Notes from Monetizing Home Mods Meeting June 15, 2015

MONETIZING HOME MODIFICATION BUSINESS

JUNE 15, 2015 VIRTUAL MEETING

MEETING NOTES

GUEST SPEAKER - SCOTT ANDERLE

Scott is a physical therapist who owned 13 PT clinics, then founded a business called Specialized Home Design, focused on universal accessible design.  In his journey to modify homes, he became a coordinator and consultant for home modifications.  In his role as a consultant, Scott evaluated homes and made recommendations for home modifications.  In his role as a coordinator, Scott worked with case managers and brought in contractors and architects. 

Scott then invented Comprehensive Home Evaluation Report (CHER) - an online tool for home evaluations.  This is a powerful home evaluation tool that supports information fill-in and embedded pictures and compiles a finished report from the data.  The CHER can be found at: http://www.shdesigns.net/cherreg

(Note from Karen:  Scott’s tool is more comprehensive than Carolyn Sithong’s tool.  Scott’s tool is appropriate for complex home evaluations that need to be very detailed for other professionals and even litigation purposes.  Carolyn’s tool is more appropriate for aging-in-place evaluations where your recommendations are more for lay people and you don’t have large amounts of time to spend.  Both are great tools for their applications.)

Apps for Organization

 

1Password

Raise your hand if you’re sick of trying to remember all of the logins and passwords that have been forced on you over the years. Keep those hands raised if you’d welcome a solution to this problem with open arms. Everyone has their hands raised, right? The founders of AgileBits apparently had their hands raised at one point, too, as their company’s team of developers produced an app (for Android, iOS, Mac, and Windows) that generates unique passwords for all the sites you visit and then remembers them so you can log in with a single tap. Oh, and it keeps them synced across all of your various devices, too.