Most families navigate a parent's move to assisted living without a roadmap. They make decisions they didn't know were connected. They skip steps that cost them later. They have the wrong conversation at the wrong time — or they never have it at all until a hospital discharge forces the issue in 72 hours.
Senior Move Roadmap exists to change that. Eight free guides covering every stage of the transition, plus a growing library of resources for the legal, financial, and planning decisions that surround it. Written plainly. No signup required. Free to use and share.
My name is Dan Stine. I'm a licensed Texas real estate agent, an investor with 40+ homes purchased, and someone who has spent nearly two decades watching families arrive at the real estate decision already in crisis.
I've seen what the absence of a roadmap costs. Families who made financial decisions in the wrong order. Families who didn't know about VA benefits until the home was already sold. Families managing a 72-hour hospital discharge with no plan, no power of attorney, and a house full of 40 years of belongings nobody knows what to do with.
My wife is a physician. She comes home and tells me about her patients — accomplished women in their 40s and 50s who sit down for a routine appointment and start talking about their mother. Not because they came in for that. Because they have nowhere else to put it.
The same story. Different names. Every time.
"I built Senior Move Roadmap because the information families needed existed — buried across a hundred different websites, written in legal and medical language, fragmented and incomplete. I pulled it together, wrote it plainly, and made it free. No strings."
The guides serve families before they need me. And families who understand the process arrive at every decision — including the real estate decision — better prepared to make it well.
When a family is ready to address the home, most agents have one path. I have three.
Priced and marketed to maximize what the family nets.
Closing in 30 days or less, with no showings, no contingencies, and no delays to the care timeline.
One that expands the buyer pool and allows the seller to close clean without carrying risk. Whether this path is available, and whether it makes sense, depends on a number of factors we'd work through together.
Which of these fits depends on the family's timeline, the property's condition, and what the care plan actually requires. There are a lot of variables that determine both what's available and what's best — and that conversation is always worth having before any decisions are made.
I'm based in Houston and work primarily in the Houston market. If you're outside the area, the guides are built to be useful regardless of where you are. For the real estate side of the transition, I'm happy to connect you with an agent in your market who understands this work.
This is a free family resource. It is not legal, financial, or medical advice. It does not recommend specific communities or facilities. It does not replace the professionals whose expertise your family needs.
What it is: a framework. A roadmap, if you will. A set of guides that helps families understand what they're facing, in what order, and where to get help at each step.
If you're a discharge planner, geriatric care manager, elder law attorney, placement advisor, or any other professional who regularly works with families navigating senior transitions — the guides are yours to use and share with the families you serve. No permission needed. No attribution required.
If you'd like to talk about how we might work together, reach out.
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