![]() ![]() “We reached out to our customers and said, ‘I'm sorry but we are going to have to shut down the business to focus on business school.’ Everyone wrote back and said we will pay you more,” Sapone said. ![]() They tried to cancel the business several times, but their customers were already hooked. They had to get customers to trust them with a key to their home, while finishing assignments, studying for tests and exhausting themselves running errands. CHICAGO (June 28, 2018) Related Midwest, a division of Related Companies, the nation’s most prominent privately owned real estate firm, today announced the Chicago launch of Related’s new strategic partnership with Hello Alfred. “We had families sign up for $400 a month, and Jess and I knocked on their door and said we will be your assistant, tell us what we can do to take things off your plate and save you time,” Sapone said.įrom picking up packages and dry cleaning, to buying and putting away groceries, the business began to grow, leaving Sapone and Beck overwhelmed as they were still in school. That includes more than 20 buildings in Manhattan as well as properties in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago and Washington, D.C. To spread the word and figure out if this could be a successful business, the two co-founders slid postcards under people’s doors in different neighborhoods throughout Boston. The deal, announced today, makes Hello Alfred the exclusive provider of a customized concierge service across the entire Related rental portfolio. After much thinking and planning and trying to sculpt the original stick figure drawing into a real life business, Beck and Sapone created Hello Alfred, a residential hospitality and commerce platform for modern urban living, to see if there was a real need for this service.
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