Senior Care Live: May 16, 2026

Listen in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, visits with Ben Souchek, owner of Home Downsizing Solutions. Don’t miss the Senior Care In The News Report of a local home buyer scamming Kansas homeowners, according to a lawsuit from the State’s Attorney General.  Ben explains how to spot a service like this and compares that to how his firm does business, the right way.  Ben also addresses the timing gap, and how Home Downsizing Solutions can help someone needing to sell their house but can’t immediately move to their senior living community.  Steve answers the important question of when to consider moving from home to a senior care community.  #SeniorCare #SeniorCareLive #SeniorCareConsulting #SeniorLiving #KansasCitySeniorCare #SeniorCarePlacement #SeniorCareAdvisor #Franchise #SeniorCareFranchise #SandwichGeneration 

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Speaker 1 0:01

Are you caring for an aging loved woman? Are you a senior searching for answers? Welcome to Senior Care Live, a program dedicated to you providing information, education, and resources for seniors and their caregivers. And now, America's Senior Care Consultant, Steve Kuker.

Speaker 3 0:23

Hello, and welcome to Senior Care Live. I'm Steve Kuker, your senior care consultant, and I really appreciate you tuning in today. And we have a wonderful program today with my friend and special guest in the studio, Mr. Ben Souchek, with a new service called Seven Days Cash by Home Downsizing Solutions. And Ben, welcome back to Senior Care Live.

Speaker 0:45

Thanks for having me back again. And yes, , a slight rebranding. I've had a few names over the years. , the Sierra Group is my initial entity, which I still have. And then to , kind of speak to a more downsizing demographic, ,, I created another entity called Home Downsizing. And I think that might have been a little confusing that people thought I was more of a , dealt with people's stuff and moving, more so than buying a house. So I kind of combined the two with , the seven days cash representing our primary service, which is buying a house whenever a person wants to sell it as quickly or slowly, buy home downsizing solutions. So that's kind of a long-winded explanation, but , that that's where I came from.

Speaker 3 1:29

All right. And if you want to visit the website, both of them are very good. Number sevendayscash.com. So you don't spell it out, 7dayscash.com or homedownsizing.com. And Ben, here we go with some news. And now, senior care in the news.

Speaker 1 1:53

A news report from Steve Kuker, president of Senior Care Consulting.

Speaker 3 1:59

All right, so this was, I actually stumbled into this on social media. There's a ton of news by local stations. So this is from Fox 4, right here in town, publicly available. And it was , posted March 19th, 2026. So just , what just a couple of two, three months back. And , it's talking about there's a particular , company accused of scamming Kansas homeowners , in the , attorney general's lawsuit. So , Attorney General Chris Kobach filed a lawsuit against , this particular company , accusing the business of wide spread consumer fraud. And it goes through to talk about this particular company. If you want to, and I'm not going to name the company, but this is publicly available to information. So , just it like if you're on Facebook or whatever, , just tag Fox 4 and , and it was March 19th, and you'll easily find it. But it was talking about , , buying houses and with false promises taking advantage of their equity under the guise of fast , fee-free, commission-free home sales. And I won't go through all of this stuff, but , Attorney General Kobach, the lawsuit claims that this particular company traps homeowners in one-sided contracts. And Ben and I have talked about this you know many times , on the on the program before, just to be real careful about who you enter into a contract with. , and it's talking about sending all of this mail out, and it was misleading. But I'm just going to jump down to the bottom line here. Let me find it here. , this particular company, this was a quote by Mr. Kobach, ,, is a scam disguised as a service. They sent fake checks to hardworking Kansas homeowners, promised a simple real estate sale with no fees, and used intimidation and false liens to extract consumer's equity. And so, Ben, let's talk about that. You've been warning people for a long time that these companies are out there, and frankly, it gives good guys like you and legitimate companies like yours , kind of a bad name. But , let's talk about that. And you weren't surprised at all when I sent this to you.

Speaker 4:20

Correct. , as you mentioned, there's and unfortunately in any industry you have bad actors the way it seems. Every time, yeah. But , certainly when it comes to real estate, when it comes to , sometimes or often , maybe a person's greatest asset, sometimes their only asset, and they're counting on that equity to get into , you know an independent living or a senior living, some type of their next home, , then it really is critical on what happens to that. And of course a lot of people or pretty much anybody that I work with understand that when they're dealing with a cash home buyer, they're going to be trading a little bit of that equity for the convenience and ease and just the reduction of stress and all the benefits we offer. But as you alluded to with that story, then there are companies that just I'm not sure how to politely put , no swearing. , no swearing, but , really do a disservice to the entire industry and manipulate or take advantage of the consumers that maybe don't know any better. , and understandably, a person sometimes doesn't sell buy or sell more than one or two houses in their lifetime, so they don't know necessarily what some people are telling them, whether it's right or wrong. Yeah. And especially if someone is threatened with legal actions, that really adds another dimension into it because nobody likes to be , be pulled into a lawsuit or be threatened with an attorney, , some of those things. So it's very unfortunate if , you know these things happened to the homeowners.

Speaker 3 6:03

Well, and a few things that stood out, obviously I just read a few pieces of that article. And again, if you are listening to this and you want to check it out, , just look at the information that I shared right at the top, and you can easily find this. And there's an active lawsuit going on against this company. A couple things that stood out to me. They got people to sign a contract. Clearly the people didn't know what they were signing. And then they're using intimidation tactics, so , that is no good. , and then they also mentioned about filing a lien against the property. What's that about?

Speaker 6:37

What I assume that's alluding to is that I have heard this , with other with some non-reputable companies doing this, is that once a company , like this, a cash home buyer gets a contract to buy a house from someone, that is a contract, it's a legally obligating contract . But some people will interpret that as that company now has an equitable interest, I believe is a legal term. And so these companies, in order to protect that equitable interest, they will sometimes file something on public records to cloud the title or claim an interest in that property. Where it runs into a real legal problem, I believe anyway, I'm just a disclose, I'm not an attorney, so this is this is not legal advice for anyone. Sure. , but where it runs into a problem, at least as my understanding, is that if it's a wholesaler, what we talked about before on the show, where a person or company has no actual intent on buying the house, their whole intent is to get a contract and then sell that contract, they have no equitable interest. That is not an equitable interest. And so if they only have that paper the contract, yeah, and then go to public records to the county courthouse and file a lien on that property to cloud it so that the owner cannot do anything else if they change their mind, then that is a real legal problem.

Speaker 3 7:59

Yeah, that's going to come back to haunt you because six months down the road, these other this unscrupulous company, they're gone, and now you sell the house on your own or you do something else, then you go to the title. Oh, wait a minute, there's someone else on the title, they have a lien against this, and then that's going to be a disaster trying to unwind that. Correct.

Speaker 8:16

That can cause a nightmare for the homeowner , when they had no knowledge that that was actually happening behind the scenes anyway. That that's often done without the homeowner even knowing that that's being filed.

Speaker 3 8:28

Yep. And I bet somewhere in the fine print in that contract that you signed, it might be in there. But , , or maybe not. I don't know. But , and then the other thing that that caught my attention was , they send out this these mass mailers , to you know every homeowner in Johnson County, Miami County, Wyandotte County, , all these different counties. So they send out tens of thousands of these mailers with a check. And we've all received that. It says it's , not an actual check, but it's what you could get. But with these really inflated numbers, we want to buy your house for you know some s eye-popping number. And then in the fine print it says, and oh, by the way, but you're going to have to reduce you know that by the amount of repairs and all this kind of stuff. It's just misleading at the best and it's , and it's illegal at the worst, I guess.

Speaker 9:19

I think misleading is probably , more accurate , because no matter what industry a person's in, it will have those issues in it. So but yes, that the whole thing is to be very careful about , who you're doing business with.

Speaker 3 9:35

And Ben, if someone is considering doing business with a company like that, and then we just got their attention big time, they have questions for you. What's the best way for them to reach out to you to discuss that and maybe look into working with your service, which is a legitimate quality service?

Speaker 9:52

Sure, Steve. A person can, of course, go to our website, sevendayscash.com or homedownsizing.com, they can call 855-291-5005, and we would be very happy to be very transparent as far as what we can do for a person and give a homeowner the options , that we can offer to them.

Speaker 3 10:12

Excellent, excellent. We'll have more with Ben coming right up. But first, the senior care live question of the week. If your loved one needs to move to assisted living, but all of their money is tied up in a house that needs $20,000 in repairs, the fastest way to access the equity in the house is A list the house on the retail market and take your chances, B. Sell the house as is for cash, C take out a second mortgage, or D. sell your house to the assisted living community. What's your choice?

Speaker 1 10:43

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Speaker 3 11:00

Now back to the Senior Care Live question of the week. If your loved one needs to move to assisted living, but all their money is tied up in a house that needs $20,000 in repairs, the fastest way to access the equity in the house is A list the house on the retail market and take your chances, hope for the best. B sell your house as is for cash. C take out a second mortgage or D sell your house to the assisted living community. And the answer is B B sell the house as is for cash. And Ben, why is B the right answer for that statement?

Speaker 13:06

Well, Steve, as far as I'm concerned, of course, if a person is looking at timing as a primary issue, they're I do believe that , selling to a company like mine that we can close as quickly as a title company can check title and prepare closing paperwork. , for us it's been within twenty-four hours of getting a contract before, that truly is the fastest way if a person wants if , a person wants to accomplish that and timing is the critical issue with that.

Speaker 3 13:36

And not have to drop 20 grand and deal with the retail market and good luck dealing with all of the , you know all the repairs and you turn into a subcontract or general contractor at that point. So correct. Ben, if this is , resonating with our listeners, what's the best way for them to , reach you?

Speaker 13:53

They can just go to the number seven dayscash.com or call eight five five-291-5005, and of course we'd be happy to assist a person any way that we can.

Speaker 3 14:06

All right, and here we are sitting here in middle of May, just unbelievable. Talking about you know, spring cleaning leads to spring selling, so you know the weather's warming up and , it's now we're entering that traditional season of spring cleaning and spring real estate, and you know, you talk to so many seniors right now, and they look out at the yard and they're like, oh, I gotta bring, you know, I gotta bring back the services for that. They're looking at the gutters, I have to bring in services for that, and they're realizing that just another summer of maintaining a large house , is just is just too much. And it seems to be a trigger point for making a move, but the thought, frankly, the thought of just of getting the house ready for that spring, real estate market is , just too overwhelming. So how does seven days cash change that story or that narrative, if you will?

Speaker 15:01

Sure, Steve. The biggest thing again is that we provide convenience and certainty and less stress. So if a person is considering selling a house in a traditional manner, , you especially if a house hasn't had any updates or repairs for quite some time, , you'll you'd be looking most likely at repairs, updates, maintenance, , besides the yard work and everything that a person typically would do to make a house look pretty and nice and bring it to that show ready condition. And then you have keeping the house in a show ready condition. , the strangers walking through the house to show it the potential buyers and , if you when you have a buyer, then they will typically always have a whole house inspection which they will typically nitpick the house, and that's their job is to identify any potential issues with the house for the buyer and their lender. Then you have the appraiser, so you have all those things that come into play that a person doesn't realize until you're in the middle of it. And one of the biggest things that we overcome, of course, besides all of those, is then you have the stuff in the house. So if you're concerned with just moving and taking the things that you want to take to your next home, that's all you need to worry about with us. , when we buy a house as is, it's with all the stuff or whatever stuff that a person wants to leave in the house. And then there's that catch 22 of, well, is the apartment or the new home ready, or when will it be ready exactly? Versus when in a traditional sale, when a person, when a buyer closes, they're going to want to take possession of that house when they close. Yep. And so with us, we can buy the house, a person has the cash ready to deploy in whatever manner that they want to, maybe it's to buy into the community that they're moving to, but then they can take 30, 60, 90 days or so to make that move so that they're not pushed, they're not stressed, they're not hurried out of their out of their home.

Speaker 3 17:09

And there's, you said, you made a lot of points there. So you can sell the house in as is condition, you can get cash in hand very quickly, you can stay in the house, you know, even after closing, and they don't have to worry about all the stuff in the house. Take what you want, and then you can deal with that , and help them out with that. So , again, if that's resonating with our with our listeners out there, Ben, best way to contact you?

Speaker 17:36

Just go to the number 7dayscash.com, sevendayscash.com, or contact us at 855-291-5005.

Speaker 3 17:45

And then there's , many times, usually I would say most of the time, ,, there's a little bit of a timing gap. So your loved one, it could be your parent or your spouse, your loved one, maybe they have a fall, they have some sort of a sudden decline in health. You know, life happens and stuff happens, right? So , this person now needs to move to assisted living, but they need to move like right now. And then the community, in most assisted living communities, there's a community fee that could be two or three thousand dollars, upwards of five, seven, eight thousand dollars, a one-time fee upfront, and usually the first month's rent, which could be anywhere from six to ten thousand dollars. But how do you handle all that if mom's wealth is tied up in the equity of her house? Your loved one's wealth is tied up in their house. How do you help families bridge that timing gap?

Speaker 18:37

That's , again, one of the biggest benefits that we can offer to a family is that we can go ahead and buy the house, but then so that the family has the funds available for those items that you mentioned, so that they can secure an apartment in a community and then take that 30, 60 or whatever number of days they want to make that move. So if the apartment isn't quite ready, , exactly when they want to move, they know that they've secured it so that they can move when it's ready, but they're not being pushed out of their house. So they can feel at home, relax until they make that move right away. Or as quickly as possible. If they need to get into a safer spot, we can close very quickly and allow that to happen as well, so that they're not waiting to free up that equity to get a parent or loved one to a safer spot.

Speaker 3 19:28

Well, and I've seen so many people they'll move and they might have you know a little bit of cash, maybe , one of the adult children, you know, maybe they front them some cash, but then and but they're counting on the house getting sold, and then they have to go through all this stuff, and months down the road they finally get it solved. It causes a big mess. And you could you take care of that basically by just having the funds. You're a real cash buyer, you're not doing any of the unscrupulous stuff that we talked about earlier in that senior care in the news report. So Ben, again, I really appreciate you coming in today, talking about that timing gap, talking about spring cleaning leads to spring selling, and that spring real estate , market, and that kicks off the big real estate , season, I guess if you want to call it that. , and then , we talked about , , that news report as well. , one more time, what's the best way to reach you?

Speaker 20:21

Sevendayscash.com or of course homedownsizing.com or 855-291-5005. And thank you for having me here today again, Steve. And as always, if we can be of service to your listeners, we would love to have the opportunity to do that.

Speaker 3 20:39

Excellent. Thank you, Ben, and we'll have more coming right up.

Speaker 1 20:44

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Speaker 3 22:06

Welcome back. You're listening to Senior Care Live on the Senior Care Broadcasting Network. For podcasts of the program, visit SeniorCareLive.com or wherever you get your podcasts. Just want to say thanks again to my friend and guest in the studio today, Mr. Ben Souchek, again with Home Downsizing Solutions, and then his new service, Seven Days Cash by Home Downsizing Solutions. And I'll tell you what, if I ever have a house that I'm going to I want to sell for cash, I just want to walk away. I don't want to mess with it. I know I'm not sitting on a gold mine. Okay. Now, if I had a house, it's retail ready and I could sell it for some premium price, of course, I'll do that. Everyone's going to do that. But if I have an inherited house or I have a house I've lived in for 40 years and it needs some foundation repair and a roof replaced and a new HVAC system and it needs updating and floors and new carpet and paint and everything else, we're looking at, you know, $50,000, $60,000 worth of repair, and I'm tired. I just want to walk away and I find value in that. I would reach out to Ben Souchek in about a second. And so he's a great guy, and , I would recommend that you reach out to him and , give him a call. Have him come out, take a look at your house, and , and he'll make you a fair offer, and you can decide whether that works for you or not. It's the polar opposite of this stuff that that I led the show off with, with that senior care of the news report. And I, you know, I thought of this over the break. This is where you need to use just some common sense. So companies like that are preying on people and they're good-natured people, trusting people, and they're counting on that. So if you get this check in the mail and it's for some eye-popping amount of money for your house, and you're like, well, you know what? That doesn't seem quite right. I don't even know if my house is worth that much. Go back to what your mom told you a long time ago. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Right? And as the attorney general outlined there, there were all sorts of gotchas in the in the fine prints, and , they put a lien against your property and all kinds of they withheld fees, they lied about no fees. Well, yeah, the fees were really high in there, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So and I just hate it because , a lot of people, a lot of a lot of older individuals who are retired, they're from the generation where they trust people, they take people at their word. And then unfortunately, you have some people like this taking advantage of that. I just hate that. The other problem, huge problem I have with that, is a lot of individuals living at home, maybe they've lost a spouse and maybe they're living alone and they'll they they're easier, a little easier target for some of these people because maybe they're starting to have a little some signs and symptoms of dementia. It's so common, it's unbelievable. And you may lose that you have that little bit of memory loss, maybe a little confusion. ,, and did I, you know, do I think that oh, that looks pretty good, and maybe you're not able to discern, well, that looks like a gimmick, or that that doesn't seem right. I'm going to throw it away, I'm not going to pay any attention to it. And you may lose the ability to do that. So , anyway, just be careful, and if all else fails, just give Ben a call. He will take very good care of you, I promise you that. So, all right, so let's shift gears here. And , I've had a lot of calls, I've had a lot of meetings with individuals, and , I've been, and this is the most commonly asked question I've talked about on the program before, but I've been, and again, you know me, if I've been asked , the same question over and over again in a short period of time, it's like a little bit of a nudge to say, you know, wait a minute, if all these people have this question, then , how many other people have the same question? Maybe I need to address that on the radio program. So let's talk about that today. And that question is, Steve, , when is the right time to move? , we're really not sure. And , we don't, you know, we don't want to move too soon. We don't want to wait too long. , we just we want to get it right. We just we want to get it right. How on the in the world, how on earth can you know , when the timing is right? And again, that is by far by a mile the most commonly asked question that I have been asked , over the past 23, 24 years. So , you know sometimes it's extremely obvious. , it's just it's so obvious. Sometimes , , it's you know we talked about that earlier, just a sudden health change. A fall, a fall could change everything. One fall, and you go to the hospital, you're under anesthesia, they do a hip replacement, then you go to a rehab center for you know three or four or five weeks, and all of a sudden now you might bounce back from that and do well. , a large percentage of time that that you'll see that happen, you don't. All of a sudden you're just not able to do things like you used to, and all of a sudden, kind of overnight almost, you need help with some of those daily tasks, getting dressed, getting in and out of the shower, taking your medications, etc. etc. So I like to say that the following things should trigger the conversation of considering moving from your home to a senior care community. And again, this should just trigger a conversation. Doesn't mean you should move, but you should definitely be talking about it if some of these things happen. So number one, and this is you know pretty clear-cut, when there's a safety issue at home, if , it's no longer safe to live at home and , and you have this safety issue, you need to be talking about that. And I wouldn't drag my feet on that. So let me just give you some examples. So leaving the stovetop burners on, I mean that that's a major, major, major problem. You cannot imagine how many times people have shared near-miss stories, or boy, we got lucky on that one. Now the good news is you can flip a breaker and turn an electric range off, or you can turn off the gas to a gaff stove. So , so not too hard to address, but , I would maybe do that proactively. If you even think there's a chance that that is an issue, just disable, just disable that that appliance. That'll take care of it. , wandering away and not able to find your way back home, that triggers a silver alert. And so you could go out for a walk around the block like you've done for the last 20 years, getting some fresh air and walking around the block, getting a little bit of exercise. But , at some point, , particularly if you have dementia, things start to look a little bit different. And all of a sudden you walk around the block and you're like, Well, wait a minute, this looks different. What's different? And then you get a little bit disoriented, a little bit confused, and you're like, Well, I think my house is down there. You just start walking. And pretty soon you could walk a mile or two away from your house, you're completely lost, you have no idea how to make your way back home. And you know, what if it's five degrees outside or a hundred and five degrees outside, like it has been sometimes, right? You could be , you could be walk wandering into traffic. I mean, all all sorts of terrible things could happen. You could do it at nighttime. I oh gosh. I heard the story of this one fellow, and God bless him, he was in a senior care community, he had dementia, his wife had been there to visit, and then she left to go home, like they have done many times before. He gets up really late at night, minimal staffing, and he walked away from the building. No one realized that he wasn't there all night long. So they went looking for him the next morning, and the tragedy of this story is this was in January, it was about 10 degrees outside. He was not dressed for this, and they found this man passed away laying in the middle of a field about a half mile away. So that wandering away, you could do that wandering away from your home, you could do that wandering away from a senior care community that doesn't have the proper safety mechanisms to notify staff or people when you've walked away, right? There are too many stories like that. That is a major safety issue. , malnutrition and dehydration. ,, that's you're just not able to take care of yourself, and , and that's showing up with , some health issues because of malnutrition, dehydration, unsanitary living conditions just due to the inability to keep things up anymore. , injured at home, frequent falls, frequent hospitalizations. I get calls all the time. Steve, yeah, it's time to work with you to find a place for our dad. ,, he has fallen several times. He's been hospitalized four times in the last three months. And I'm like, oh my gosh. Obviously, this is not working, and ,, we have these injuries at home. And then we're we're able to find a great senior care community , to help these folks out because living at home is just not safe any longer. ,, not taking your medications on time or at all, that one flies under the radar. That's a huge safety issue. And then, of course, the more obvious one elder financial abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, all of those things , should trigger the conversation of considering moving from your home to a senior care community. And coming up, I am going to continue with that discussion on when to consider moving from home to a senior care community.

Speaker 1 32:42

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Speaker 3 33:01

Welcome back. You're listening to Senior Care Live on the Senior Care Broadcasting Network. Have a question? Visit SeniorCareLive.com. All right, back to the topic of when to consider moving from your home to a senior care community. So first of all, we talked about, you know, if it if there's a safety issue at home. I gave several examples. , in one, you know, pretty terrible, pretty negative, but I don't mind talking about those things. I hate that I they're available to talk about, right? But those things, , people passing away from just from different things like that, this is way more common than you might think. It doesn't hit the front page news. It's not on the nightly news that night or the next morning. , it's just, it's a terrible tragedy. So that's number one. All right. Number two, a close number two, maybe even a 1A, and this is a serious matter, when the caregivers' health and well-being are in decline. That should trigger the conversation of considering moving from your home to a senior care community, ,, mental health, emotional health, spiritual health, and of course your physical health. ,, when we are caregivers, and men and women, we're both guilty of this. The men were the heroic caregiver. Oh, I got it. I can do this. Even when we can't. We're too stubborn and prideful to admit maybe we need a little bit of help. That's one of our problems. But , what do we do? And what but women do this too, okay? So we place our own needs on the back burner because we love this person so much and we are so committed to them and dedicated to being the best caregiver that could ever be. Well, I'll just I'm supposed to have my annual checkup with my doctor, but ,, you know, that's coming up in June. But I don't really I just don't have time. I cannot leave, you know, my spouse, and so I'm just going to put that off. And then you put it off, and another year rolls by. Another couple of years roll by, and all of a sudden, maybe something's going on that could have been caught early, but now it didn't get caught early because you put it off. You're placing yourself at major risk there. Okay, and then , some other like , I mentioned the doctor's appointments, you know, eye doctors, dental appointments, all those sort of things. We skip social events, , the donuts with the guys down on Friday morning in the coffee, ,, the book clubs, ,, other kind of gatherings, going to church, all the things we just we back out of. And what happens is your whole world just starts shrinking. And you the stress level just become just becomes unbearable at some point. Now, if you are the adult son or daughter, the adult child of parents and you see this happening, you're going to have to step in. And I just can't sugarcoat it. It's not going to be it's not going to be easy, it's not going to be comfortable. You're going to have to step in. You're going to have to say something. This is , this is a moment, not all the time, but sometimes this this is something that calls for tough love. And what I see most commonly is you have the 80-year-old spouse caring for the 80-year-old spouse. And now the caregiver spouse is being crushed, and I mean crushed by the stress and the pressure and not going to their own doctor's appointments and withdrawing from social activities. And now you have two people declining, and stress is a powerful force. I explained this story in detail recently, so I won't go into all the gory detail, but I have known of spouses who pass away unexpectedly, strokes, heart attacks, all the things, unexpectedly, because they were being crushed by that stress. And now they've completely defeated the purpose. They're not here to look after and care for this person they loved so much. It is totally avoidable. But sometimes, as the adult children, sometimes we may have to step in to make that happen. All right. So that's just a huge, huge warning for everyone. All right, number three. When the cost of all these services coming into your home to allow you to stay in your home, maybe those costs just become too expensive for the lawn mowing and the landscaping and , and like you know, Ben had mentioned earlier, you know, cleaning out the gutters and all the things. , and then and then home care comes in. And you know me, I'm a huge, huge fan of home care. I've referred a lot of my clients and people I meet to JC Pfeister with seniors helping seniors, KC Metro South. He and his team are absolutely fantastic. But if the need increases to where you're looking at 24-hour care, it may become too expensive. And it may make more sense to consider moving maybe to an assisted living community or long-term care, or you may need memory care, et cetera. So it could be a financially driven decision that could trigger that conversation of considering moving from your home to a senior care community. And last but not least, when the care that you provide is just not enough, you know, why not consider changing your role from that caregiver, that hands-on caregiver, to the care manager or the care advocate? Meaning, together we can go out, we can find , the best senior care community possible, and let their professional staff provide that hands-on care, the mealtime mess, the struggle with the showers, the j all the stuff. And you can go back to your original role as the loving spouse, the loving son, the loving daughter. In my case, for my grandparents, the loving grandson. Right? And let the professionals take over the care part of it. , at some point, at some point, that may make sense. So if you've decided, okay, you got my attention, Steve, now what do I do? All right, so we need to move. I did a Google search and it came up with two million results. What am I supposed to do with that? I would invite you to reach out to my firm, Senior Care Consulting, at 913-945-2800. 913-945-2800. We help families all across the Kansas City metro area. And yes, we have helped families out of town and out of state. ,, sometimes we are able to do that. , obviously, the majority of our clients are here in the what I would describe as the extended Kansas City metro area. And we can just take, well, we can take that one right off your plate, and we can conduct a geriatric care assessment to determine exactly what we need. Research the entire marketplace to identify our top options, and then we set up a time for , for you and I, or you and ,, you know, someone from our company to go out and , and take a tour of each one of these places. We ask really good questions at each place on your behalf. These are questions that most of our clients, frankly, would not even know to ask. I'm a former nursing home administrator and assisted living executive director, so I think I look at this differently than most than most people out there, frankly. Okay, that entire process of going out and looking at the places, that search and selection process, takes about four or five hours, and you're done. Average family spends 50 to 100 hours running around trying to do all this stuff. And then we produce a report for you loaded with critical information so that you can make an informed decision and move forward with confidence, senior careconsulting.com or 913-945-2800. I'm Steve Kiker and I wish you grace and peace. May God bless you and your family on this day and always. Join me next week, right here on Senior Care Life.