AIM BIG Meeting-January 25th on Developing Distributorships

This meeting for me was really exciting.  I am working on developing www.essenlux.com to serve a portal for those of us in home modification businesses to use to make recommendations for products and to make money off the recommendations we make...stay tuned.

If you have any interesting products you want to put on the site contact me at:  Service@functionalhomes.net.

Total Home Access Solutions: Grab Bars - Top 5 things to know

AIM BIG Meeting Jan. 4- OT's working with Builders Pilot with Special Guests

This was one spectacular meeting, I know I learned a lot.  Thank you so very much to all our special guests and group members for being a part of this meeting.  Feel the blessings. 

Together we can grow exponentially!!

Pilot program for OTs working with Builders-December 21st AIM BIG Meeting

This meeting centered on developing a pilot program for occupational therapists working with builders, the first of hopefully many discussions, below is the video and below that is a summary.

This meeting focused on defining a pilot for working with builders.

Occupational Therapists working with Builders on Home Modifications

I am often asked what is the best way for occupational therapists to work with builders.  I'm not sure of what works for everyone but I can tell you what works for me and what I've heard from other OTs that are working with builders.  Of course every OT that has answered this question will have a different point of view.

I started my company Functional Homes, Inc. as a construction company.  I was a single mom of three and was looking for a business opportunity to bring in additional income to allow me to take my children traveling.  I was also a competitive sailor.  One of the other crew members on the sailboat owned a construction company and was renting wheelchair ramps which was quite lucrative.  We started talking and he told me he'd give me 25% of the take of every wheelchair ramp job I brought in.  At the time I thought, well I know plenty of people with handicaps so I started referring clients to him.  After a while he got a job remodeling a home for accessibility but did not know how to make a home accessible,  So we agreed on a 25/75 split and I did the design, chose the materials, and hired a few subcontractors and he did the construction.

AIM BIG Meeting on October 19th with Susy Stark on Home Modifications, Billing, and Evaluations

Great meeting with Susy Stark from Washington University

AIM BIG-Business Plan Development Meeting for OT Home Mod Business Part 1

We are beginning work on our business plans, we are in the incubation phase right now.  Here is our last meeting recording.