April, 2025 | Brezsny Associates

What About Reverse Mortgages?

April 24, 2025Today’s topic? Reverse Mortgages! It doesn’t take a mind-reader to know what many of you are already saying: “No way. I wouldn’t touch one if my life depended on it!!” (Which ironically, is often the case!) But even if some of you already have it on good authority that they’re a huge rip-off and don’t want to hear about them, let’s revisit the subject anyway. Here’s the big picture: Today more than 10,000 people in the US will turn 65. They’ll join millions of others...

Helping Your Parents

April 18, 2025We’re talking about the growing number of adult children who are trying to help their aging parents move out of the home they’ve lived in for thirty or forty years. Where to start? It goes without saying, leaving a longtime home is a daunting task. Even more so, when folks are in their 80s and 90s and wrestling with the entire spectrum of worries that come along with aging. For them, moving most often feels like a punishment or an existential threat. Things are frequently...

Today, another 10,000 people around the country will be turning 65 years old

April 11, 2025It has been a while…but now feels like the right time to rouse the chorus and echo one of the central refrains of this column over the last fifteen years - especially since there’s so much fear and anxiety percolating as people watch their retirement portfolios yo-yo back and forth while they worry about the future. Here’s the refrain: Today, another 10,000 people around the country will be turning 65 years old. That phrase will also be true tomorrow and the day after that and...

Summer is not the best time to try to sell a house

April 4, 2025Continuing the conversation…We’ve flipped the script on what used to be considered conventional wisdom in real estate. Contrary to popular belief, the middle of summer is not the best time to try to sell a house and there’s plenty of market data to prove it. It’s those early-bird sellers who get their homes on the market by the first week of March who are the consistent winners in real estate’s annual sweepstakes. And it’s those other sellers, late to the game, who keep discovering that...