Peter and Janette Hogg have strong professional backgrounds with many years experience gained from working directly within the retirement village industry as well as that of other associated industries.Our strength lies in our innovation and expertise. We have earned a strong reputation for honesty and quality in our dealings without compromise. 

Peter and Janette have lived on the Central Coast for most of their lives and have 2 wonderful adult children and 3 beautiful Granddaughters for whom they are very proud. They fully embrace and espouse the importance of the family unit. They see their family and their wellbeing as their principal priority in life.

Both Peter and Janette have been trained previously in Senior First Aid and Advanced Resuscitation techniques and have a strong empathy with the elderly.

Peter and Janette have extensive retirement village experience and understanding and have always placed the health, care and wellbeing of residents placed in their trust and care above all else.

They also possess excellent people and communication skills (see testimonials) and have made significant contributions to the overall success and resident satisfaction of the retirement villages they have served.

Daughter Melinda has followed in her Mother’s footsteps becoming a valued member of staff at Kitchen’s of Sara Lee Australia Limited Lisarow and Pymble working in their Accounting Department being responsible to the Financial Controller.

Son Stephen is the Licensee in Charge and Central Coast Business Manager of Central Coast Community Strata Title Management (CSTM) Tuggerah and Terrigal. Stephen has worked in the real estate industry his entire working life where he has built an excellent reputation for honesty, integrity and for the delivery of service and reliability.

Both Melinda and Stephen hold managerial positions of trust and responsibility and have excelled in their chosen field of endeavour through sheer hard work, commitment and perseverance.

Peter is an excellent communicator and is tenacious in his ability to follow things through to the end.

He has extensive experience in both commerce and industry and first hand experience with retirement villages at the highest level.

Peter has held the positions of Village, Sales and General Manager of retirement villages both large and small over many years now and has held these positions of trust and responsibility with honour and distinction so say his peers. His experience extends from site selection, design of new villages, to the operational and resident relations side of the retirement village industry.

He is an exceptionally good listener, able to quickly cut through to the essential aspects of challenges and problems, very well organised and equally determined, so clients benefit from their particular needs being attended to promptly and efficiently towards the best conclusion possible.

During his long and distinguished career he has dealt directly with residents and their families, residents committees, professional people and clients alike from within the retirement village industry.
Over the years (now) many lifelong friendships have been made and maintained.
Peter is considered by his peers to be an expert in the retirement village industry. Peter has over 40 years experience in the retirement, aged care and client service industries.

He is also a qualified Automotive Engineer and certainly knows his way around motor vehicles. He has been a Justice of the Peace NSW (registration number 150482) for 34 years now and has been a recipient of the prestigious “Rotary Pride of Workmanship Award”.

In addition he has received many other acknowledgements, diplomas, certificates of accomplishment and awards befitting his good character and  business acumen. These are available for viewing upon application.

Peter is very personable and has a strong customer focused background. He has empathy with the elderly, is generous to a fault, possesses a warm sense of humour, has a photographic memory (polymath) and his personal following of clients and friends is quite substantial. He is a person of excellent character, high moral values and in business dealings a man of integrity and courtesy.

The traits and character assessment as described herein have been taken from testimonials and references supplied to Peter over the years. These statements befitting his character, business acumen and abilities are those made by his peers (see testimonials)

Janette has a strong professional background and qualifications in Accounting.

She has worked in both the private sector and within Government instrumentalities throughout her working life and has served these organisations with honour and distinction so say her peers.

During her working life she has fulfilled various positions including but not limited to; Assistant Accountant Kitchens of Sara Lee Australia Limited Lisarow where she was responsible to the Financial Controller and Managing Director, Registrar of Cooma (NSW) TAFE College (Illawarra Institute of Technology), business partner, company secretary and she has extensive experience in the banking sector having worked for the National Australia Bank (NAB) for quite some years now.

As Registrar of Cooma TAFE College she dealt directly with both the NSW Minister for Education and the Director General of Education and was responsible for the administration and the day to day running of the college in conjunction with the College Manager. Additionally she was a highly respected and valued member of staff at Living Choice Australia Limited/Central Coast Retirement Limited working from their Broadwater Court Retirement Village complex Kincumber for some years.

She worked primarily in the Accounting Department and was responsible for the creation, calculation and distribution of the residents monthly levy statements (recurrent fees) in conjunction with the Director, General Manager - Finance.

Her responsibilities also extended to fielding queries and questions raised by residents in matters of recurrent fees as well as other accounting and village matters. Resident’s recurrent fees forms an integral part of retirement village life and are a major component of the village budget and as such must be handled with utmost consideration, understanding and due diligence.

Janette also served as personal assistant (PA) to the Founder, Chairman of the Board and Managing Director Living Choice Australia Limited Mr Ron Dobler.

During her time spent in the retirement village industry she maintained qualifications in Senior First Aid and Advanced Resuscitation. Her duties also included that of receptionist, transporting residents to and from medical appointments as required and providing them comfort and support in liaison with Village Management and nursing staff. In addition she served as back up to both Deepwater Court Retirement Village Woy Woy and Alloura Waters Retirement Village Davistown. These villages are part of the Living Choice Australia family.

Janette possesses substantive retirement village knowledge and experience and is fully conversant in all aspects of retirement village life. She has always placed the health, care and wellbeing of residents placed in her trust and care above all else.

Janette and Peter  possess excellent people and communication skills and have strong empathy with the elderly.