Getting ahead of the curve: A proactive approach to downsizing leads to a seamless sale in a great market

Gene and Dorothy Lomme person a spacious, appealing ranch with a 3-car store successful 1 of the nicest neighborhoods successful Centennial. The brace are successful bully capable wellness to support enjoying it—but this weekend, they’re putting it connected the marketplace with assistance from their Realtors, The Steller Group.

“The kids are asking, ‘Who’s going to person Christmas?,’” says Dorothy Lomme.

“We emotion it truthful much,” she adds. Nevertheless, the mates started looking astatine status communities 3 years agone and were prompted on erstwhile she took a spill and broke her hip.

The Lommes, joined 65 years, are disconnected to Wind Crest, a elder surviving assemblage successful Highlands Ranch. The brace cautiously studied the options there, taking enactment of the information that portion availabilities successful Wind Crest and different elder communities can’t beryllium taken for granted successful this market—something that’s urged them to determination now, alternatively than wait.

Steller cause Blair Bryant says the marketplace couldn’t beryllium amended for sellers than it looks to beryllium this fall.

“Last weekend, the level of enactment reminded maine of past spring,” Bryant says. The lull that agents had talked astir during midsummer ne'er truly brought thing adjacent to a balanced market, and location inventory successful the Denver country has present dropped beneath a paltry 2,000 disposable homes.

“People are having to vie for homes,” helium adds. That looks each the much competitory successful Mira Vista, the Lommes’ vicinity of conscionable 93 homes, wrapped successful the affluent resources of South Suburban Parks and Recreation, including the play course, Kettle and Medema Parks, on with Lifetime’s immense pool/ fitness/tennis center; each served by well-rated schools including adjacent Newton Middle School with a brand-new campus.

The Lommes’ ranch—four bedrooms, implicit 2,000 sq. feet positive added decorativeness successful the basement—has a unsocial level program by Genesee Company, a smaller well-regarded builder that lone created 5 ranch plans successful the full enclave. Theirs has a precise backstage feel, looking into a wooded gulch betwixt homes; but the location tract is comparatively debased maintenance.

It’s had caller remodeling and needed precise small work, but The Steller Group, experts successful these elder moves, supplied its contractors for immoderate tasks needing to beryllium done—something for which the Lommes are peculiarly grateful, successful a marketplace wherever uncovering immoderate assistance is difficult.

Steller’s Bryant, with loads of acquisition successful these sales, praises the Lommes for their proactive attack to downsizing—doing their probe early, and getting up of the process of decluttering up of the sale.

Their ranch comes connected the marketplace this play astatine $765,000 (Steller tin put a showing astatine 720-443-2804).

Meanwhile, Dorothy Lomme says the mates is grateful they waited until present to move, truthful they were capable to enactment successful their precise backstage surroundings during the tallness of the pandemic.

Steller’s adjacent escaped seminar connected downsizing is acceptable for this Tuesday, Sept. 28, 9:30 to 11 a.m., astatine Southglenn Library. You tin motion up for that, arsenic good arsenic for a 4-part webinar connected downsizing, astatine DenverSeniorSeminars.com.

The quality and editorial staffs of The Denver Post had nary relation successful this post’s preparation.