A little over a year ago, our mother was almost eighty and ready for what came next. Downsizing the house she had lived in for decades, selling it, and moving her across state lines was the hardest year our family had. Harbor Lane is everything we wish someone had handed us then.
Karee Laing, Founder & CEO
01From our founder
More than a year ago, our mother was almost eighty, and she told us she didn't want to live on her own anymore. She had earned her rest. What she hadn't planned for, and what none of us had planned for, was everything that came next. Where she would go. Who would help. What happens to a house she had lived in for decades, the one full of a lifetime.
We downsized it. We sold it. We moved her across state lines. On paper, it was a to-do list. In real life, it was one of the hardest years of mine.
There was the logistics of it, which never seemed to end. There was the money, which nobody wants to say out loud. And underneath all of it, there was the grief. Watching my mother say goodbye to the home she had made, and realizing the roles had quietly reversed.
I'll be honest about the part most people don't say out loud. It strained relationships I thought were unbreakable. Big decisions, made fast and under pressure, have a way of pulling a family in different directions, and some of that we're still healing.
It took distance, and honestly some time in therapy, to see clearly what that year had really been. And when I did, one thought wouldn't leave me: this is happening to families everywhere, right now, and almost no one is ready for it.
Karee Laing, Founder & CEO
02Why we exist
10,000
Americans turn sixty-five every day.
Behind so many of them is an adult child, often a daughter, trying to hold down a job, a family, and a parent's entire transition all at once.
We're not ready for it, because no one prepares us. The emotional toll. The logistical toll. The financial toll. The sheer effort of finding the right help at the worst possible moment. It gets carried privately, by people who love their parents and are quietly drowning.
Harbor Lane exists so that no family has to carry it alone, or figure it out from scratch, the way we did.
03Our mission
We handle the move, the home, and the plan behind both, with one trained team, so families can go back to being family. An aging parent deserves dignity, and the people who love them deserve support, not a maze of vendors and a stack of decisions no one prepared them for.
04What we're building
Families end up stitching together movers, estate sales, realtors and care coordination during the hardest weeks of their year. We're building one company they can start with and stay with, and there are three ways in.
The people and services that carry the plan: sorting and downsizing, the move, settling in, clearing the old home, and aging in place. Our own trained team does the work, and we bring in vetted trades for anything outside it.
What we handleA free, neutral planning tool for Houston families, built at Houston Hackathon 2026, where it won. It lists free public help first and takes no paid placement, so it's useful whether or not a family ever calls us.
Visit KinSourceOur pop-up book cart and talks, at senior living communities, Senior Days, libraries, churches and markets across Greater Houston. Every book is free at senior events, and there's never a sign-up sheet.
See the cart05Our goal
When a family anywhere in Metro Houston realizes it's time, whether it's from the city itself or to Katy, Sugar Land, The Woodlands, or any of the communities around them, we want Harbor Lane to be the first call, and the only one they need to make. And if you're bringing a parent to Houston from somewhere else, we're the team on this end, ready to get them settled before the boxes arrive. However the journey runs, we want the way we do it, with dignity, transparency, and one accountable team, to become the standard the whole industry is measured against.
06Our team
We're a small team on purpose, built from people who understand that this work is personal.
Founder & CEO
Karee started Harbor Lane after living this transition with her own mother. She leads the company's vision, brand, and the promise that every family is guided the way she wishes hers had been.
karee@harborlaneseniorconcierge.com
Senior Project Manager
Rebecca runs the work on the ground, turning each family's plan into a calm, coordinated reality, one room and one day at a time.
rebecca@harborlaneseniorconcierge.com
Chief Revenue Officer
Brandon builds the partnerships and the model that let Harbor Lane grow without ever losing the personal touch at the center of it.
brandon@harborlaneseniorconcierge.com
Head of Community and Partnership Growth
Radica connects Harbor Lane to the communities, professionals, and referral partners across Houston who guide families toward help they can trust.
radica@harborlaneseniorconcierge.comWe're hiring across Greater Houston.
See open roles07Three ways to start
Answer a few questions and see a phased roadmap with an honest cost range. It's yours to keep, whether or not we ever work together.
Our pop-up book cart comes to senior living communities, Senior Days, libraries and markets across Greater Houston. Pick a book, pick your bookmarks, and say hello.
Tell us what's going on. We read every word before we call, and we answer same-day when the timeline is short.