're paying the cash, and
we're done. And I say that's correct, and they say
where do I sign YEP?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Well, because there's tremendous value in not having to deal
with all this all the things that's correct. Yeah, and
they see the value in that, and some other person
might see it differently, and that's okay. That's why there's
NHS correct one perfect fit solution. But if this is
resonating with you, if you're like, wait a minute, we
need to talk about that. Here's how you reach out
(14:24):
to Ben Socheck again with Home Downsizing Solutions eight five
five two nine one five zero zero five or online
at home Downsizing dot com and Ben, let's talk about
your new your home downsizing solutions, your turn key program.
What's that all about?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Thank you for asking Steve for the for Christmas time
here and for the month of January. I kind of
wanted to run some type of promotion. We offer a
number of services kind of on a a per needed basis,
but I kind of wanted to throw all these things together.
So if it struck a chord with a person like
you mentioned, then I want to be able to provide
(15:06):
a turn key program for someone that wants to sell
a house and move to a new home or apartment
in the easiest, most convenient way possible. So what we
can do is, if you are looking at selling and downsizing,
we can bring in the resources to organize and sort
your items, your things, we can find resources to then
(15:31):
sell the things you want to sell. If you have
enough for an estate sale or some type of sale
like that, we can find and have the resources available
to help you find a new home, whether that's a
traditional agent to find a home or apartment, or a
senior placement agent such as your service Steve to find
the right senior living arrangement. We can then move you
(15:55):
get the resources to come in and move you to
your new home. And when we your house, we can
take care of any of the stuff that you don't
care about. So again, just trying to provide a turnkey
package that makes it easy, convenient, and hassle free to
sell your house and get to your new home. Or
(16:17):
maybe you're looking and are interested in this for a
parent or a loved one. We can make this easy
so that your family doesn't have to have the stress
involved in making all these things happen.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Well, I'll tell you what you said a mouthful there,
because you mentioned you know several different related services to
selling your house and moving to that next step, whether
like you said, whether it's downsizing to a smaller house,
an apartment or a senior living community, whatever the case
may be. You can't just say, Okay, I'm ready to
(16:50):
move tomorrow. I mean, there's organizing, there's what do you
do with all the stuff? There's I mean, there are
so many different pieces and parts in physically moving it
from point A to point B and then unpacking it
in all those sort of things. And then what if
you have a situation where either yourself or your loved one,
maybe you might have just too much stuff in the
(17:11):
house for one reason or another, What are we going
to do with this? It's overwhelming. I remember speaking with
the lady and I was referring her to you. This
has been quite a long time ago, maybe three years ago,
And then it was very clear that she was just paralyzed.
The thought of all of the things that she had
to do was so overwhelming. She was paralyzed. And then
(17:33):
she just did nothing, which is the worst thing possible,
but she was just so overwhelmed. She did nothing correct.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
And that's what we want to try and take off
of a person's plate, or especially again if you're looking
for a parent or a loved one, and especially if
you're not in the geographic area where they need to
find something. Then we want to not just buy the
house and say Okay, we're done, but we want to
try and for vie the resources or help find the
(18:01):
resources to make that whole process easier. And of course
I I'll throw in the a little bit of legal ease.
Some restrictions apply, of course, Yeah, but it's the idea
that we can meet with you, talk to you, come
up with a game plan, and if we're the right
solution to provide a real estate solution for the house,
then we can do everything that we can to make
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everything in that process an easier thing for you and
your family.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And it's kind of like, I mean, it's not exactly
the same, but like a general contractor taking care of
all of the parts to make one hole, you're kind
of taking care of all these parts correct to help
that person not be overwhelmed and get it taken care of.
That's correct, all right. So again, if this is resonating
with you, you may find yourself suddenly with the house and
you're like, oh, what am I going to do with that?
(18:49):
Maybe you're ready to downsize, Maybe you've been thinking about it.
Maybe you listen to this program and you're like Steve says,
you need to be getting to move in here pretty
quick because the peak demand is in January, February, March.
And what am I to do with the house? I
need part of the proceeds of the house to fund
my senior care. Whatever your situation is, reach out to Ben.
He can help you. Ask him about that turnkey program.
He can put all this together for you. Let him
(19:12):
be the quarterback and take care of all these things
for you eight five five two nine one five zero
zero five or online at home doownsizing dot com. And Ben,
thanks so much for being here today.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Absolutely, thank you for having me Steve, and as always,
I hope the listeners have received some value from this
and wish everyone a merry Christmas and a great new
year in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Absolutely, and merry Christmas to you and your family.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
As well, you too, Steve, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
All Right, we'll be back with more coming right up.
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(21:49):
a lot of cool things coming up for twenty twenty six.
So all right, so the theme for at least this
part of the program is act Now. And I'm you know,
if you listen to the show every week, you're like, oh, Steve,
didn't you already talk about that? Yes, but we need
to talk about that again. So we have the peak demand.
(22:12):
It's in January, February and March, and so there what happens,
And a lot of people are just shocked. And I've
talked to very bright people, super knowledgeable people. These are
some smart human beings and they're like, what do you
mean we mean there's a peak demand? They've just never
(22:33):
really thought of it. So families come home for the holidays,
they gather, they have these realizations of, oh, my goodness,
Dad shouldn't be here alone, or mom needs some help.
This is quite a bit worse than what we thought
it was. Let's get through the holidays, and then after
the first of the year, let's bring in a home
care provider to help out around the house. Let's go
(22:55):
out and find an assisted living community to get mom
twenty four our care. Let's go out and we need
to find a memory care provider because this dementia has
really accelerated and now we have a major safety concern
and we're very, very concerned about this that we're going
(23:15):
to have to do something here or maybe we need
to move to long term care. So so, yeah, families
come home, and so I call it that newly realized
pent up delayed demand, because usually that type of situation,
it's newly discovered, newly realized, but it's not a crisis.
And they'll say, okay, look, let's just get through the holidays,
(23:39):
and then after the first let's go out and let's
look at some places and we'll choose one. Let's get
through the holidays first, okay, So they kick the can
a little bit and that's okay, it works out just fine.
They just realized they have the need. And then the
other thing that happens, So that's part of that spike,
that increased demand in January. The other thing that happens
(24:02):
is there's just a natural increase in illness, so you
have more flu, more pneumonia. COVID's never going away. That stuff.
And I'm not going to try not to swear, but
that stuff, you know, it keeps. It flares up here
or there. It's still a problem. I don't think it's
ever leaving, falling on the ice and breaking a hip,
(24:25):
and you know, you have all heck breaks loose, right,
So you have all of that kind of stuff going on,
and then you have again that newly realized pent up
delayed demand, and all of that hits in January and
it sustains itself. So that peak demand will it usually
hits around the seventh or eighth to maybe the tenth
of January. Everyone kind of wakes up, kind of get
(24:46):
back to work, kind of get back in the flow,
and they're like, all right, let's go. And I am
very tuned into that and I swear I could feel
the ground starting to shake with literally hundreds of families,
thousands of people flooding into the marketplace and gobbling up
all of the available spaces, beds, apartments, et cetera. And boom,
(25:10):
I mean it is, it's Katie bar the door it
is on right. So you've got that, You've got that
situation and it lasts, it sustains itself through February and
well into March, and the last two three years, I've
noticed it goes all the way through March and so
we've got a solid three month peak there. So I've
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been preaching this over and over and over again. If
you think you're going to need a place, we need
to get out, like right now, right now. And guess what.
I'm working with a number of families who took that
to heart, and they're like, you know what we do
we need to get out. We don't want to you know,
if we have a little bit of a weight list,
(25:53):
we can manage that. I'd rather be third on the
waitlist than twenty fifth on the waitlist if we put
this on for a month or two, because we can't
afford that. But we can deal with a short wait
list and we might get lucky and find a place
that has space available right now, get your name on that,
and then get you moved right after the first of
the year, or even before beforehand if needed. But that's
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kind of a home run. So again, you know, do
not delay, act now is the message there. So right
now with Senior Care Consulting, we're working with people who
are how do I describe this, So they're in assisted living.
And as I've always said, if you've listened to the
(26:38):
program for any length of time at all, every single
assisted living community has a threshold. Now, some of them
would want to argue with me about that, but I
can throw out a few thresholds and they'll say, oh, no,
we can't do that. Okay, Well you do have a threshold, okay.
And some places offer a lot more care than other places,
right And I've always acknowledged that, and it's great, okay,
(27:00):
But we're working with some folks right now and they're
just really outpacing what the assisted living level of care
can provide for them. And you know, we're our loved
one is declining to a two person transfer assist and
sometimes we're needing a urinary catheter or a feeding tube,
(27:20):
or we just we just have some some medical needs
that are just a little too far for we have
ostomy care, et cetera, et cetera, and a lot of
times that's just going to be that's going to exceed
the threshold of the assisted living level of care. So
we're working with folks right now who are again outpacing
that assisted living level of care. They're they're bumping right
(27:41):
up to the maximum that can be provided, and they
can see this. And what happens is when you hit
that threshold, or for sure when you exceed that threshold,
you will get a discharge letter, and the discharge letter
will say something to the effect of we've enjoyed having
you here and everything's wonderful. However, we can no longer
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meet the needs of your loved one, and so you've
got thirty days to find a new place. And that's
going to be that thirty day discharge. Notice that you
maybe you didn't expect, okay, and maybe didn't see that coming,
but that's coming. If I just described your situation, you're
out pacing what they can provide and you're bumping right
(28:23):
up against their maximum level of care or support that
they're offering, so again working with people who are in
that exact situation they called it, and they're like, Steve,
you know, we're getting to the end of the road
here and we're gonna need long term care. We're gonna
need that here pretty quickly. So we want to get out.
We want you to help us do the research, check
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out our top options, and then we want to get
our name on a wait list, and then move when
there's a space available. If there's a space available, now,
we'll go ahead and move now. If we have to
wait for a little while, we're not quite there yet,
but we can afford to wait for just a little while.
If that is your situation, I'm whether you work with
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Senior Care Consulting or do this on your own. Again,
act now, do not put this stuff off, even during
the busy holiday season. I get it. This is not
a fun thing to deal with, and it's even less
fun during the holidays, and you may not have time
to deal with it. That's why so many people are
calling Senior Care Consulting because we do the vast majority
of work for you and we just need a few
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hours of your time. But regardless, if you need help
nine one three nine four five twenty eight hundred. We're
online at Seniorcare Consulting dot com and we can help
you out with that. Another situation. I've been contacted here
recently by some folks and multiple people actually, and their
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loved one is in assisted living and they're starting to
be very concerned about running out of money, whether you
know it or not. Again, I've talked about this on
the program many times, but the vast majority, I mean
almost all of them, not all of them, but almost
all of them are private pay only, Meaning if you're
living an assistant living community and you're like, oh, they
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could just build that medicare that Medicaid thing or whatever.
When we run out of money, you are going to
get an unexpected discharge notice and you're not going to
be happy, okay, because the vast majority of them are
private pay only, meaning if you run out of money,
you were going to have to move somewhere else that
is Medicaid certified. Again, we're working with people and like
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one gentleman said, you know, my mom is in assisted
living and I can see she still has money. We're
not in a crisis yet, but I can see her
outliving her assets. I listen to your radio program, and
I understand that it's ideal, really ideal to move, you know,
before you're on your last dollar, right move proactively, move
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a little bit ahead of schedule here and get her
settled into a community where if she should outlift her assets,
she can seamlessly transfer or transition to Medicaid and never
have to move and there's no bump in the road.
It's it's very very very very simple, very very smooth.
And so if that's a concern of yours nine one three,
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out online at Seniorcare Consulting dot com. And I have
some more examples of different situations of our clients that
we're working with and uh, and I think some of
these are going to resonate with a lot of youth,
so uh, stay tuned, and then I'm going to talk
to you about what what the keepers are doing for Christmas.
So stay tuned.
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so we're talking about ACT now, so get out. I
know it's in the mid I know it's well. We're
kind of getting through towards the end of the holiday season,
but it's you got to do something now. You will
thank me later, you know, see if you're kind of
a pain in the neck. But okay, fine, fine, But
uh so we're talking about just some people who have
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contacted Senior Care consulting over these holidays and kind of
their situation and how we're able to help them out.
We talked about people who are in assistant living. They're
reaching the threshold of that particular community. They're going to
have to move somewhere else to receive more care or
higher level of care. People who are also in an
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assisted living community and they can see that there's a
good chance that they will outlive their assets, and where
they're at is private pay only, and that is the
vast majority of assistant living communities or private pay only meeting.
If you run out of money, you're going to have
to move somewhere else. And so they're getting to jump
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on that they can move somewhere else agent place, transition
seamlessly and easily to medicaid and just never miss a beat.
So working with some folks like that, we also have
some people who are at home and they're not going
to be able to stay home for too much longer.
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We have our family and friend caregiving team that we've
put together, and we're taxing the heck out of that team.
Maybe we have brought in some outside support from a
home care provider to help supplement that and give our
family and friends a team a little bit of a
rest at a break. But pretty soon you can just
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see that this is not going to be enough, and
that we're going to need to move to an assisted
living community or long term care community fairly soon. And again,
if we do the search now, we might be you know,
fifth on the list, on the waiting list, and reasonably
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expected to come you know, rise up to you know,
first on that list sometime in January, possibly maybe February.
If you put it off very much longer, and I'm
not kidding, just maybe two or three weeks, four weeks,
you could be twenty fifth on that list. I'm just
not exaggerating that whatsoever. And so those are just some examples,
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you know, one mistake that that some folks will make,
and actually I see a lot of people making this, Yeah, Steve,
I mean, you know, we'd like to get out and
look around, but you know, we're not quite ready for that.
And the person you know needing the care. Oh, they
don't want to move, and so we're just going to
wait until a crisis occurs, until we have to move,
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and then we'll give you a call. Okay, you can
do that. I can't tell you how many calls I've
received like that, Steve, we knew we should have called
you six months ago. We knew we should have done
this in advance, like you're constantly talking about, we put
it off. Now we have a crisis. How fast can
you turn this around? We're kicking ourselves, sorry about that,
(36:36):
but we need to move pretty quickly. How fast can
you get this done? And so with Senior Care Consulting,
we do backflips. We're not even gymnasts, but we do
been over backwards and we try to help you the
best we can as quickly as we can. But here's
the problem with that, and this is a problem. If
you put off your search until you absolutely have to move,
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We're gonna wait until something happens and she has to
move and there is no choice. We're going to wait
for a crisis to occur that forces us to do
into action to do something. Then here's the problem with that.
All of the best places available out in the market.
They're the ones with the highest demand because everyone wants
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to go there, because they're the best places in the market.
If you have to pick a place and move in
by next week, or move in within a matter of days,
move in quickly as soon as possible, we can help
you and we will do a really good job for you.
But our options are going to be the places that
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have a space available, and it may not be your
preferred provider. That is the risk that you run. So
I would encourage you to reach out to Senior Care Consulting.
We here's here's a here's a compromise for you. Okay,
and we're doing this with some clients. Let's say, Steve,
this is kind of a pain of the rare. We
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don't have time for this, but we want to go
We do want to go out, and we want a tour,
and we want to get our name on a wait list,
you know, right after the first Can we meet with
you right now and we'll just get the process started,
and then can you set up the tours for after
the first of the year. Yes, the answer is yes,
So we can do the work for you right now
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and then set up the tours for the first week
of January, maybe February something like that. If that is
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and uh, just want to spend a couple of minutes
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to let you know about Obviously, Christmas is coming up, man.
I love going to our church. We have a Chrism
service and at the end, the music is so awesome,
the word is so powerful. It's just beautiful. I love
everything about it. And then every single year we end
the service with the lights down and we light one
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candle in the front, and then two candles, and then
two candles light four and we right and everyone lights
each other's candles and then this glow starts at the
front of the church and it goes all the way
back while the band is playing Silent Night, and then
everyone's singing that together in the glow of these candles.
There's something magical about that. I love it. Christmas Eve,
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we go to my in law's house over in Topeka
and we have a great time there, and then we
see my mom and spend some time with her on
Christmas Day and it's just wonderful and this is my
favorite time of year. And Darren, do you have any traditions?
What do you have planned for Christmas this year? Well?
Speaker 1 (39:53):
This year is special because I became a grandfather for
the first time.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
How last week? Right?
Speaker 1 (39:58):
So yeah, so that's going to be exciting. That's first time,
your first time, grandpa, first time. Yeah, congratulations. And our
tradition is we will watch a Christmas Story with Ralphie. Oh,
I have to watch the Red Ryder bb gun every
single year. That's our that's our tradition.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
You got to do it.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Yeah, and uh, I try to avoid the uh family
wearing pajama thing.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Not a fan of that.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
I did it once and I'm.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Hoping you're like one and done on that one.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Yeah, but I know now with the new granddaughter, you
know it's coming when she comes back to Grandpa. Are
you going to do the family pajama thing? Yes?
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Yes, well yes, honey, inside, I'll be going no no, yeah, no, yeah,
grand grandkid asked you to do something, You're you're doing it. Yeah,
I'm whipped. Well, congratulations, tell you and I hope you
and your family have a wonderful, wonderful Christmas.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Back at you, and I hope you nobody gets burned
by any candles or any hot wax gets stripped on you.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Oh no, no, no, I'm sure it's happened. But you know,
on my my mom's side, the Quevis side, we make
uh Tamali's homemade and we've I've worked with my mom
for years trying to perfect this recipe. We've got it down.
I wouldn't say there as good as Aunt Kouka made,
God rest or Soul, but the man, they're right in
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there and they're good. And we make probably twelve to
fifteen dozen hot tomalis. They their killer, sounds delicious, their killer.
So I can't wait to do that with my mom's.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Leave those out for Santa instead of cookies.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
There we go. Santa will love me for a little
sausa and Tomali's. Yeah, ah, there we go. Absolutely Anyway,
It's my favorite time of the year, and I hope
you and yours have a wonderful, wonderful Christmas. I'm Steve
Keeker and I wish you grace in peace. May God
bless you and your family on this day and always
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for seniors and their caregivers. And now America's Senior care consultant,
Steve Keecker, Hello and welcome to Senior Care Live.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I'm Steve Keeker. You're Senior Care Consultant and I really
appreciate you tuning in today. We have a wonderful program
on tap with my friend and special guest in studio.
He is mister Ben Socheck. He's the owner and operator
of a wonderful company called Home Downsizing Solutions, and Ben,
welcome back to Senior Care Life.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Hi Steve, thank you and is always great to be back.
And hopefully I can share some great information with the
listeners today.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Okay, and happy Holidays to you and your family.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Merry Christmas to you and all that are listening.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Absolutely so, and I can't believe we're I'm I mean,
we're there, so I don't know where the time goes,
and the older I get, the faster goes. Anyway, if
you'd like to reach out to Ben and and Home
Downsizing Solutions write this phone number down eight five five
two nine one five zero zero five, or you could
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go online. It's a phenomenal website, Home downsizing dot com
and ben. So, why don't we just give a quick
recap of the services, the primary services offered by Home
Downsizing Solutions in case we have anyone in the audience
that needs it needs a refresher on that. Sure.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Our primary service, I guess you would say, is that
we buy houses directly from home sellers. So and the
primary way that we do that is buy cash. Typically,
we have a few different options that are available depending
on a person's unique circumstance, but the primary service boils
down to buying the house so that a person can
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ease more easily sell the house and downside to a
smaller home, apartment or other type of senior living community
as easy and stress free as possible. And of course,
if we're not the right solution, we want to put
a person in contact with the right solution, whether that's
a traditional real estate agent or someone like that. So
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that's that's.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
What we do, Okay, excellent, excellent, And so here's the question.
There are so many realtors out there, and you see
all of these advertisements and if you go online, I mean,
God help you. So you're yeah, I mean there must
be you know, millions of web search results, literally millions,
(02:41):
and then you have all of these, you know, the
these home buyers, some of them I think are are
a little bit on the on the shady side, frankly.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
And so you you stand above all of that obviously,
But how does someone who might be interested in their
house as is for cash? And there are a lot
of different reasons you might want to do that. We'll
talk about that. But how do you or maybe you
want to sell it retail? Okay, how does someone go
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about finding a trusted real estate professional.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
That's a great question, Steve, because that's something that I'm
always trying to work on myself on how I can
be of a better service or provide a better service,
how I can be a better professional and give people
better options. But it's something that I see quite often
that it seems like I used to tell people and
(03:37):
have told people for years. It seems typically real estate
agents will always only offer their one option, which is
listing the property, put it on the MLS and seeing
what happens, and of course hopefully promoting that, but they
don't offer anything else. And the same thing happens typically
with home buying companies is that they'll bad mouth real
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estate agents but only offer a seller one option, which
is typically just a low cache offer.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yep, they're trying to low.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Or they just have that one solution or yeah, yeah, yeah.
And what my inside joke was, I'm both a licensed
agent and a home buyer, so I'm not sure if
that's good or if that's twice as bad as what
the other people are. But some of the ways that
I think that a person can tell a good solution
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or good professional from others is that if they're an
agent or a home buyer is that they offer multiple solutions.
So when I talk to a seller, I will never
just offer one thing and say take it or leave it.
I usually come from a educational or consultative background in
place and try and determine how I can help them best,
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and then provide the multiple solutions to them that I
think may be applicable and let them choose which is
the best path to follow. And so the second point is,
like I mentioned, I try and educate, so I don't
just come in and dictate my thoughts. But I want
them to understand the market. I want them to understand
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values in their areas and in their neighborhoods of what
they could expect if they put the house on the
market in a traditional manner, what it's going to take
to get the house to a nice selling point, if
it needs repairs and updates. And so I want to
be very transparent, and I think anyone that is in
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a real estate profession should be very transparent with a
seller so that again they're educated and that they understand
they where they are and their options available to them
when it comes to home buyers. And if I get
too long winded here to stop me.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Oh okay, yeah, no, it's get information.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
When it comes to home buyers. The dirty word out there,
at least me is a wholesaler. Y. Yeah, there's a
lot of I shouldn't say a lot of, but there
are some companies and individuals that they have websites to
say that they buy houses. They will tell the seller
that they're going to buy their house, but in reality,
once they get a contract, they just try and flip
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that contract. It's on paper, correct, So they don't have
any intent and typically no ability to buy the house
if they wanted to. And if they've over promised price
or over promised other items to the seller and don't
close or can't find a buyer for their contract, that
can put the seller that thinks the house is sold.
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They're ready to move, they're doing all the things getting
ready to get to that new home, and it puts
them in a terrible position. And so I want to
make sure. I want the seller to make sure they're
dealing with a reputable company that's actually going to buy
the house, if that's what has been told to them.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
And you know, some of these sailors and some of
these unscrupulous folks who you know, they you know, we
have cash, et cetera, et cetera. Like you said, they
don't even have the cash on hand to buy your
house even if they wanted to. They're just trying to
flip it on paper. And if they don't get the
job done, then the homeowner what recourse do they have
or are they still stuck with that that particular person
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or company, or can they move on or what are
the consequences for a homeowner?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
It depends, I guess, is what I would say. The
right thing to do would be for that wholesaler to
just step aside and let the home saler do what
they need to do.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
But I have heard in circumstances where the wholesaler will
cloud their title, they'll put a lien on their title.
Oh boy, so they're saying that, hey, I have an
agreement to buy it for the next ninety days or
whatever it is. You can't do anything else for ninety
days or I'm going to sue you. So that's an
extreme situation too.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
You're kind of stuck with the contract that you signed, correct,
So be very aware of what you're signing. I guess
is the correct is the message there, okay?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
And if you don't understand what you're signing, please talk
to someone that does, which leads me into the next thing.
In my situation, when I sign an agreement with a seller,
I always tell them because there's there's legal ease in
any even though it's a templated agreement from a title company,
it's always stuff in there that most people probably don't
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want to read or whatever, and so I always tell them,
once we sign something, here's the name and number to
my closing and title agent. Please call them and say, hey,
I just signed an agreement with Ben. You should have
it in front of you. Can you tell me what
it says in layman's terms, and that way we eliminate
any issues that there's no Well, I thought I signed
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something that said this, or I thought it said that
it's getting to and confirming the understanding immediately so that
there's no issues later on at the actual closing.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
So someone who has something to hide is not going
to recommend calling someone who knows how to read these
contracts and then encouraging their client to discover that.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
You wouldn't think that. So again that transparency, to not
over use that word. But I don't think it can
be too transparent. There's what's happening. And then the other
thing that's a big thing. I've heard and listen to
multiple real estate training companies talk about how to wholesale
houses virtually where they don't meet with the seller ever.
(09:34):
Oh wow, they never even talk look at the house.
So they teach the quote unquote investor how to deploy marketing,
how the scripting, how to take phone calls, how to
talk to that seller to get them to a number
that is going to work for both parties obviously, But
then send out an inspection company to inspect the house,
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and then if anything changes, then the numbers change. And
my biggest issue is you can't understand how to help
the seller in the best way if you don't actually
meet with them and look at the house.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Well, and I'm old school enough if I'm going to
meet with you in person. Otherwise that's a no go
for me. So that's correct. All right. We're gonna have
more with Ben coming up. If you want to reach
out to Ben Socheck. Home Downsizing Solutions eight five, five
two nine one five zero zero five are online at
home Downsizing dot com. Now the Senior Care Live Question
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of the Week. All real estate agents provide multiple options
for a homeowner to sell a house. Is that state
matrue or false? What do you think?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
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Speaker 4 (10:50):
We'll have more with Steve coming up next.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Welcome back. You're listening to Senior Care Live on the
Senior Care Broadcasting Network. For more information, visit Seniorcare Live
dot com. Now back to the Senior Care Live Question
of the week. All real estate agents provide multiple options
for a homeowner to sell a house. Is es statement
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true or false? And the answer is false, The answer
is false? And Ben, why is that statement false?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Well, Steve, that's a great question. I think it should
be true. I think any real estate professional, whether they're
a home buying company like myself or my company, or
a real estate agent, should offer multiple solutions. And I
think that may be starting to happen a little bit,
but I still don't think it's very prevalent. And why
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an agent doesn't want to share the full spectrum of
options to a person, I have no idea, but I
think it comes down to sometimes the agent's perception, especially
they've been in real estate a long time or for
a number of years, and they just want their views
towards home buying companies are tainted. They think all home
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buying companies are thieves, quite frankly, I think, and so
I don't think they even think that that's a viable option.
They also don't think that any home seller really has
a best interest in selling their house for less than
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what the agent perceives as full market value, and they
just don't realize that a person puts value in some
of the other benefits that someone like myself offers to
a person. And it's been more than a few times
in the twenty plus years that I've been at business
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where I've sitting there, I've sat down with the seller
and I said, you know, we've went through the numbers,
went through the things it's going to take to get
the house up to its full potential. And I'll say,
this is I think what you would probably net if
you listed the house in a traditional manner and went
through the things you need to go through, or you
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can net this much and I'll just I'll buy the house.
You'll be done, nothing else you need to do. And
a person in a more expensive house will say, or
has told me multiple times, you mean for that fifteen
or twenty thousand, which understand that's a big number. I'm
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not saying it's not, but to them they were saying,
for fifteen or twenty thousand, I can just be done.
I don't have to do another thing to the house.
I can handle the keys, you're paying the cash, and
we're done. And I say that's correct, and they say
where do I sign YEP?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Well, because there's tremendous value in not having to deal
with all this all the things that's correct. Yeah, and
they see the value in that, and some other person
might see it differently, and that's okay. That's why there's
NHS correct one perfect fit solution. But if this is
resonating with you, if you're like, wait a minute, we
need to talk about that. Here's how you reach out
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to Ben Socheck again with Home Downsizing Solutions eight five
five two nine one five zero zero five or online
at home Downsizing dot com and Ben, let's talk about
your new your home downsizing solutions, your turn key program.
What's that all about?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Thank you for asking Steve for the for Christmas time
here and for the month of January. I kind of
wanted to run some type of promotion. We offer a
number of services kind of on a a per needed basis,
but I kind of wanted to throw all these things together.
So if it struck a chord with a person like
you mentioned, then I want to be able to provide
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a turn key program for someone that wants to sell
a house and move to a new home or apartment
in the easiest, most convenient way possible. So what we
can do is, if you are looking at selling and downsizing,
we can bring in the resources to organize and sort
your items, your things, we can find resources to then
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sell the things you want to sell. If you have
enough for an estate sale or some type of sale
like that, we can find and have the resources available
to help you find a new home, whether that's a
traditional agent to find a home or apartment, or a
senior placement agent such as your service Steve to find
the right senior living arrangement. We can then move you
(15:55):
get the resources to come in and move you to
your new home. And when we your house, we can
take care of any of the stuff that you don't
care about. So again, just trying to provide a turnkey
package that makes it easy, convenient, and hassle free to
sell your house and get to your new home. Or
(16:17):
maybe you're looking and are interested in this for a
parent or a loved one. We can make this easy
so that your family doesn't have to have the stress
involved in making all these things happen.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Well, I'll tell you what you said a mouthful there,
because you mentioned you know several different related services to
selling your house and moving to that next step, whether
like you said, whether it's downsizing to a smaller house,
an apartment or a senior living community, whatever the case
may be. You can't just say, Okay, I'm ready to
(16:50):
move tomorrow. I mean, there's organizing, there's what do you
do with all the stuff? There's I mean, there are
so many different pieces and parts in physically moving it
from point A to point B and then unpacking it
in all those sort of things. And then what if
you have a situation where either yourself or your loved one,
maybe you might have just too much stuff in the
(17:11):
house for one reason or another, What are we going
to do with this? It's overwhelming. I remember speaking with
the lady and I was referring her to you. This
has been quite a long time ago, maybe three years ago,
And then it was very clear that she was just paralyzed.
The thought of all of the things that she had
to do was so overwhelming. She was paralyzed. And then
(17:33):
she just did nothing, which is the worst thing possible,
but she was just so overwhelmed. She did nothing correct.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
And that's what we want to try and take off
of a person's plate, or especially again if you're looking
for a parent or a loved one, and especially if
you're not in the geographic area where they need to
find something. Then we want to not just buy the
house and say Okay, we're done, but we want to
try and for vie the resources or help find the
(18:01):
resources to make that whole process easier. And of course
I I'll throw in the a little bit of legal ease.
Some restrictions apply, of course, Yeah, but it's the idea
that we can meet with you, talk to you, come
up with a game plan, and if we're the right
solution to provide a real estate solution for the house,
then we can do everything that we can to make
(18:23):
everything in that process an easier thing for you and
your family.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And it's kind of like, I mean, it's not exactly
the same, but like a general contractor taking care of
all of the parts to make one hole, you're kind
of taking care of all these parts correct to help
that person not be overwhelmed and get it taken care of.
That's correct, all right. So again, if this is resonating
with you, you may find yourself suddenly with the house and
you're like, oh, what am I going to do with that?
(18:49):
Maybe you're ready to downsize, Maybe you've been thinking about it.
Maybe you listen to this program and you're like Steve says,
you need to be getting to move in here pretty
quick because the peak demand is in January, February, March.
And what am I to do with the house? I
need part of the proceeds of the house to fund
my senior care. Whatever your situation is, reach out to Ben.
He can help you. Ask him about that turnkey program.
He can put all this together for you. Let him
(19:12):
be the quarterback and take care of all these things
for you eight five five two nine one five zero
zero five or online at home doownsizing dot com. And Ben,
thanks so much for being here today.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Absolutely, thank you for having me Steve, and as always,
I hope the listeners have received some value from this
and wish everyone a merry Christmas and a great new
year in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Absolutely, and merry Christmas to you and your family.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
As well, you too, Steve, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
All Right, we'll be back with more coming right up.
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Speaker 2 (21:05):
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Sherewood appreciate it. And we have a lot of a
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a lot of cool things coming up for twenty twenty six.
So all right, so the theme for at least this
part of the program is act Now. And I'm you know,
if you listen to the show every week, you're like, oh, Steve,
didn't you already talk about that? Yes, but we need
to talk about that again. So we have the peak demand.
(22:12):
It's in January, February and March, and so there what happens,
And a lot of people are just shocked. And I've
talked to very bright people, super knowledgeable people. These are
some smart human beings and they're like, what do you
mean we mean there's a peak demand? They've just never
(22:33):
really thought of it. So families come home for the holidays,
they gather, they have these realizations of, oh, my goodness,
Dad shouldn't be here alone, or mom needs some help.
This is quite a bit worse than what we thought
it was. Let's get through the holidays, and then after
the first of the year, let's bring in a home
care provider to help out around the house. Let's go
(22:55):
out and find an assisted living community to get mom
twenty four our care. Let's go out and we need
to find a memory care provider because this dementia has
really accelerated and now we have a major safety concern
and we're very, very concerned about this that we're going
(23:15):
to have to do something here or maybe we need
to move to long term care. So so, yeah, families
come home, and so I call it that newly realized
pent up delayed demand, because usually that type of situation,
it's newly discovered, newly realized, but it's not a crisis.
And they'll say, okay, look, let's just get through the holidays,
(23:39):
and then after the first let's go out and let's
look at some places and we'll choose one. Let's get
through the holidays first, okay, So they kick the can
a little bit and that's okay, it works out just fine.
They just realized they have the need. And then the
other thing that happens, So that's part of that spike,
that increased demand in January. The other thing that happens
(24:02):
is there's just a natural increase in illness, so you
have more flu, more pneumonia. COVID's never going away. That stuff.
And I'm not going to try not to swear, but
that stuff, you know, it keeps. It flares up here
or there. It's still a problem. I don't think it's
ever leaving, falling on the ice and breaking a hip,
(24:25):
and you know, you have all heck breaks loose, right,
So you have all of that kind of stuff going on,
and then you have again that newly realized pent up
delayed demand, and all of that hits in January and
it sustains itself. So that peak demand will it usually
hits around the seventh or eighth to maybe the tenth
of January. Everyone kind of wakes up, kind of get
(24:46):
back to work, kind of get back in the flow,
and they're like, all right, let's go. And I am
very tuned into that and I swear I could feel
the ground starting to shake with literally hundreds of families,
thousands of people flooding into the marketplace and gobbling up
all of the available spaces, beds, apartments, et cetera. And boom,
(25:10):
I mean it is, it's Katie bar the door it
is on right. So you've got that, You've got that
situation and it lasts, it sustains itself through February and
well into March, and the last two three years, I've
noticed it goes all the way through March and so
we've got a solid three month peak there. So I've
(25:32):
been preaching this over and over and over again. If
you think you're going to need a place, we need
to get out, like right now, right now. And guess what.
I'm working with a number of families who took that
to heart, and they're like, you know what we do
we need to get out. We don't want to you know,
if we have a little bit of a weight list,
(25:53):
we can manage that. I'd rather be third on the
waitlist than twenty fifth on the waitlist if we put
this on for a month or two, because we can't
afford that. But we can deal with a short wait
list and we might get lucky and find a place
that has space available right now, get your name on that,
and then get you moved right after the first of
the year, or even before beforehand if needed. But that's
(26:18):
kind of a home run. So again, you know, do
not delay, act now is the message there. So right
now with Senior Care Consulting, we're working with people who
are how do I describe this, So they're in assisted living.
And as I've always said, if you've listened to the
(26:38):
program for any length of time at all, every single
assisted living community has a threshold. Now, some of them
would want to argue with me about that, but I
can throw out a few thresholds and they'll say, oh, no,
we can't do that. Okay, Well you do have a threshold, okay.
And some places offer a lot more care than other places,
right And I've always acknowledged that, and it's great, okay,
(27:00):
But we're working with some folks right now and they're
just really outpacing what the assisted living level of care
can provide for them. And you know, we're our loved
one is declining to a two person transfer assist and
sometimes we're needing a urinary catheter or a feeding tube,
(27:20):
or we just we just have some some medical needs
that are just a little too far for we have
ostomy care, et cetera, et cetera, and a lot of
times that's just going to be that's going to exceed
the threshold of the assisted living level of care. So
we're working with folks right now who are again outpacing
that assisted living level of care. They're they're bumping right
(27:41):
up to the maximum that can be provided, and they
can see this. And what happens is when you hit
that threshold, or for sure when you exceed that threshold,
you will get a discharge letter, and the discharge letter
will say something to the effect of we've enjoyed having
you here and everything's wonderful. However, we can no longer
(28:01):
meet the needs of your loved one, and so you've
got thirty days to find a new place. And that's
going to be that thirty day discharge. Notice that you
maybe you didn't expect, okay, and maybe didn't see that coming,
but that's coming. If I just described your situation, you're
out pacing what they can provide and you're bumping right
(28:23):
up against their maximum level of care or support that
they're offering, so again working with people who are in
that exact situation they called it, and they're like, Steve,
you know, we're getting to the end of the road
here and we're gonna need long term care. We're gonna
need that here pretty quickly. So we want to get out.
We want you to help us do the research, check
(28:44):
out our top options, and then we want to get
our name on a wait list, and then move when
there's a space available. If there's a space available, now,
we'll go ahead and move now. If we have to
wait for a little while, we're not quite there yet,
but we can afford to wait for just a little while.
If that is your situation, I'm whether you work with
(29:07):
Senior Care Consulting or do this on your own. Again,
act now, do not put this stuff off, even during
the busy holiday season. I get it. This is not
a fun thing to deal with, and it's even less
fun during the holidays, and you may not have time
to deal with it. That's why so many people are
calling Senior Care Consulting because we do the vast majority
of work for you and we just need a few
(29:29):
hours of your time. But regardless, if you need help
nine one three nine four five twenty eight hundred. We're
online at Seniorcare Consulting dot com and we can help
you out with that. Another situation. I've been contacted here
recently by some folks and multiple people actually, and their
(29:53):
loved one is in assisted living and they're starting to
be very concerned about running out of money, whether you
know it or not. Again, I've talked about this on
the program many times, but the vast majority, I mean
almost all of them, not all of them, but almost
all of them are private pay only, Meaning if you're
living an assistant living community and you're like, oh, they
(30:16):
could just build that medicare that Medicaid thing or whatever.
When we run out of money, you are going to
get an unexpected discharge notice and you're not going to
be happy, okay, because the vast majority of them are
private pay only, meaning if you run out of money,
you were going to have to move somewhere else that
is Medicaid certified. Again, we're working with people and like
(30:38):
one gentleman said, you know, my mom is in assisted
living and I can see she still has money. We're
not in a crisis yet, but I can see her
outliving her assets. I listen to your radio program, and
I understand that it's ideal, really ideal to move, you know,
before you're on your last dollar, right move proactively, move
(31:00):
a little bit ahead of schedule here and get her
settled into a community where if she should outlift her assets,
she can seamlessly transfer or transition to Medicaid and never
have to move and there's no bump in the road.
It's it's very very very very simple, very very smooth.
And so if that's a concern of yours nine one three,
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out online at Seniorcare Consulting dot com. And I have
some more examples of different situations of our clients that
we're working with and uh, and I think some of
these are going to resonate with a lot of youth,
so uh, stay tuned, and then I'm going to talk
to you about what what the keepers are doing for Christmas.
So stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
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or visit Seniorcareconsulting dot com. Welcome back. If you're listening
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have a question, visit Senior Care Live dot com. All right,
(33:19):
so we're talking about ACT now, so get out. I
know it's in the mid I know it's well. We're
kind of getting through towards the end of the holiday season,
but it's you got to do something now. You will
thank me later, you know, see if you're kind of
a pain in the neck. But okay, fine, fine, But
uh so we're talking about just some people who have
(33:41):
contacted Senior Care consulting over these holidays and kind of
their situation and how we're able to help them out.
We talked about people who are in assistant living. They're
reaching the threshold of that particular community. They're going to
have to move somewhere else to receive more care or
higher level of care. People who are also in an
(34:02):
assisted living community and they can see that there's a
good chance that they will outlive their assets, and where
they're at is private pay only, and that is the
vast majority of assistant living communities or private pay only meeting.
If you run out of money, you're going to have
to move somewhere else. And so they're getting to jump
(34:23):
on that they can move somewhere else agent place, transition
seamlessly and easily to medicaid and just never miss a beat.
So working with some folks like that, we also have
some people who are at home and they're not going
to be able to stay home for too much longer.
(34:46):
We have our family and friend caregiving team that we've
put together, and we're taxing the heck out of that team.
Maybe we have brought in some outside support from a
home care provider to help supplement that and give our
family and friends a team a little bit of a
rest at a break. But pretty soon you can just
(35:09):
see that this is not going to be enough, and
that we're going to need to move to an assisted
living community or long term care community fairly soon. And again,
if we do the search now, we might be you know,
fifth on the list, on the waiting list, and reasonably
(35:30):
expected to come you know, rise up to you know,
first on that list sometime in January, possibly maybe February.
If you put it off very much longer, and I'm
not kidding, just maybe two or three weeks, four weeks,
you could be twenty fifth on that list. I'm just
not exaggerating that whatsoever. And so those are just some examples,
(35:53):
you know, one mistake that that some folks will make,
and actually I see a lot of people making this, Yeah, Steve,
I mean, you know, we'd like to get out and
look around, but you know, we're not quite ready for that.
And the person you know needing the care. Oh, they
don't want to move, and so we're just going to
wait until a crisis occurs, until we have to move,
(36:14):
and then we'll give you a call. Okay, you can
do that. I can't tell you how many calls I've
received like that, Steve, we knew we should have called
you six months ago. We knew we should have done
this in advance, like you're constantly talking about, we put
it off. Now we have a crisis. How fast can
you turn this around? We're kicking ourselves, sorry about that,
(36:36):
but we need to move pretty quickly. How fast can
you get this done? And so with Senior Care Consulting,
we do backflips. We're not even gymnasts, but we do
been over backwards and we try to help you the
best we can as quickly as we can. But here's
the problem with that, and this is a problem. If
you put off your search until you absolutely have to move,
(37:02):
We're gonna wait until something happens and she has to
move and there is no choice. We're going to wait
for a crisis to occur that forces us to do
into action to do something. Then here's the problem with that.
All of the best places available out in the market.
They're the ones with the highest demand because everyone wants
(37:24):
to go there, because they're the best places in the market.
If you have to pick a place and move in
by next week, or move in within a matter of days,
move in quickly as soon as possible, we can help
you and we will do a really good job for you.
But our options are going to be the places that
(37:47):
have a space available, and it may not be your
preferred provider. That is the risk that you run. So
I would encourage you to reach out to Senior Care Consulting.
We here's here's a here's a compromise for you. Okay,
and we're doing this with some clients. Let's say, Steve,
this is kind of a pain of the rare. We
(38:09):
don't have time for this, but we want to go
We do want to go out, and we want a tour,
and we want to get our name on a wait list,
you know, right after the first Can we meet with
you right now and we'll just get the process started,
and then can you set up the tours for after
the first of the year. Yes, the answer is yes,
So we can do the work for you right now
(38:32):
and then set up the tours for the first week
of January, maybe February something like that. If that is
resonating with you nine one three nine four five twenty
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and uh, just want to spend a couple of minutes
(38:54):
to let you know about Obviously, Christmas is coming up, man.
I love going to our church. We have a Chrism
service and at the end, the music is so awesome,
the word is so powerful. It's just beautiful. I love
everything about it. And then every single year we end
the service with the lights down and we light one
(39:14):
candle in the front, and then two candles, and then
two candles light four and we right and everyone lights
each other's candles and then this glow starts at the
front of the church and it goes all the way
back while the band is playing Silent Night, and then
everyone's singing that together in the glow of these candles.
There's something magical about that. I love it. Christmas Eve,
(39:35):
we go to my in law's house over in Topeka
and we have a great time there, and then we
see my mom and spend some time with her on
Christmas Day and it's just wonderful and this is my
favorite time of year. And Darren, do you have any traditions?
What do you have planned for Christmas this year? Well?
Speaker 1 (39:53):
This year is special because I became a grandfather for
the first time.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
How last week? Right?
Speaker 1 (39:58):
So yeah, so that's going to be exciting. That's first time,
your first time, grandpa, first time. Yeah, congratulations. And our
tradition is we will watch a Christmas Story with Ralphie. Oh,
I have to watch the Red Ryder bb gun every
single year. That's our that's our tradition.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
You got to do it.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Yeah, and uh, I try to avoid the uh family
wearing pajama thing.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Not a fan of that.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
I did it once and I'm.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Hoping you're like one and done on that one.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Yeah, but I know now with the new granddaughter, you
know it's coming when she comes back to Grandpa. Are
you going to do the family pajama thing? Yes?
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Yes, well yes, honey, inside, I'll be going no no, yeah, no, yeah,
grand grandkid asked you to do something, You're you're doing it. Yeah,
I'm whipped. Well, congratulations, tell you and I hope you
and your family have a wonderful, wonderful Christmas.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Back at you, and I hope you nobody gets burned
by any candles or any hot wax gets stripped on you.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Oh no, no, no, I'm sure it's happened. But you know,
on my my mom's side, the Quevis side, we make
uh Tamali's homemade and we've I've worked with my mom
for years trying to perfect this recipe. We've got it down.
I wouldn't say there as good as Aunt Kouka made,
God rest or Soul, but the man, they're right in
(41:12):
there and they're good. And we make probably twelve to
fifteen dozen hot tomalis. They their killer, sounds delicious, their killer.
So I can't wait to do that with my mom's.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Leave those out for Santa instead of cookies.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
There we go. Santa will love me for a little
sausa and Tomali's. Yeah, ah, there we go. Absolutely Anyway,
It's my favorite time of the year, and I hope
you and yours have a wonderful, wonderful Christmas. I'm Steve
Keeker and I wish you grace in peace. May God
bless you and your family on this day and always
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