The current investment boom is in retirement living.

The current investment boom is in retirement living. Yes/No?

  • Yes

    Votes: 1 33.3%

  • No

    Votes: 2 66.7%
  • Total voters
    3
HarmonyatMysore

HarmonyatMysore

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When buying or renting in a retirement community, monthly fees often cover homeowner maintenance. Every community will differ, but these fees can cover everything from housekeeping to exterior yard-work. Having outdoor space, but not having to maintain it, is attractive to this aging population. What's your take on it?
 

Other than it being far, far, FAR, to expensive for me, I guess it is good. Some of our friends are extremely happy in their Senior Community, others absolutely hate it and regret their decision. Guess it is all up to each individual. Like everything in life, you can please some of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time 😊
 
I would love to live in a senior community although right now I live in the poor mans version of a senior community. A community with older houses owned mostly by people who have lived in the area for 40 plus years and are aging in place. Huddled in our money pit houses waiting for the pandemic to pass.

I wonder if we should all add a cross of lambs blood on the door. (No insult meant to anyone of any religion.)

I shouldn’t think retirement communities would be a good investment, all us old people are expected to die of COVID-19. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣
 

After talking to a lot of people, I'm more and more of the opinion that if you live long enough, and espec. if you're female with no kids (or any willing/able to help you), you should rent the place you live in. Single, elderly females with no family appear to be the most attractive target for unscrupulous repair people; so if you live long enough, you need to own as few things (roof, refrigerator, etc.) as possible that will need expensive, complicated repair.
 
HarmonyatMysore said:
When buying or renting in a retirement community, monthly fees often cover homeowner maintenance. Every community will differ, but these fees can cover everything from housekeeping to exterior yard-work. Having outdoor space, but not having to maintain it, is attractive to this aging population. What's your take on it?
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I see that "Harmony" is a retirement living corporation. Are you here to sell something?
 
officerripley said:
I agree about that being heaven, I am so tired of the domestic stuff.

What is your living situation that it's hellish, if you don't mind me asking, jujube?
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Oh, just the usual: "What are we having for dinner tonight?" "Well, what do you want for dinner tonight?" "I don't know....what do YOU want for dinner tonight?" "I decided last night, you decide tonight." ad nauseum. AND then, and here's that afore-mentioned Ring of Hell, when we DO decide what we're going to have, *I* have to cook it. AND clean up afterward. I just want to go down to a nice dining room and have someone slap a plate of something in front of me. I'm not a picky eater, I'm just a picky fixer.

My dream is to live on a perpetual cruise. Twelve meals a day and if I get hungry at 2 a.m. and can't wait until 5 a.m. for the Continental Breakfast,, I can tip someone to come to my cabin and stuff a fruit plate down my throat. Little elves who come into my cabin and spiffy it up as soon as I leave. No cooking, no dishwashing, no dusting, no sweeping, no.....

I want to be able to hang that sign on the kitchen door: "KITCHEN IS CLOSED BECAUSE OF ILLNESS....COOK IS SICK OF COOKING."
 
jujube said:
Oh, just the usual: "What are we having for dinner tonight?" "Well, what do you want for dinner tonight?" "I don't know....what do YOU want for dinner tonight?" "I decided last night, you decide tonight." ad nauseum. AND then, and here's that afore-mentioned Ring of Hell, when we DO decide what we're going to have, *I* have to cook it. AND clean up afterward. I just want to go down to a nice dining room and have someone slap a plate of something in front of me. I'm not a picky eater, I'm just a picky fixer.

My dream is to live on a perpetual cruise. Twelve meals a day and if I get hungry at 2 a.m. and can't wait until 5 a.m. for the Continental Breakfast,, I can tip someone to come to my cabin and stuff a fruit plate down my throat. Little elves who come into my cabin and spiffy it up as soon as I leave. No cooking, no dishwashing, no dusting, no sweeping, no.....

I want to be able to hang that sign on the kitchen door: "KITCHEN IS CLOSED BECAUSE OF ILLNESS....COOK IS SICK OF COOKING."
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Oh wow wow wow, you are quoting what's in my mind! And you know what else I'm sick of, doing the darn laundry, and paying the bills, and balancing the too-many check books we've got. So tired of it.
 
jujube said:
Oh, just the usual: "What are we having for dinner tonight?" "Well, what do you want for dinner tonight?" "I don't know....what do YOU want for dinner tonight?" "I decided last night, you decide tonight." ad nauseum. AND then, and here's that afore-mentioned Ring of Hell, when we DO decide what we're going to have, *I* have to cook it. AND clean up afterward. I just want to go down to a nice dining room and have someone slap a plate of something in front of me. I'm not a picky eater, I'm just a picky fixer.
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Whoa

An here my poor lady is ecstatic in having a kitchen
....and not having to haul water, or cook on a wood stove top
or scrub laundry by hand

I knew living in an off grid mountain cabin for five years would reap rewards

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Gary O' said:
Whoa

An here my poor lady is ecstatic in having a kitchen
....and not having to haul water, or cook on a wood stove top
or scrub laundry by hand

I knew living in an off grid mountain cabin for five years would reap rewards

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Yeah, I should be grateful, I know. When we used to get back home in October after being on the road for 4-5 months, I'd be overjoyed to have a full-sized stove and oven, and a large refrigerator, and lots of counter space and my own washer and dryer out in the garage. Unfortunately, the gratitude wears off rather quickly and it's back to the old woe is me..... I'm an ungrateful wretch.
 
jujube said:
Yeah, I should be grateful, I know. When we used to get back home in October after being on the road for 4-5 months, I'd be overjoyed to have a full-sized stove and oven, and a large refrigerator, and lots of counter space and my own washer and dryer out in the garage. Unfortunately, the gratitude wears off rather quickly and it's back to the old woe is me..... I'm an ungrateful wretch.
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Naw, I doubt you're an ungrateful wretch, just sound tired to me; I know I am.
 

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