96-Year-Old Sells House. When She Opens Door Buyers Freak Out

29.Ready to move on and move out

As hard as it was for Joyce to say good bye to her house, at 96-years-old she was ready to move into an assisted living facility. Joyce was still as sharp as a tack, but even with all her faculties about her, she conceded it was time for something smaller, and simple.

The special attention she had taken in maintaining the house for over seventy years, in all of its 50s and 60s glory had at long last begun to feel a bit too taxing for someone so far along in life. Maintaining such a special house would have to be someone else’s job.