The Gift of a New Home

As we all begin the long and involved process of shopping for the Christmas season, we may find ourselves challenged to come up with just the right gift for just the right person on our holiday gift giving list. Should the gifts that you bestow on friends and family this year take the form of electronics, baked goods, handmade tokens of your great and deepest affection, or a new house?

That’s correct, you read it right. If you currently have both the desire and the means to indulge in such a major investment, then the gift of a new home is perhaps the most personal and meaningful gift that you can give anyone on your Christmas list this year, up to and including….

1. Your spouse. If you and your spouse have been looking to relocate, and you know that he/she has a specific type of home in mind, then you might consider purchasing the house just before the holidays—then slipping the front door key inside their Yuletide stocking as it hangs by the fireplace. Or, even better yet, take them for a drive to see some homes that have been brightly decorated for Christmas—including your new place! This is one Christmas that the two of you will never forget!

2. Your children. The gift of a new home just may be the ultimate expression of familial love; and at different times throughout the course of your life, you might find reason or cause to gift your offspring with this life-changing token of your love and devotion. You and your spouse might surprise the kids with the news that you’re about to affect a new and exciting change of scene in your family. Or at a later date, you might buy a home that they themselves will inhabit with their own new and growing family—or perhaps just occupy themselves.

3. Your parents. Often when people reach a certain level of success in life, they may choose to give back to the people who raised and educated them. They may choose even to buy a place for their parents to rest and retire; finding the ultimate was to say “Thank you” for all that Mom and Dad have done for them. And if these precious people in their lives need a little extra care, they might even choose to buy a large house in which the whole family can live. You might as well make it a holiday house!

If you’re looking to give such a wonderful gift in or around Stuart, FL, give me a call.