AvehoLike millions of people every year, my grandmother recently had to move out of her home of over 70 years into an assisted living facility in another state.
Beyond just the emotional toll of such a major life change, the process was also a logistical nightmare. Family members made the four-hour drive to her house multiple times each month for the entire summer. Every visit started with digging through a room and taking dozens of pictures of the "stuff." Furniture, silverware, tools, clothes, decorations, games, sporting equipment. The list just never ended.
And with almost every item, we asked ourselves the same questions:
- What exactly is this?
- Is this collectable?
- Is it worth anything?
- Do you think anyone in the family might want it?
- Where can we donate this? Will they even accept it?
- Can we recycle any of this? Where?
- Who can we pay to haul away the rest?
We burned countless hours trying to identify items online, searching for values, texting family members to see what they wanted, calling local donation centers, and driving to recycling centers.
We eventually got through it all. But at the end, I couldn't help but think:
As I dug into it, I found that we definitely weren't alone. Every year, roughly 2.7 million American homes are emptied. Someone downsizes for retirement. A parent moves to assisted living. A loved one passes away, leaving the family to deal with a lifetime of belongings. Literally millions of people face this at one of the most stressful and emotional moments of their lives.
So I founded Aveho to make downsizing and estate cleanouts dramatically faster, easier, and less stressful, by putting all of the information and tools you need right in your pocket.
