Introducing Find My Retirement Home
Our first-ever blog!
For our inaugural blog, I though I would take the opportunity to introduce you to my company, Find My Retirement Home (FMRH). I started FMRH in mid-2009, in the depths of the Global Financial Crisis, after being made redundant from my role as fund manager for a listed property management company. I had fully-intended to take advantage of the market turmoil and have a well-deserved year off, however it was not to be!
In between watching lots of TV and fishing, I was doing a little consulting on the side to keep my mind active. I had a client who was a retirement village operator and I was assisting them with some strategic re-positioning. While doing some market research for the client, I thought I would get in touch with a buyer’s agent that specialised in retirement homes to ask some questions around what retirees were looking for when considering the purchase of a retirement home. To my surprise, I couldn’t find one! I was stunned – here was a large and complex sector that appealed to a huge and strongly growing demographic, yet there was no-one providing our seniors with quality, independent advice about their purchase! I guess that was my eureka moment as I thought, “I could do that”! Never one to let a good idea go past, I swung into action and launched “Find My Retirement Home” a couple of months later.
Find My Retirement Home is an independent advisor and buyer’s agent that specialises in retirement living. Our mission is to help retirees get the best deal possible on their retirement home purchase and we do this in two ways – firstly, we work with retirees and/or their families to make an informed decision, to ensure they get a retirement home that is right for them. Secondly, we negotiate the deal or provide the client with information to negotiate the deal themselves to make sure they get a purchase arrangement that is right for them.
Our service ranges from a “Rolls-Royce” full turn-key solution, where we do all of the time-consuming research and analysis into any region in Australia and negotiate the best deal possible on the buyer’s behalf, to an information-only service called the Access Program, where we provide clients with all of the information and tools they need to do the work themselves.
Professional Development
We also provide professional development training to professional advisors such as accountants, solicitors and financial planners, to educate them about the retirement living sector and provide them with the training, tools and resources they need to give advice to their clients about purchasing a retirement home. The training consists of a 90 minute introductory course called “Making SENSE of Retirement Homes” and a further 90 minute course called the “Retirement Home Advice MASTERCLASS”.
These courses are designed to assist professional advisors to develop new advice and revenue streams around the provision of advice to clients needing assistance in purchasing a retirement home.
We also provide professional advisors with membership access to a special website that acts as an information and resource portal to provide them with the information, tools and resources they need to provide advice to their clients.
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Otherwise feel free to give me a call anytime on 1300 425 442 to have a chat!
