"After working with so many families over the past several years who were navigating the maze of senior living options, I can tell you just how much hard work it takes to be a caregiver."
Over the past twenty years, I've had the profound privilege of guiding countless families through downsizing, aging in place, exploring senior living options, and the sensitive journey of managing a loved one’s estate. This experience has deepened my compassion and understanding for these unique challenges.
My experience helped me when I had to sell my parents home in 2020 after losing my step-dad and searching for Memory Care for my own mother. This experience has deepened my compassion and understanding for these unique challenges. Witnessing the emotional and logistical hurdles firsthand, my approach is about weaving compassion and understanding into every step, ensuring life’s significant transitions are met with care and dignity. With a network of trusted resources, I am here to ease this process, support families in making informed decisions, and manage transitions with respect.
Together, we'll honor your loved one's legacy and start a new chapter with grace.
Transitioning into the golden years of life brings about a new set of considerations, especially when it comes to living arrangements. Whether the goal is to downsize to a more manageable space or to upsize for a lifestyle that includes room for family, hobbies, or care, seniors focused real estate services are here to guide you through every step.
Our Agents at Valerie Upham Team offers you a unique perspective to help sell the family home as quickly as possible to make moving easier.
With Valerie and her staff having worked directly with seniors in Real estate industry, we are exceptionally well-positioned to understand the needs of seniors and families during a transition. We work to make the process as easy as possible for everyone involved while getting the home to market and sold in a timely fashion.
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Father moved to memory care housing and you wouldn't believe what the Valerie Upham Realtor® did.
Many seniors opt to downsize to simplify their lifestyle, reduce maintenance responsibilities, and possibly to free up equity for retirement living. Downsizing doesn't just mean moving to a smaller space; it's about finding the right home that supports your current and future needs, ensuring accessibility, comfort, and convenience. Our expertise lies in understanding these unique requirements and matching you with properties that fit your vision of a carefree, yet fully engaged retirement life.
When it comes to real estate for seniors, upsizing isn't just about more space—it's about enhancing comfort, accessibility, and lifestyle. Tailored homes with easy access, safety features, and room for family visits are in focus, ensuring a serene and fulfilling living experience in one's golden years.
No matter if the home or condo is worth $50,000 or $1,000,000, we use our considerable contacts with agents in our area to make sure it receives the quick attention of those with buyers looking for this type of property.
Our service is perfect for those who have loved ones at a distance or have busy lives and need help managing all aspects of the transition and sales process.
We have a network of qualified elder law attorneys to whom we can refer any questions or needs.
Not sure if now's the right time to buy or sell? Need a reliable contractor? We'd love to get to know more about you and your needs! Feel free to use any of the options here to get in contact with us!
Valerie and her team have assisted hundreds of clients to reach their real estate goals. With fierce negotiation skills and extensive knowledge of the San Diego real estate market, they demonstrate a solid proficiency in handling every stage of the process.
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to
