How To Move Your Mom®
How to Move Your Mom (and Still be on Speaking Terms Afterward) is the place for that conversation we all need to have – because moving your mom, your dad, or yourself isn’t just about moving things from one place to another. It is so much more complicated than that! There’s an increasing number of generations living at the same time…and there’s a lot of life to live in later life. HTMYM features top experts in senior living communities, placement agencies, realtors, and family members who’ve been through it all.Please join us as we explore the possibilities, complexities, and potential of later life. We’ll search for answers to the questions most people don’t know to ask so that all generations can flourish together.
How To Move Your Mom®
009: Real Estate & Later Life: Would You Like to Save Some Money? - Alison MacCracken
This week's guest on How to Move Your Mom (and still be on speaking terms afterward) is @AlisonMacCracken, ranked among the top 1% of Realtors across the U.S. As a realtor with Sotheby’s International Realty, she built The MacCracken Team, where her team’s realtors are all certified Senior Real Estate Specialists – so they know the benefits available for those who are 55 years or older. Alison serves as a founding board member and vice-chair of Westside Pacific Villages, a non-profit dedicated to galvanizing that community to support the older adults living there.
Episode Sponsor:
Clear Home Solutions takes care of a lifetime's worth of treasures - and all the emotions attached to them - when it's time for you or your senior parent to move or make their home safe and organized for their later years. Got photos? We can organize and digitize those for you, too.
What you will learn from this episode:
- What she loves about her work and why she enjoys working with older adults and their families.
- The advantage of working with a realtor who’s a certified Senior Real Estate Specialist.
- What tax implications older adults should know about when it comes to real estate.
- What it takes to make a home safe and comfortable for people to live out their later years.
- How people of all ages and needs can also benefit from those same home adjustments.
- What the Village Movement is about and how she put together Westside Pacific Villages.
Connect with Alison MacCracken:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisonmaccracken/
Website: http://www.maccracken.com/
Connect with Marty Stevens-Heebner:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martyheebner/
Website: https://howtomoveyourmom.com/
Email: marty@clearhomesolutions.com