Seniors Real Estate Specialist® (SRES®) · Colorado Springs
Senior Home Transition & Downsizing Help in Colorado Springs
Whether it's your own next move or a parent's, I get you the information you need to decide whether to stay or move, bring in the right people, and sell the home at a pace that works for you. Most families start with one conversation.
Answers by Weldon Hobbs · Team Hobbs Realty
SRES® (Seniors Real Estate Specialist®) · PMP® (Project Management Professional) · Certified Financial Coach
More about Weldon →“What impressed us most was that Weldon wasn’t focused on simply selling our house. He helped us think through the bigger picture, including timing, preparation, and how our decisions would impact our overall financial goals.”
“What stood out to me was that he actually listened to what we wanted to accomplish. He didn’t try to change our plan. Instead, he built on it… By the time we were ready to list the house, we felt prepared instead of rushed.”
Who I help
- Homeowners deciding whether to stay, rightsize, or move
- Adult children helping a parent, including from another state
- Couples moving to senior living or closer to family, here or somewhere else
- Families handling a parent's home after a move to senior living or a death
How I can help
Downsizing and rightsizing
Deciding whether to stay, rightsize, or move, then planning the sale and the move as one project. We start with what you want the next chapter to look like and work back from there.
See whether to downsize or stay and the steps to downsizing.
Helping aging parents
Support for adult children helping a parent decide and move, whether you live nearby or in another state. Your parent stays the decision-maker, and I keep everyone on the same page.
See helping aging parents decide and selling a parent's home from out of state.
Senior living moves
Selling the longtime home around a move to independent living, assisted living, or a life plan community, and timing the sale with the move-in date. When it helps, I connect families with a senior living advisor.
Move coordination
When I'm listing your home, I organize the Downsizer Dream Team for the moving parts: cleanout, donation or estate sale options, cleaners, staging, photos, and movers. I recommend the professionals and you approve each one. You hire and pay each provider directly; I receive no referral fees.
Inherited & estate home sales
Selling a home after a death, through probate or a trust, or deciding what to do with an inherited house. I handle the house; your attorney handles the estate.
See selling a home after a death in the family and what to do with an inherited house.
Stay-or-move decisions & aging in place
When staying is the right answer, a second set of objective eyes on the home and the contacts to make it safer. We look at what it really costs to stay before you decide.
The first conversation
It's always safety first, human being to human being. Is everyone safe, and does the home need anything right now to make it safer?
Most people I meet have been aging in place for years, and a second set of objective eyes helps make that work. If something needs attention, we have the contacts who can assess what's going on and help. It's an overall check on how things are going, so we can head off risks early.
From there, we talk through the situation: what's prompting the conversation, who's involved, who makes the decisions, and what the timeline looks like. I also make sure everything is set up to be done legally and correctly, including whether anyone holds a power of attorney.
When parents are of sound mind, they're the decision-makers, even when their adult children are closely involved. With the parents' permission, I share information with their children, who are often the ones making sure everything makes sense. I understand and respect that, and I hope my children do the same.
We pace things so no one feels overwhelmed. You leave that first conversation with next steps planned around your situation, because every family's needs are different.
The Senior Home Transition Plan
The plan follows the Life → Wealth → Real Estate™ method I developed: life goals come first, then whether the move makes financial sense, and only then the right property and the sale.
Life
- Define what the move is for: stay and modify the home, rightsize, relocate, or move to senior living.
- Clarify who decides, who has legal authority to act, the timeline, and where you're going next.
Wealth
- Look at what each option costs and what the home can fund, and take the specific tax, legal, and financial questions to your CPA, attorney, or financial planner.
Real estate
- Build the timeline and work out what has to happen before what.
- Assemble your Downsizer Dream Team. I recommend the professionals, you approve them, and I work with them to coordinate the moving parts.
- Coordinate belongings, cleanout, donation or estate sale options, and the move through the right specialists.
- Decide what the home needs before it's listed, and what it doesn't.
- Prepare, price, market, negotiate, and sell, and time the closing with the move.
For a closer look at each step, see the steps to downsizing in Colorado Springs.
Not sure which step you're on? That's what the first call is for.
What I handle, and who else may be involved
I'm a project manager at heart, but at the end of the day, most of this work is facilitation: facilitating goals, attitudes, and people so everything moves together. That means I over-communicate, and when something changes, I communicate that too, because there's usually a good reason for it and it keeps everyone on the same page.
What I handle: listening and assessing the situation, building the plan and timeline, recommending the professionals, coordinating them, pricing, preparing, marketing, negotiating, and selling the home, and timing the closing with the move. On a listing, I can coordinate the cleanout, cleaners, staging, and professional photos.
Who else may be involved, depending on what you need:
- An estate or elder law attorney, and a CPA or financial planner
- A senior living advisor, when the next home is a community with care
- A senior move manager or professional organizer
- Junk removal, donation pickup, or an estate sale company
- Cleaners, contractors, and a stager
- Movers and the title company
These professionals perform their own services, and you pay them directly. Team Hobbs Realty receives no referral fees from any of them. See who should be on your downsizing team and what a senior move manager does.
The worries that come with a move
Listening to what concerns you, and meeting you where you are, is most of the job. These are the worries I hear most, and how we handle each one.
Losing independence, control, or privacy
You stay the decision-maker. Family members are welcome in every conversation you want them in, and I share information with them only with your permission. Nothing moves faster than you're comfortable with.
Feeling overwhelmed
A move after decades in one home is a big project. We break it into steps, put the next ones in writing, and handle one thing at a time.
Making the wrong decision
We lay the options side by side, including staying, before anything is decided. Sometimes the right answer is "not yet." If you're unsure, what people regret most after downsizing is a good place to start.
Leaving familiar routines and a home full of memories
Time helps, and so does deciding together what goes to family, what moves with you, and what finds a new home. See where to donate, sell, or recycle belongings.
Wanting to leave the home to the children
That's a real option, with real tax and legal trade-offs. See whether to sell, gift, or leave the home to your children.
A house that needs work
You don't have to fix everything before you sell. See what not to fix before selling and selling as-is or making repairs first.
No family nearby to help
I can be the local point person and coordinate the people on the ground. See selling a parent's home from out of state.
Thinking a paid-off home costs nothing to keep
Staying has its own cost. Taxes, insurance, and upkeep keep coming. It's a wealth tax most people don't see. See whether staying in a paid-off home is really free.
Worrying about having nowhere to go
That's the fear that makes calling early so important. The earlier we talk, the more options there are.
Two examples
One seller had already hired his own movers. Once his belongings were out, I coordinated junk removal for what was left, then cleaners, then staging and professional photos to position the home to sell. His spouse's care needs were driving the move, and they were relocating to Texas, so we also connected them with a senior living advisor there who helps families find a life plan community with graduated levels of care. They needed to make the right choice for both of them.
Another homeowner called after falling several months behind on her mortgage, with no realistic way to catch up. We connected her with loan officers and looked into whether other professionals could help. When keeping the house wasn't realistic, we sold it and got her all the equity we could, and she moved in with family. She had been afraid of becoming homeless, and we weren't going to let that happen.
What clients say
From reviews clients posted on Google.
“…they helped my mother even after the move in and did everything they could to help her make her new house a home…”
“He guided us through buying a starter home for our daughter and, more importantly, helped us strategically structure the purchase to meet today’s needs while protecting our family for the future.”
“He walked me through how my choices could affect my taxes and long-term financial plans… including how to address issues with my CPA, agent, and lender.”
“We didn’t know whether we wanted to sell our home to invest in a new property and they walked through the numbers with us to ensure it made financial sense.”
“You can count on Team Hobbs going the extra mile! … Weldon even helped me make dumpster runs just so we could get out of the house on time.”
Questions families ask
Do we have to decide anything now?
No. Many families start talking well before they're ready to move. See whether to downsize or stay.
How do I help a parent decide whether to stay or move?
Start with what they want and whether the home still works for them, not with the house. See helping aging parents decide.
Can adult children or our advisors join the conversations?
Yes, whenever you want them there. When parents are of sound mind, they make the decisions.
Can I sell my parent's house with a power of attorney?
Often, yes, if the power of attorney gives the agent authority to sell real estate. See selling a parent's house with a power of attorney.
Should we sell before moving into senior living?
It depends on timing and how the move will be paid for. See selling before moving into senior living and the differences between senior living options.
Can we sell and buy at the same time?
Yes, with planning. See selling and buying at the same time.
Do you help buyers too?
Yes, including buyers looking for a single-level or accessible home. See finding a single-level or accessible home.
Free guide: 150 Concerns of Downsizers
Answered personally by Weldon — usually the same day.
The Platinum Group, REALTORS® · Senior transitions across El Paso County
- A current value on your home — no obligation to list
- Options mapped out: sell, right-size, or stay a while longer
- Advisors and experts to help you get the job done
- If needed, we'll develop a project management plan to coordinate the decisions and pros needed to manage the move
Tell us where you are and Weldon replies personally, usually within one business day.
Colorado Springs resources
- Pikes Peak Area Agency on Aging (719-471-2096): free information, referrals, and caregiver support for adults 60 and older in El Paso, Park, and Teller counties. See help available for seniors who are moving or downsizing.
- El Paso County Assessor: the senior property tax exemption, and what happens to it when you move. See how the senior property tax exemption works.
- Pikes Peak Regional Building Department: permits for safety and accessibility changes if you decide to stay. See home modifications that make aging in place realistic.
- Seniors Blue Book (Colorado Springs): A local directory of senior housing, care, and services. I wrote about how to decide whether it's time to downsize: Time to Downsize in Colorado Springs? Start With the Life You Want
Let's talk about where things stand
If you're starting to think about a move, for yourself or for a parent, I can help you sort out where things stand and what a sensible first step looks like, so you're set up for success.
