Each August the Realtor’s Resource for Seniors committee is responsible for the program at the monthly luncheon meeting of the Berkeley Association of Realtors. The Realtor’s Resource for Seniors is the committee that Judy Boe and I started about two years ago to educate ourselves and other realtors about the special needs of senior [...]
It is official. Today (July 12, 2010) Ashby Village is open for business! After years of hard work, it is actually a realty. Judy Boe and I have only been working for about two years, but others, notably Shirley Haberfeld, Pat Sussman and Jane Selby started years earlier. The launching of Ashby Village represents [...]
A few weeks ago, my friends Judy Boe and Shirley Haberfeld and I had lunch with Jill Gilbert. We wanted to tell Jill all about Ashby Village and she wanted to tell us about Gilbert Guide’s new endeavor-The Daily Wrinkle. In addition to the Monthly Gilbert Guide and Weekly Insider e-newsletters, there is now [...]
The second Ashby Village Community Meeting will be held next Thursday, September 24 at 7:00 p.m. at Lifelong Medical Care, 2031 6th Street in Berkeley. Lifelong is one block south of University Avenue and the entrance is on Addison Street. This is a very good opportunity to find out about this valuable program which will [...]
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A few weeks ago, my friend Peggy and I were on our afternoon walk and she was bemoaning the fact that she would be 65 in a few weeks. She had received some information from Social Security and was trying to figure out what she was going to do about Medicare and all of [...]
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Following is an article by Ashby Village Board Members, Shirley Haberfeld and Pat Sussman. It is scheduled for publication in Persimmon, an on-line literary magazine for women.
Do you remember that first phone call from your eldest sister? “What are we going to do about Mom - she doesn’t want any help and she [...]
One of the reasons that we have such good resources for seniors in the East Bay is the School of Social Work Resource Center on Aging at UC Berkeley. They have always been on the forefront of addressing senior issues and have trained many geriatric social workers in the area. Diane Driver’s monthly e-newsletter, [...]
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Ashby Village:
Ashby Village has scheduled two more house parties. The first will be on May 17th at 2717 Hillegass and the second on May 24th at 1711 9th Street. Both locations are in Berkeley and both will start at 2:00 pm. People should RSVP to Shirley Haberfeld at shaberfeld@ashbyvillage.com if they want to attend. [...]
There is a new reverse mortgage program for senior which became available in January as part of the financial stimulus package which Congress passed last fall. This program is called HECM for Purchase. HECM stands for Home Equity Conversion Mortgage. This program enables seniors to purchase new homes and never make another mortgage payment.
Borrowers [...]
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About a year ago my friend Judy Boe, also a Seniors Real Estate Specialist at Red Oak Realty here in Berkeley, and I read about a program in Boston that helped seniors stay in their own homes as they grew older. The program is called Beacon Hill Village and had been established by people [...]
