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♿ Miami-Dade Disability & Autism Newsletter 🧩
Good morning, my fellow Miamians 🦩
Miami-Dade County honored Memorial Day weekend the way this country deserves to be honored, with family, with gratitude, and with the kind of heat only Miami can deliver.
Now let's get back to what we do every week, not just the weeks with a holiday attached. Our kids and our community are counting on us.
— Victor Antunez
Real Estate Professional 🧩 Autism Dadvocate
PS. If buying or selling a home has been on your mind lately, and you want to talk it through, feel free to text me anytime at (305) 401-6224 🔑
Today's Edition Includes:
- Best Buddies Travel: Explore the world, while building independence, confidence, and lifelong friendships.
- Monday Housing Q&A for Special Needs Families: Q: We don't have a housing plan. How do we know if we need one?
- Disability News Headlines: Stories that deserve our attention
- This Week’s Inclusive Events Calendar: Programs and gatherings for the disability community
- Hometown Heroes: If you work as a BCBA, RBT, therapist, or in any healthcare role at a PPEC, autism center, or school, there's a Florida program that can put up to $35,000 toward your down payment and closing costs.
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Welcome to Miami 🏖️ Bienvenidos a Miami
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Best Buddies Travel 🤘
Travel With Purpose. Inclusion Without Limits.
Best Buddies Travel is an inclusive, staff-led program that brings people with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) together to explore the world, while building independence, confidence, and lifelong friendships.
Upcoming Trips ✈️
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🏠 Monday Housing Q&A for Special Needs Families
Q: We don’t have a housing plan. How do we know if we need one?
A: If you’re raising a child with special needs, you need one.
That’s the whole answer, but here’s why it matters. Most families don’t think about a housing plan until something forces them to, a diagnosis gets more complex, a landlord sells the building, a parent gets sick, a sibling stops being able to help. By the time the forcing event arrives, the options that existed 2 years earlier are gone. The programs have waitlists. The equity that could have funded a move got spent on other things. The window closed while the family was busy surviving.
A housing plan isn’t a legal document or a financial model. It’s a set of answered questions. Where does your child live if something happens to you tomorrow? Is the home you’re in now set up for who your child is becoming, not just who they are today? If you own, does the equity you’ve built have a job to do, and do you know what that job is? If you rent, what’s the actual cost of staying in a home someone else controls?
Most families can’t answer those questions on the spot. That’s not a failure, it’s just where most people are. The difference between the families who end up with good options and the families who end up with no options is almost always time. The ones with options started asking the questions before the crisis handed them a deadline.
You don’t need a plan because something is wrong. You need one because something will be, and the families who planned are the ones who stay in control when it happens.
🏠 If you’re thinking about buying or selling a home, or you simply need experienced guidance, I deliver expert service and personalized support to help you reach your goals. 📲 Text or call me at (305) 401-6224
— Victor Antunez
Real Estate Professional 🧩 Autism Dadvocate
PS. I created a concise housing checklist that shows where plans break down when life changes.
Review the housing checklist
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🙏 A little help please. Do you know of events or resources in Miami-Dade that disability families should know about?
- Sensory-friendly activities
- Community events open to all
- Adaptive sports or recreation
- Workshops or classes for kids or adults
- Resource or information sessions
- School or therapy center open houses
- Potential podcast guests
🎯 Hit reply and I'll include it.
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If you work as a BCBA, an RBT, a therapist, or in any healthcare role at an autism center or PPEC, there’s a Florida program that can put up to $35,000 toward your down payment and closing costs, and most of the people who qualify for it don’t know it exists.
It’s called Hometown Heroes, and it was built for people doing exactly the kind of work you do.
The catch is that funding is limited and it runs out fast. If you’ve been thinking about buying a home in Miami-Dade, this is the conversation to have right now, not in the fall.
Text me directly and I’ll tell you in 5 minutes whether you qualify.
📲 (305) 401-6224
— Victor Antunez, Real Estate Professional
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Have a great Miami week, I’ll see you out there 🦩
Victor Antunez • 305.401.6224
Real Estate Professional 🧩 Autism Dadvocate
PS. I help homeowners buy and sell homes in ways that protect long-term housing stability, financial security, and future independence. If you're thinking about buying, selling, or planning ahead, text me directly at 305.401.6224.
PSS. Your referrals are the biggest compliment you can give me.
PSSS. Let's connect on 👇 Facebook
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