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Families are making large, irreversible housing decisions under stress (bereavement, elder care) while juggling multiple monthly obligations and constraints like stairs/elevators, proximity to friends, and HOA costs. The poster is already paying $4,000/month across mortgage + rent and is trying to choose between sell/buy vs rent strategies with high uncertainty about true all-in costs and the best path to preserve their own financial future.
ElderMove Housing Scenario Planner
A scenario-planning web app for adult children managing an aging parent’s housing transition. It models sell-vs-rent-vs-buy outcomes with realistic transaction costs, HOA escalation, elevator/building constraints, and “carry cost” timelines, producing a decision brief you can share with family and real-estate professionals.
Adult children (30-55) financially supporting an aging parent and making relocation/housing decisions across states; also fiduciary-minded caregivers coordinating siblings.
Customers need a way to quantify tradeoffs (cash after sale, monthly burn, HOA/maintenance surprises, and timeline risk) without becoming real-estate or spreadsheet experts. The product turns fragmented inputs (mortgage, expected sale price, repairs, rent comps, HOA, accessibility requirements) into comparable scenarios and highlights break-even points and worst-case downside so they can choose a sustainable plan.
Free “All-in Cost Checklist” + quick calculator estimating net proceeds after sale and first-year carry costs
$19 one-time ‘Queens/NYC Condo & HOA Cost’ scenario template pack (editable assumptions)
$29-$49/month subscription for unlimited scenarios, saved comparisons, and shareable decision packets
$9-$15/month monitoring add-on: HOA/rent/tax assumption updates + quarterly re-run alerts
$499-$1,499 ‘Family Bundle’ license for multi-stakeholder access, audit trail, and document vault (non-regulated, no advice)
MVP is primarily deterministic modeling + templates and exports (no regulated advice; position as planning software with disclaimers). Main risks are data accuracy for local taxes/HOA/rents—mitigate with user-entered assumptions, ranges, and reputable data source integrations where available. 1-2 engineers can ship a usable version quickly using standard web stack + calculation engine.
US has ~53M family caregivers; even a narrow wedge of 5-10M caregivers dealing with housing transitions over a multi-year period is substantial. Initial SAM could be ~500k-1.5M households/year facing elder relocation decisions (downsizing, condo move, sell-and-rent) in major metros with high HOA prevalence.
Optimized for lead gen and listings, not multi-option caregiver decision-making under constraints.
No HOA escalation modeling, no dual-housing burden view (paying mortgage + rent), limited sensitivity analysis and shareable decision packet.
Caregivers balancing two households and accessibility-driven constraints.
Generic assumptions; doesn’t fit condo-heavy markets where HOA dominates costs.
Weak customization for HOA, elevator/building requirements, and sale-repair-closing cost uncertainty ranges.
Users in high-HOA metros (NYC/Queens, South FL, Bay Area) making elder relocation decisions.
No guided intake, no validation, no standardized outputs, difficult for families to collaborate and trust results.
No scenario library, no audit trail, no exports designed for family consensus-building.
Non-finance caregivers needing a structured workflow and sharable artifacts.
Wedge on ‘caregiver dual-household stress’ + ‘condo HOA dominance’ scenarios with accessibility constraints, providing a standardized decision packet for family alignment rather than generic rent-vs-buy. Focus on deterministic transparency (not advice) with sensitivity ranges and templates for high-HOA metros.
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