We started Harbor Lane because we lived it.
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
It started with my mother. It became Harbor Lane.
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
A whole generation is facing this. Quietly.
Ten thousand 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.
To turn one of life's most overwhelming transitions into a guided, dignified journey.
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.
A care-tech company, not a moving company.
Senior transition is fragmented, almost by design. Movers, estate sales, realtors, home modifications, care coordination, each one a different phone call, a different bill, a different stranger in your parent's home. We're putting the whole journey under one roof, and building the tools to make it clearer, calmer, and more transparent every year.
That's what we mean by care-tech. Not technology for its own sake, but a plan builder that gives any family clarity for free, a way to see the whole road ahead, and a standard of transparency this industry has never really had. The care is how we treat people. The tech is how we make sure the next family has it easier than we did.
To be the name families reach for first.
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.
The people behind the plan.
We're a small team on purpose, built from people who understand that this work is personal.
Karee Laing
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
Rebecca Smith
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
Brandon Swyers
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
Radica McKenzie
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.com
Wherever you are in this, start here.
If you're ready to talk, we're ready to listen. If you'd rather just see a plan first, build one in a few minutes. It's yours to keep either way.