There's a Lot Sitting Inside That House Besides Furniture.
Selling it, letting go of it, and figuring out what comes next for the people who lived there is rarely just a real estate question. Collective Moves puts a senior real estate specialist, an estate attorney, and a transition navigator on one team, working from a single phone call.
Valerie Van Pelt · Lori Olson · Kelley Novak · Aaron Miller · Jim Whiddon · Johnathan Whiddon
Most Families Assemble This Team Anyway, Just in the Wrong Order
A parent falls, or a diagnosis changes everything, or someone finally says the thing everyone's been thinking privately for months. Suddenly there's a house to deal with, a will that hasn't been touched in a decade, and three siblings trying to agree on a senior living community none of them have actually toured.
Normally, you find each of these people separately: a realtor from a yard sign, an attorney from a search result, a moving company from a flyer on the fridge. Somewhere in the middle of it, you become the one holding all the pieces together, retelling the same story to every new person you call.
Collective Moves exists because holding it all together shouldn't fall on you.
One Conversation Starts All of It
Make the call, and you're not just hiring a real estate agent. You're opening a line to everyone your family is likely to need over the next few months, introduced in the right order, without you managing the handoffs yourself.
SRES® Realtor
A REALTOR® trained specifically in the realities of a senior sale: staging around mobility needs, timing a closing around a care transition, and pricing a home that may not have been appraised in thirty years.
Financial Planning Resources
Referrals to financial professionals who can answer the harder question underneath the sale: does this plan actually fund the next ten years, and what happens if it needs to fund twenty?
Elder Law & Estate Planning
A wills-trusts-and-probate attorney who makes sure the sale of a home doesn't leave a legal tangle behind for whoever inherits what's left.
Senior Living Navigation
Someone who has actually walked the halls of the communities being considered, and can tell a family honestly which ones are worth the drive to tour.
Downsizing, Space Planning & Moving
A plan for decades of belongings: what's sold, what's donated, what's kept, and who in the family gets to decide what. The new place is measured and laid out first, so everything that comes along is known to fit.
Senior Moving
A crew that specializes in moving people who've lived in one place a long time, not just moving boxes, but moving a life with some care.
To provide trusted guidance and resources that empower seniors and their families to make confident decisions for life's next chapter.The Collective Moves Mission
You Manage One Relationship. We Manage the Rest.
This is the same team built over years of community seminars on senior transitions, now available to any family from the first phone call, not only seminar attendees.
Family
No family is handed a stack of business cards and left to figure out the order of operations. Your senior realtor stays on every file from start to finish, bringing in each specialist only when the timeline actually calls for them.
I recently sold my home with the help of Valerie Van Pelt. I was particularly impressed with her marketing skills. My home was a unique architectural property at a significant price point and demanded the right representation. She took great care staging it and creating a plan that reached the right buyers. My home had multiple offers on the day of our open house and sold well above the listing price.
Peter, home seller & repeat buyer
"We followed Valerie's lead on preparation before it hit the market. She suggested a pre-inspection, which was invaluable. We sold on the first day for the price we wanted, and received another full-price offer the second day."
"Valerie demonstrated patience and knowledge as we searched for a retirement home. Her negotiation skill was beneficial in purchasing our new home and selling our current one. She made the experience far less stressful."
The First Call Is Just a Conversation
No pressure, no obligation, no packet of forms to fill out first. Tell us what's going on: the house, the timeline, the family situation. We'll tell you honestly who on the team needs to be involved, and when.
Every message is read personally, never a call center.