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A Word from Babette: Situations for cash home-buyers

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Unexpected financial needs come up. When that happens, our homes become burdens due to lack of financial flexibility.

On my first home, the realtor helped negotiate a repair for the bathroom to be done due to the soft flooring around the toilet. The repair wasn't done correctly and had to be redone. 

There was no final walk-through prior to closing. As this was a first investment, we didn’t know that was needed (I was 23 or 24 and my parents have never owned a home). Imagine the suprise when the soft yellow kitchen I liked was now sherbert orange, and where did that tree in the front yard come from?!

My ex-husband and I amicably divorced a couple of years later. Our realtor said all I needed to do was to sign the Quit Claim. Don’t do this! This does not release you from the mortgage. While just one payment was late, learning about it happened in an unpleasant way, and there is no good time to learn about negative impacts to one's credit. 

Other Real Estate Hurdles & Horror Stories:



A well-known and respected title company didn’t fulfill clearing a title; the title insurance covered the cost. The title company would go down in flames shortly afterwards, because the owners depleted the escrow accounts and bailed; they were on the run for some time. No kidding!

You can read about it in the Palm Beach Post, “Owners of Flagler Title indicted on fraud charges; Royal Palm Beach couple skipped town” (Ostrowski, 2009).

In addition to the title issue, the licensed professional mortgage broker did not fulfill their agreement to provide a rehab loan on the property.

On a different home, the value dropped 2/3rds during the mortgage crisis. (When an economist you respect advises against a purchase, ignore your inner validations methods and listen to the economist.)
A short-sale was achieved through great efforts from an investor-realtor contact.

Start to finish, the short-sale took approximately a year. A class-action lawsuit on the loan took another year.

Please note: short-selling may negatively impact you at tax time. Consult a tax professional before making this decision.

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When you get to the age where your parents are more in the child seat, you may find yourself navigating unfamiliar territory with limited resources. Remember that your parents likely had less resources and more unfamiliar territory. My parents were only 19 when they had me. As we are all seniors now, I have the utmost compassion and love for my parents and the challenges they faced all of these years. Perspective is a wonderful thing. My life choices now must always keep my parents' needs in mind.

I have many friends who have had more seemingly ideal family lives. Everyone's story is similar in that our parents are doing, or did, the best they could at the time. Our role is to love them unconditionally, even for those that chose not to keep their parents close to them.

I hold my parents close and am grateful to them for so many parts of who I am and have been.

This site honors parents and elders, flaws and successes. For the health and wellbeing of our elders in the community, we embrace the trails our elders blazed and endevour to provide helpful resources to look after each other to the best of our abilities.

Our local communities are as healthy of a location for seniors as any. We have access to quality healthcare and many resources, as well as transportation option, that allow our seniors to live closely to others, which is, in my opinion, critical in aging people where mental and physical stimulation is a strong supporter of overall well-being.

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