“We’re not sure it’s actually time.”
Is It Time?
A calm, two-minute check that shows a family where things stand. It won’t push a move — it can just as easily say not yet.
Built to hand to a family. Everything below opens immediately — no email walls, no follow-up calls, no capture of any kind. Your client stays your client.
Nine free tools you can send — or fill out together — based on exactly where your client is stuck. Instead of a generic brochure, the family enters their own numbers and gets an answer built for them, in about two minutes, with no email and no follow-up calls. They’re honest enough to say “not yet” or “let’s start planning” — which keeps them safe to hand out with your name on them, and keeps you in the conversation.
Every card opens the tool directly · Houston links first where a Houston edition exists; the national version works anywhere.
Aging-in-place is the conversation you’re having most right now. When a family leans toward staying home, don’t debate it — run it. Open the 5-Year Cost Comparison together, enter their real numbers, and let them watch where the curves cross. It’s clarity, not a pitch — which is exactly why it opens the planning conversation instead of ending it.
A calm, two-minute check that shows a family where things stand. It won’t push a move — it can just as easily say not yet.
Five things to do now, the one question that decides whether Medicare covers rehab, and a summary the family can text to one person. Nothing saved, no email.
Five honest questions, then the family enters their own numbers and watches where the curves cross. Year one usually looks cheaper at home; the tool shows the years nobody talks about. Sometimes the math says stay — and it says so.
Scripts and framing for the talk families dread — built to keep the conversation alive, not to win it.
The same guidance in her voice, not about her, with a “send to my spouse” share built in. Some families just send her the link.
Situation in, the right professional out, in order, with what each one does and who pays them. Nobody on the list pays to be there.
Counterintuitive but true: an occupational therapist comes before a contractor. The sequence, explained.
The questions to ask, ten red flags, and a scorecard for comparing three communities side by side. It is willing to say walk away.
Two ways to see the money: the quick interactive gives the 5-year picture in about two minutes, or the full spreadsheet downloads for the sibling who’d rather run it offline.
Send the one that fits where they’re stuck — and the rest of the Roadmap, 18 guides and 300+ pages, is there for whatever comes next.
Everything on this page is free and stays free. Print it, forward it, hand it out — no attribution needed, no permission required. Some of these you’ll end up using yourself. If a family comes back to you with better questions, the page did its job.
The tools say “not yet,” “stay home,” and “walk away” when that’s the honest answer. Senior Move Roadmap doesn’t own, operate, or accept payment from any senior living community, and nobody on any who-to-call list pays to be there. That neutrality is the reason you can put your name next to it.
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Free because Houston home sales fund it — never your client’s data.
A free resource from Daniel Stine, REALTOR®, SRES® · Real Broker, LLC · TX License #722692-SA