Dear FancyFondue:

I am glad you are glad that you found this site, good to have you here!

Downsizing is an option to keep in mind then, depending on the real estate market situation in your area, it might be profitable, to sell at the right time.

Regarding your father, him not wanting someone else to take care of him, being stubborn that way, you .. don’t have to accommodate his stubbornness, you can be stubborn too, better use the word assertive. Who knows, he may  like it if someone else takes care of him, he just doesn’t know it yet, or he may like to live in a retirement home.

Doesn’t he prefer to not burden his own daughter?

anita