Posted on 01/20/2020 7:34:05 AM PST by oh8eleven
64-year-old Terry Robison is a working-class retiree trying to make his money last throughout the remainder of his life. And Holiday Inn is the clear winner.
That’s according to a Facebook post from Robison in which he evaluated the per-day cost of staying in a retirement home for seniors and the daily cost of staying at a Holiday Inn. Robison found out that when applying the senior discount he qualifies for, the Holiday Inn would cost less than $60 per day. The senior home, on the other hand, cost around $188 per day, making it more than three times more expensive than the hotel chain.
“That leaves $128.77 a day for lunch and dinner in any restaurant we want, or room service, laundry, gratuities and special TV movies. Plus, they provide a spa, swimming pool, a workout room, a lounge and washer-dryer, etc. Most have free toothpaste and razors, and all have free shampoo and soap. $5-worth of tips a day and you’ll have the entire staff scrambling to help you,” Robison wrote in a Facebook post. “They treat you like a customer, not a patient.”
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My brother visited me one time and stayed at the local Marriott for free, then up to Portland, ME for free, Boston for free and Newport, RI for free. He flew roundtrip on AA for free and his rental car was free.
In that first few years of his job he visited every state except Hawaii and North Dakota. He even went to San Juan, PR once for a week.
He was a bank mortgage auditor for Fannie Mae.
Don’t make your kids go through this. My mom lived four hours away. After multiple times falling and breaking stuff, I was spending almost 200 days a year up there taking care of her. She had great insurance and a decent income. But she didn’t want to move.
Finally she broke her shoulder. I have to go up to the hospital. They discharge her. I am going to have to stay three more weeks. This time my wife went instead.
In three weeks we have her moved into a wonderful assisted living apartment. She could afford it, and it was ten minutes from Our house.
I wasted almost three years of the most productive of my life because she was stubborn.
If you don’t want to be a burden...then don’t. Spend your money. You ain’t taking it with you. And your kids don’t want to bathe you and wipe your ass.
When I left my job at a large bank, traveling about 85-100 nights a year...I had about 750,000 Marriott points. It look me almost 15 years to go through them all. It was great.
lol you have a point!
Who moves into a retirement home at age 64?
One burrito and the toilet schedule for visiting angles is blown all to hell.
At a dollar subtracted, 90% would end up owing me. All I ask is to get my order within 15 minutes, leave me alone and put the check on the table within 3 minutes of me finishing. Somehow, they can never do that. That’s just one reason I refuse to eat out.
I have better things to do (even if it’s sitting on the couch twiddling my thumbs) than to get dressed, decide on where to eat, drive, find a parking place, find a table, wonder where all the waiter has body piercing and when the last time he washed his hands, waste an hour or two just to get through a meal and all the while someone’s kid is screaming and people think the entire restaurant needs to hear their conversations, paying for a meal I could make muuuuuch better at home and waaaaaaay cheaper and then drive home.
I know.. I was talking about the state administered medicaid program for the indigent elderly. Once they’ve spent down all their money they basically become a ward of the state. In my mother’s case, as an Arizona resident she was eligible for ALTCS....Arizona Long Term Care System. I took care of getting her all set up and I must say it was a very well run and minimally painful process so kudos to AZ. The only hitch is finding a facility that is willing to accept the lower rates paid. The “better” places generally don’t. I was lucky with my mother because she was already in a quite decent place that did accept ALTCS residents.
Sounds like there is no Prop 13 there that limits property taxes like California.
“...At a dollar subtracted, 90% would end up owing me. ...”
Like I said, I joke with the kids about it.
I figure a 5 buck tip is enough if the service isn’t great. Otherwise I do the 18%, or a little more if they’re extra good.
I am sure that for $1,800/month, even when adding in utilities, CATV, and $200/mo to have someone come in to clean twice a month, you could find an apartment at least as large as the size of an average $60 per night Holiday Inn room.
The only exceptions would be Manhattan, NY, San Francisco, CA, and a few other expensive downtown areas.
But then you're not going to find a hotel room for $60/night in those places, either!
There’s always exceptions.
Might be Idaho. Nicer people then L.A. or SoCal in general.
Still depends on the owners, who can be out of state or just some shlock corporation skinnin’ the rubes when they’re older.
Curmudgeon...I like that. I’ll label myself a deplorable curmudgeon.
At some point, regular "assisted living" facility owners would complain to regulators that the motel was running an unlicensed nursing home.
$1,800... I think I’ll look up the local charges in my area.
LOL
It’ll give me something to do and I’ll feel better knowing the numbers.
I definitely concede your estimation on the Blue states. Thinking it’s going to be high in the Blue cities in the Red states as well.
:)
$1,800... I think I’ll look up the local charges in my area.
LOL
It’ll give me something to do and I’ll feel better knowing the numbers.
I heard Texas has some horribly high property taxes.
Thanks. That’s quite a deal.
I know...I went through the whole thing with my mother from about 2009 to 2016. The big break came when she ran out of money and got on the state (AZ) medicaid roles.
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