Downsizable featured in Boston Globe

Co-founders Kate Anderson and Blair Hammond were recently interviewed by Boston Globe columnist Kara Baskin. The duo shared the origin of their business and what to do (and not do) when downsizing.

Globe subscribers can read the article in it’s entirety at this link: Are Your Parents Thinking About Downsizing?

A small excerpt from the piece can be found below.

“According to the Pew Research Center, Americans in their 40s are the most likely to be sandwiched between their children and an aging parent. More than half in this age group (54 percent) have a living parent age 65 or older and are either raising a child younger than 18 or have an adult child they helped financially in the past year,” Baskin writes.

Consider donation partners. “Research donation partners in your area, and also your town and city trash rules. You might be able to put some things curbside, but a lot of things you cannot: air-conditioning units, mattresses, box springs. All of those require special pickup, and every town and city is different,” Hammond says.

Plan early, before a fall or an illness forces the moving issue. “This is personal to me: What I would wish people would talk about is making a plan of where they want to go next,” Anderson says. “By not making a plan, you’re inviting yourself to have to make a plan in some sort of emergent situation. The best clients that we’ve had — the most prepared ones — have said, ‘I’m living in this house, then I’m going to sell the house.”

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