Founder · The Senior Home Guide
Meet Amanda Whitespeare: Experience, Compassion & A Vision for Better Housing Decisions
Founder | Real Estate Strategist | Housing Transition & Family Resource Advocate · eXp Realty · Co-Founder, CitySide Properties Group and Team Legacy
Amanda's Story
Helping Families Make Confident Decisions About What Comes Next
Amanda Whitespeare is a Texas real estate entrepreneur, strategist, mentor, and business leader with more than 15 years of experience helping individuals, families, and professionals navigate important real estate decisions.
As co-founder of CitySide Properties Group and Team Legacy at eXp Realty, Amanda has built her career around a simple belief: successful businesses and meaningful lives begin with people. Her experience includes residential sales, relocation, luxury real estate, marketing, negotiation, coaching, and helping agents build successful businesses.
Amanda has spent years mentoring real estate professionals, building professional communities, and connecting people with the resources they need to succeed. But she believes that experience should serve a purpose far beyond the transaction.
Why She Created The Senior Home Guide
For many families, deciding what to do with a longtime home is one of the most emotional and financially significant transitions they will face.
A parent may want to remain independent. Adult children may be concerned about accessibility, affordability, or proximity to family. A couple may be ready to simplify their lifestyle. Sometimes a family needs help understanding what to do with a property after losing someone they love. There is rarely one answer that works for everyone.
Amanda believes families deserve a place where they can explore their options, understand the real estate implications, find helpful resources, and connect with trusted professionals without feeling pressured. Instead of beginning with a property sale, she wants to begin with a conversation about the family's needs, goals, and possibilities.
Because the right next chapter isn't always about moving. Sometimes it's about making a thoughtful decision to stay.
Amanda's mission is to help families move forward with clarity, confidence, dignity, and a plan that supports the life they want to live.
Experience That Extends Beyond Real Estate
Real Estate Expertise
More than 15 years of industry experience across home sales, relocation, property marketing, luxury housing, negotiations, and real estate business operations. Amanda understands the financial and practical considerations of selling a longtime home or purchasing the next one.
Coaching & Mentorship
As a founder of Team Legacy, Amanda helps real estate professionals develop business strategies, strengthen client relationships, improve systems, and grow as leaders — with a people-first approach built on education and collaboration.
Strategic Planning & Consulting
Amanda has experience developing business systems, coordinating professionals, and helping people evaluate complex decisions. Here, she applies that planning mindset to housing transitions, helping families organize their questions and see which resources may help.
A Network of Local Professionals
Through her professional network, Amanda can help connect families with real estate advisors in participating markets. Introductions depend on actual availability, service areas, and qualifications.
How Amanda helps families
Before You Make a Move, Let's Make a Plan.
Whether you're helping your parents decide what comes next, preparing to downsize, selling a longtime family property, or simply planning ahead, you don't have to sort through every option on your own. A housing strategy conversation with Amanda or an appropriate member of the team can help you organize your priorities, understand the real estate considerations, and identify useful next steps.
- Staying in the current home versus selling
- Property value and potential sale proceeds
- Downsizing and lower-maintenance housing
- Relocating closer to adult children
- Evaluating the timing of a move
- Understanding housing budgets and transaction costs
- Preparing a property for sale
- Coordinating family conversations
- Finding a suitable local real estate advisor
- Identifying resources outside of real estate
When the People Who Took Care of You Need a Little Help Navigating What's Next.
Helping an aging parent make housing decisions can bring up important questions and difficult emotions. You may be balancing your parents' wishes with their financial circumstances, current living arrangements, and the realities of providing support from another city. The Senior Home Guide helps families understand their options before they make a major decision — always respecting a parent's independence and preferences.
- How to start a housing conversation with an aging parent
- What to consider before selling a parent's home
- How to compare downsizing and aging in place
- How to estimate the costs of maintaining a home
- How to approach selling an inherited property
- How to prepare for a move after decades in one house
- How to coordinate housing decisions among siblings
- What questions to ask independent or assisted living providers
- How to plan a long-distance move for a parent
Want a printable checklist? Use the roadmap below and print your plan.
Your Family's Next Chapter: A Step-by-Step Guide
Stage 1 of 6
Understand Your Needs
Clarify priorities, lifestyle, finances, preferred location and goals for the future.
Stage 1: Understand Your Needs
- ☐ What matters most in the next five years?
- ☐ What does the monthly budget allow?
- ☐ Where do we want to live, and near whom?
Dates / who is responsible: ______________________
Stage 2: Explore Your Options
- ☐ List two or three options worth comparing
- ☐ Visit or research each option
Dates / who is responsible: ______________________
Stage 3: Understand Your Real Estate Position
- ☐ Get an estimate of the home's market value
- ☐ Estimate selling and moving costs
- ☐ Compare yearly upkeep of staying vs. moving
Dates / who is responsible: ______________________
Stage 4: Build Your Support Team
- ☐ Which professionals do we need?
- ☐ Who has legal authority to sign, if needed?
Dates / who is responsible: ______________________
Stage 5: Create a Personalized Plan
- ☐ Priority #1, #2, #3
- ☐ Tentative dates
- ☐ Who is responsible for each step
Dates / who is responsible: ______________________
Stage 6: Move Forward With Confidence
- ☐ Schedule a strategy session or ask a question
Dates / who is responsible: ______________________
Local Expertise. A Shared Commitment to Helping Families.
The Senior Home Guide connects families with real estate professionals familiar with their local housing market. Amanda leads the development of our participating advisor network. We're growing market by market — and we'll tell you honestly when we don't have a local advisor yet.
Meet Amanda Whitespeare | Houston
Real estate professional with eXp Realty · Houston & Texas
Serving Houston
Explore housing decisions, plan for a future move, or simply ask questions about what's next.
Meet Petra Davis | East Texas
Real estate professional with eXp Realty · Marshall and surrounding East Texas communities
Explore housing decisions, plan for a future move, or simply ask questions about what's next.
Meet Philip Henderson | Forney / East Dallas
Real estate professional with eXp Realty, LLC · Forney, Kaufman County & East Dallas
Serving Forney, Terrell, Crandall, Rockwall, Mesquite, Garland and nearby
Explore housing decisions, plan for a future move, or simply ask questions about what's next.
Meet Suzanne Eldridge Gore | Fort Worth / North Texas
Real estate professional with eXp Realty, LLC · Fort Worth & North Texas
Serving Fort Worth, Azle, Haslet, Keller, Weatherford, Dallas and nearby
Explore housing decisions, plan for a future move, or simply ask questions about what's next.
Have Questions About Your Next Chapter? Ask Amanda.
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The Senior Home Guide provides housing education and connections, not medical, legal, financial or licensed senior care advice.