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Three Key Tips for Families During Senior Downsizing

Two Myths About Downsizing to Senior Living

Overcoming the Top 3 Obstacles to Downsizing

Downsizing: Numerous Options and the Emotional Journey

Tips to Facilitate a Senior Home Sale, Part 4

Tips to Facilitate a Senior Home Sale, Part 3

SASH Realty & Senior Home Sale Services

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SASH Senior Home Sale Services & Realty is a full-service brokerage that specializes in guiding seniors and their families through the entire home sale process. With our SASH Managed Home Sale, we tailor your home purchase or sale around your specific needs. We offer a range of services from packing and moving to minor home repairs and renovations. In some cases, we can offer a cash advance to assist a senior in moving out of their home and into their retirement community.

Rebecca Bomann

In 2005, Rebecca Bomann founded SASH to provide seniors with custom-designed home sale services. She combined her experiences in social work, senior care, and real estate to create SASH’s innovative model of care. motivated by her passion to serve

Rebecca believes that the purchase or sale of a client’s home is a significant life event, one that deserves the very best guidance, representation, and support. Rebecca’s real estate career is best defined by the extra miles she goes for clients to provide the best outcome, no matter the obstacles or circumstances.

Beginning with her years in social work, Rebecca’s career has always been about helping others. She assisted women and their children who needed to flee from an abusive home life, worked with homeless families as executive director of a non-profit, and volunteered as a hospital advocate for rape victims. During her year-long stay in South America, she worked in and lived as a resident in poor ghettos, helping build fresh water pipelines, helping build homes, teaching English, and aiding families in crisis. Prior to entering real estate, Rebecca cared for her grandfather in her home during the last 16 months of his life, gaining a first-hand understanding of the challenges of aging and caregiving.

As Founder and CEO of SASH, as well as a Realtor® and Senior Home Sale Specialist, Rebecca leads the company’s operations and also serves individual clients and families. In representing a client with their home sale, she brings her experience of managing the renovations of 300+ homes, and the important aspects of preparing a home for maximum appeal to the market. Her extensive knowledge in elder care and social work, together with 17+ years in real estate, provide a blend of expertise that fuels her work on behalf of others. It also fuels the mission of the company, of professional excellence and outstanding service to clients.

Rebecca graduated summa cum laude from Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, majoring in sociology. She enjoys spending time with her husband of 20+ years, and her two sons.

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Three Key Tips for Families During Senior Downsizing

How can families be supportive during a senior loved one's downsizing to senior living, and when is it time for Mom to let professionals take over? Rebecca Bomann, CEO of SASH Services (Sell a Senior's Home), joins Suzanne to advise families during downsizing. Sometime families help, and sometimes they get in the way and make it more complicated than it needs to be. Her three tips: Let mom take ownership of the move; let professionals be the bad guy; and validate mom's emotional journey.

Two Myths About Downsizing to Senior Living

Rebecca Bomann, CEO of SASH Services (Sell a Senior's Home), joins Suzanne to expose two myths: 1) You can only sell your home successfully at certain times of the year, and 2) All real estate brokers are the same.

Overcoming the Top 3 Obstacles to Downsizing

What are the obstacles to downsizing, and how can we get past them? Rebecca Bomann, CEO of SASH Services (Sell a Senior's Home), joins Suzanne to address obstacles people face as well as their solutions. Rebecca says, "I've sat in hundreds and hundreds of living rooms over the years that I've been providing these services, and my clients articulate to me why they don't feel like they can move even though they really want to or need to.

Downsizing: Numerous Options and the Emotional Journey

Rebecca Bomann, CEO of SASH Services (Sell a Senior's Home), joins Suzanne to talk about various options for downsizing and moving, including for those 55 and up, as well as the emotional journey of leaving the family home. Rebecca says, "Happily, there are so many options out there for seniors who are looking to downsize from their home, more and more living options, a greater variety of pricing options for people, amenities, activities. They're allowing pets more in these communities. There's a lot of open doors and opportunities. So it doesn't feel like clients are looking at kind of a barren landscape of where to go. There's a rich buffet of opportunity and options where people can live."

Tips to Facilitate a Senior Home Sale, Part 4

“Moving is a huge mental and emotional adjustment for your loved one, and you're best served being there for them, not to be out painting walls. One of the things that I always tell caregivers is, “Sometimes you just have to sit down and breathe, take care of yourself.” Suzanne is joined by Rebecca Bomann, CEO and founder of SASH Services, to provide tips for families having to sell a senior loved one's home to pay for their round-the-clock care.

Tips to Facilitate a Senior Home Sale, Part 3

“Don't start packing up the house and putting things in boxes while mom or dad is still living there.” Suzanne is joined by Rebecca Bomann, CEO and founder of SASH Services (Sell a Senior Home), to talk about how to best facilitate a home sale with a loved one who is there with Alzheimer's or dementia.

Tips to Facilitate a Senior Home Sale, Part 2

Suzanne is joined by Rebecca Bomann, CEO of SASH Services, for more tips on selling a senior loved one's home: get your legal paperwork in order, and choose professionals who understand the delicacy of talking to someone who has advancing dementia or Alzheimer's.

Tips to Facilitate a Senior Home Sale, Part 1

Suzanne is joined by Rebecca Bomann, the founder and CEO of SASH Services (Sell a Senior Home), to provide tips, guidance, and encouragement for families having to facilitate a home sale with a loved one who is there with Alzheimer's or dementia.

Family Dynamics During a Senior Home Sale, Part 4

Rebecca Bomann talks with Suzanne about the differences faced during the sale of a senior loved one's home in situations were there's an only child and where there are multiple siblings.

Family Dynamics During a Senior Home Sale, Part 3

Rebecca Bomann described more family roles: the "expert" who knows more than anyone on every topic, the "user" (person siphoning the loved one's resources), the volunteer angel, as well as the rallying team, a beautiful rallying of all the family members to help the loved one which makes an immeasurable impact.

Family Dynamics During a Senior Home Sale, Part 2

In this segment, Rebecca Bomann, CEO and founder of SASH Services, describes some typical roles that siblings and family members fall into during the...

Family Dynamics During a Senior Home Sale, Part 1

Family plays an outsized role during transitions. With all the stress, strife, and confusion for caregivers, it's easy to come apart at the seams with the family you love, particularly since it's the family home that's going to be sold. Rebecca Bomann, founder and CEO of SASH Services, joins Suzanne to explain a few things that happen to families during transitions so that you'll know what you're experiencing is normal.

Eight Tips for Selling Your Home in a Changing Market, Part 4

Rebecca Bomann, CEO and founder of SASH Services, shares some general sales statistics and summarizes her eight tips to make your home sale more successful in a changing real estate market.

Eight Tips for Selling Your Home in a Changing Market, Part 3

Rebecca Bomann, CEO and founder of SASH Services, provides more tips to make your home sale more successful. Sellers should expect these things in...

Eight Tips for Selling Your Home in a Changing Market, Part 2

Continuing from part 1, here are more tips to make your home sale more successful in a changing real estate market. 2) Study your competition. 3) Price in the sweet spot. 4) Broken should have a multifaceted marketing plan. 5) Interview potential real estate brokers.

Eight Tips for Selling Your Home in a Changing Market, Part 1

The real estate has shifted since May. You can still enjoy a successful change in your home sale, but a few expectations have changed. You can still sell a home within a few days, but you need to follow our tips to make that happen. The first tip: Presentation matters.

How Unscrupulous Family Members Exploit Seniors

This hour focuses on the major ways that senior homeowners can be taken advantage of through the process of selling their home. This final segment may surprise some listeners — one of the biggest sources of folks to take advantage of seniors are their own family members. The family should be there, advocating and having a loved one's best interests in mind, but that's not always the case. Some of the worst offenses come from their own family.

How Unscrupulous Real Estate Agents Exploit Seniors

This segment elaborates on ways that seniors can be taken advantage of by unscrupulous real estate agents. Rebecca Bomann, CEO and founder of SASH Services, joins Suzanne to discuss this topic. Rebecca has a lot of respect for her fellow agents, and there are a lot of really good real estate professionals in this industry. But like any industry, there are a few who are incompetent, insensitive, unscrupulous, or don't know how to address the special needs of senior home owners.

How Unscrupulous Home Flippers & Investors Exploit Seniors

This segment describes ways that unscrupulous house flippers and investors can take advantage of seniors. They're looking to get deals, to purchase a property for less than market value. But if you're 80 years old, hard of hearing, with family living out of town, and a flipper visits you using some of these strategies, it's disgraceful. Rebecca Bomann joins Suzanne to provide ways to offset this and protect yourself from these tactics.

How Unscrupulous Home Sellers Exploit Seniors

This hour focuses on ways that senior homeowners can be taken advantage of during the process of selling their home. This is the sale of their biggest asset to be able to pay for their care for the rest of their life, which they may have lived in for many decades, and the biggest financial transaction of their retirement years. Rebecca Bomann, CEO and founder of SASH Services, joins Suzanne to delve into this important topic for senior homeowners as well as their family members and caregivers.

Tips For When a Parent Moves: How Should Money Be Spent?

How should money be spent during a senior loved one's move? It's very emotional and sensitive time, with parents and their adult children having different perspectives and agendas. Adult children are worried about the parents' money lasting long enough for their care. They worry that they might have to mortgage their own home in a few years to pay for their Mom's care. Unless parents have set aside a nest egg, it's a concern because the cost of care is so high that proceeds from a home sale might only pay for care for a handful of years. Sometimes they don't want their parent to sell the home because they expect that home to be there for them when their loved one passes away. Meanwhile, what's best for Mom in her situation?

Tips For When a Parent Moves: Who Helps With Packing?

Who helps Mom through the sorting, packing and moving process? Everyone is well-meaning. Some Moms expect that their adult children will take four months' leave from work to go through every box, glass, and cross-stitch, remembering back to when family did that for each other. Yet many of today's adult children can't imagine how they'd be able to take leave from their job, travel out of state, and pay for a flight to sort through decades of household items – they're overwhelmed by that idea, and it causes tension in the relationship.

Tips For When a Parent Moves: Their Pet

Adult children and their aging parents have wildly differing perspectives on moving. This segment builds a bridge to understanding each others' perspectives when it comes to the senior loved one's pet, which befuddles many adult children. Adult children are thinking of a monthly budget, trying to make funds last as long as possible, and are concerned about how that's affected by an animal's daily care, walks, feeding, medication, and vet care. Mom, however, sees the pet as a family member who gives joy, love, companionship, and comfort.

Tips For When a Parent Moves: Household Items

When it's time for a senior loved one's downsizing, their adult children may not quite understand or relate to the parents' perspective earned from living 50 years in their home as they see more pragmatic concerns about home repairs and time-consuming chores, and want to schedule moving deadlines based on available free time. Rebecca Bomann, the CEO of SASH Services, and Suzanne Newman talk about how to do right by our parents while helping them transition from a long-standing residence in their home to senior living.

12 Tips to Sell Your Home, Part 4

Continuing from part 3, in this segment Rebecca shares two more low-cost suggestions to maximize your net proceeds at the end of the sale: Add a fresh scent: Apple cinnamon or raspberry, with fragrances that aren't plugged in chemicals that could trigger allergies, a bowl of pot pourri, providing a pleasant scent; and leave while it's listed.

12 Tips to Sell Your Home, Part 3

Continuing from part 2, in this segment Rebecca shares more low-cost suggestions to maximize your net proceeds at the end of the sale. Expenses can be paid for by following the tips from part 1: Pressure wash the outside; buy a new welcome mat — a welcoming, modern mat for the front door; clean up the patio; and retro decor is OK.

12 Tips to Sell Your Home, Part 2

Rebecca Bomann, the CEO of SASH Services, joins Suzanne Newman to talk about tips to help get your house ready to be sold. Continuing from part 1, in this segment Rebecca shares more low-cost suggestions to maximize your net proceeds at the end of the sale. Any expenses can be paid for by following the tips from Part 1: Take down heavy drapes and window coverings; swap out old and low-watt bulbs for bright new ones; remove family photos and paintings, so prospective buyers will be able envision the home as it might be for them; and do a professional deep cleaning.

12 Tips to Sell Your Home, Part 1

Whether you're an empty-nester or looking for a senior loved one who's lived in their house for 50 years, often a move seems like a mountain of a challenge. These low-cost suggestions will maximize your net proceeds: Part 1: pack first; sell some things.

8 Things Every Senior Deserves, part 4

Eight things every senior homeowner deserves during a home sale. This segment focuses on the last two things, which are about the journey to say goodbye to the home, without minimizing emotions. 7: Space to grieve. Give a senior homeowner the space and opportunity to feel sad. 8: An opportunity to say goodbye.

8 Things Every Senior Deserves, part 3

Eight things every senior homeowner deserves during a home sale. This segment focuses on the fifth and sixth things: 5: Home mementos. 6: Caring advocates.

8 Things Every Senior Deserves, part 2

Eight things every senior homeowner deserves during a home sale. This segment focuses on the third and fourth things: 3: Decision-making: Every senior deserves the ability to make their own decisions, give them choices to make. 4: Knowledge and information.

8 Things Every Senior Deserves, part 1

Eight things every senior homeowner deserves during a home sale. There are eight things they deserve, and doesn't matter what type of house they're selling or how much it's worth. This segment focuses on the first two items that every senior should experience: 1. Kindness. 2. Patience.

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