I read an interesting slogan Yesterday. It said : You cannot make a great wine if you do not know what a great wine taste like.......Just think about that. There is so much truth in this and this truth can be applied to a few other things.
I am now going to step on some serious toes....and for those of you who know me ...That is what I love to do.......
Take the senior property market for one......As you age beautifully as you planned you need advice on the three things that every single person on earth needs . That is Food , health and Shelter. I am not going to address the first two but let's look at the third one.
For those who can afford it as you grow older Retirement villages and Old age homes are options and without quoting statistics both are equally important.
Retirement units are available for potential occupants in 3 ways. Buying a Property that you are going to be the owner of , Renting a property or Buying into a life rights development.
In most of these potential transactions there are ESTATE AGENTS involved. And this is where my quote of the wine comes in.........
You cannot make a great wine if you do not know what a great wine tastes like. You cannot sell a good retirement property if you do not know what a good retirement unit looks like. And only once you have attained the age to be able to live in such a Retirement village will you be able to properly understand the needs and wants of the elder people living there or wanting to live there.
I know what I am talking about. I have been living in one for the past 5 years and at the young age of 71 I am only now starting to understand exactly what this is all about. I have done some serious research by asking the young agents to explain exactly what I am going to experience when I do buy or rent in such a Village. And the answers are exactly what I expected . They have no cookin clue what it is all about. They are selling brick and mortar and not the experience. How can they make a good wine if they do not know what a good wine tastes like ?
I rest my case............
John Brandow is an Estate Agent SELLING AND RENTING units in the Featherbrooke Hills Retirement Village where he lives. Also new units available in new developments. Enquiries via email to featherbrook@mweb.co.za or call/whatsap 082 222 5002
I am now going to step on some serious toes....and for those of you who know me ...That is what I love to do.......
Take the senior property market for one......As you age beautifully as you planned you need advice on the three things that every single person on earth needs . That is Food , health and Shelter. I am not going to address the first two but let's look at the third one.
For those who can afford it as you grow older Retirement villages and Old age homes are options and without quoting statistics both are equally important.
Retirement units are available for potential occupants in 3 ways. Buying a Property that you are going to be the owner of , Renting a property or Buying into a life rights development.
In most of these potential transactions there are ESTATE AGENTS involved. And this is where my quote of the wine comes in.........
You cannot make a great wine if you do not know what a great wine tastes like. You cannot sell a good retirement property if you do not know what a good retirement unit looks like. And only once you have attained the age to be able to live in such a Retirement village will you be able to properly understand the needs and wants of the elder people living there or wanting to live there.
I know what I am talking about. I have been living in one for the past 5 years and at the young age of 71 I am only now starting to understand exactly what this is all about. I have done some serious research by asking the young agents to explain exactly what I am going to experience when I do buy or rent in such a Village. And the answers are exactly what I expected . They have no cookin clue what it is all about. They are selling brick and mortar and not the experience. How can they make a good wine if they do not know what a good wine tastes like ?
I rest my case............
John Brandow is an Estate Agent SELLING AND RENTING units in the Featherbrooke Hills Retirement Village where he lives. Also new units available in new developments. Enquiries via email to featherbrook@mweb.co.za or call/whatsap 082 222 5002
