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Senior Real Estate Specialist Portland OR | Navigating Senior Home Transitions with SRES® Guidance

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Jenny Quirie Realtor® | Divorce Real Estate Specialist & Senior Real Estate Specialist (SRES®) | Strategic Guidance for Important Life Moves March 5, 2026 Life transitions become more complex as we age. For seniors in the Portland, Oregon area considering a move — whether to downsize, relocate closer to family, or transition into an active adult community or retirement community — the stakes are often higher than they were decades ago. This is not simply a real estate transaction. It is a financial, emotional, and lifestyle shift that deserves thoughtful and specialized guidance. Today's senior population holds a significant portion of our nation's real estate wealth. At the same time, seniors are statistically more vulnerable to financial exploitation, high-pressure sales tactics, and poorly structured transactions. During moments of transition — especiall...
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Rose Festival Fleet Week!

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Oregon & SW Washington Weekend Planner: June 9-11, 2023     PORTLAND:         PORTLAND ROSE FESTIVAL FLEET WEEK The Portland Rose Festival is extremely fortunate to be one of a few U.S. Ports of Call for a courtesy visit from the U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, and Royal Canadian Navy. Their arrival commemorates a relationship with the Navy that has lasted more than 100 years and over 80 years of visiting Portland during the Rose Festival. It is a significant commitment by the Navy to make  Rose Festival Fleet Week  one of the premier Fleet Week events in the country.   PORTLAND IPA FEST Discover Portland's  IPA Fest  at Pine Street Market! Sample 30 regional IPAs, from citrusy West Coast to hazy New England styles. Indulge in delicious food pairings from the Pine Street Market vendors, and celebrate the vibrant beer culture of the Pacific Northwest.     BLOODY MARY FESTIVAL The  Bloody Mary Festival  is much mo...
Location: Portland, OR, USA
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Much Needed Help for Your Not-So-Green Thumb

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Houseplants bring earthy beauty to interiors, but they can quickly show signs of decline if they don’t get the correct amount of sun, nutrients and water. When your favorite plant turns into a droopy, brown mess, where can you turn for help?   Google Play  or  Apple  might not be your first move, but they have excellent apps that can help you choose, care for, and grow healthy beautiful plants. You can use an app to help you save a sickly plant, talk to the app’s team of botanists, and set reminders for watering, fertilizing, pruning and other plant care, advises  HappySprout.com . Download  PlantSnap.com  or  PictureThis  the next time you visit a nursery to help you choose plants that will thrive in your home or garden. Use the app when you’re on a nature hike to help you identify edible plants and keep you from walking into that tangle of poison ivy. Bloomscape’s Vera app  offers a great way to document your plants, customize wat...
Location: Portland, OR, USA
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PORTLAND:   TULIP FESTIVAL Tulip Fest   is here! Our family looks forward to welcoming you to our 39th annual Tulip Festival to experience the beauty and create new memories.  We have millions of beautiful tulips for our guests to enjoy on our family farm. EARTH DAY CELEBRATION Join Portland Fruit Tree Project to celebrate the abundance of our urban canopy this  Earth Day ! This casual family-fun day will be held at beautiful Rossi Farms in the Parkrose neighborhood. This is a day-long event with plant sales, music, games, bounce houses, food and drink, and more. OREGON SYMPHONY Music Director David Danzmayr leads the  Oregon Symphony  with its curious sleigh bells, puckish woodwinds, and a moving finale that imagines a child’s awe-inspiring vision of Heaven. Swedish soprano Camilla Tilling enchants with the “purity of her sound” (Gramophone) in both the Mahler and Osvaldo Golijov’s tender, tragic Three Songs. PORTLAND SATURDAY MARKET Come shop local a...
Location: Newberg, OR 97132, USA
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Oregon & SW Washington Weekend Planner: March 10th-12th, 2023

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    PORTLAND:       ST. PATRICK’S IRISH FESTIVAL Join the Kells family once again for the 2023  Portland Irish Festival . This year we are seeing some big changes and expanding the festival to the Portland waterfront! Come celebrate with Live Music, Irish Dancing, Bagpipes, Vendors, Irish Food and Drinks.​       CIRQUE DU SOLEIL The show contrasts the grand with the intimate, the silly with the tragic, and the beauty of perfection with the appeal of imperfection. It also emphasizes the strength and vulnerability of the clown as well as his knowledge and generosity to represent the aspect of humanity that exists in each of us.  Corteo  is guided through a timeless ceremony in which fantasy teases reality with music, which is both poetic and mischievous.       PAW PATROL LIVE In the latest live-action-adventure spectacle from every kid's favorite cartoon dog squad  Paw Patrol . Ryder and his crew of ever-resourcefu...
Location: Portland, OR, USA
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