045 - How property adaptations can lead to long term tenants with Carole Smyth
In this episode Carole Smyth shares her experience as an occupational therapist, she explains how occupational therapists are important to supported living schemes, discusses adaptations to property and why she believes older people are an important group of tenants that landlords can often overlook.
Carole has spent most of her working life as a community Occupational Therapist in London, in a local authority setting, alongside social care practitioners and surveyors. Her role was to work with people with long term and complex disabilities, finding ways to help them to remain independent or cared for at home. She really enjoyed combining my medical knowledge with problem solving skills and very quickly began to specialise in equipment provision and major adaptions. In 1996 she become an independent Occupational Therapist and started her own company, Calido Occupational Therapy services, primarily helping local councils and housing associations to reduce their waiting lists for assessments and service provision. This gave her an opportunity to develop my interest in housing for disabled people and twice found myself working within housing departments special needs teams.
More recently, in 2018, having moved to Exeter she was able to develop a long held idea to help older and less able people reach their future potential by either moving to a suitable home or adapting their current home to suit their long-term needs. As a result, she set up Moving Together Devon CIC, to help people with all aspects of the moving process whether they want to move to a care home, retirement scheme or live independently, either through buying or renting.
https://www.movingtogetherdevon.co.uk
Carole Smyth
Director/Occupational Therapist
Moving Together Devon CIC
01392 273067
07931892431
https://www.rcot.co.uk/about-occupational-therapy/find-occupational-therapist
https://www.disabledliving.co.uk
https://www.foundations.uk.com
https://www.nrla.org.uk/campaigns/adaptations
Lisa Brown became a property investor after a long nursing career. She initially developed heritage properties and then a chance encounter led her to discover supported living. She realized this was a powerful way to invest in property while creating homes for people with a support need.
Lisa set about discovering why property investors struggle to let their properties to supported living providers and why providers struggle to find property to let. She has been educating people, raising awareness and working on solutions to this problem ever since. Lisa is the host of the Supported Living Property Podcast and YouTube channel and formed The Supported Living Property Facebook Group.
Lisa is founder of The Supported Living Property Network, a place for property investors and supported living providers to connect, build relationships and communicate about property they have available and/or need. Membership includes access to training courses, monthly training events and networking events and access to The Supported Living Property Network Conference.
To find out how you can join The Supported Living Property Network please follow this link: https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/the-supported-living-property-network
Lisa has written a free guide for you:
If you are a property investor download this free guide to help you find providers to lease your property: https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-property-investors
If you are a provider who is looking for property to lease then download this free guide to help you find property: https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-providers
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