Streetsboro resident Mitch Moore has always been adept at landing on his feet every time life has thrown him a curveball. Moore has become his own boss after having the grand opening of his new home appliance store Your Home Outlets along with Luxy Links Permanent Jewelry last Saturday afternoon in Streetsboro.
“I like the idea of being able to be community-involved and save people money,” Moore told The Weekly Villager on April 20. “That is what we are trying to do with the whole business model. We want to be known for community outreach, and are going to do toy drives and try to keep our prices as close to the 50% margin as possible for the people you know.”
Your Home Outlet currently sells washers, driers, stoves, ovens and microwaves and will have more inventory soon. According to Moore, there will also be a home flooring display and a mock kitchen offering kitchen cabinets, sinks, faucets and toilets.
Although the business is less than a week old, Moore added there have also been discussions to knock down a wall and expand the business next door to have more room for his inventory, although a timeline has still not been established.
The grand opening also featured special raffle where every 20 minutes they would raffle off a Weber Grill and then five Kobalt cordless foggers and four gift cards.
Located in Your Home Outlets is a small corner dedicated to Luxy Links Permanent Jewelry, founded by Moore’s wife, Kelsey Young, and her childhood friend Beth Underwood.
It is the second location that Young and Underwood have opened in the last two years, with their first one located in Brecksville-Broadview Heights but have now expanded to the east side.
According to Underwood, it is the perfect multi-shopping opportunity for families who visit to purchase home appliances and will also have the opportunity to buy jewelry.
“We just did our research and realized we could do our own and start our own LLC and see where it took us and we had no idea that something that was just a little side hustle resulted into having two locations, countless loyal customers, clients and a brand that we are really proud of,” Underwood told The Weekly Villager.
Having previously worked as a store manager for a home appliance store in Willoughby, Moore acknowledged that he did not plan on going into business for himself again. He had previously owned his own cleaning company and detail shop when he was only 19-years-old.
He then worked in liquidation and owned a warehouse in Twinsburg before he suffered a setback during the COVID-19 pandemic. He went to work as a store manager for a home appliance store in Willoughby for several years before he decided he needed a change. He said he had an idea of how create more business for his boss but they had a disagreement and parted ways.
No sooner did Moore part ways but he had a large inventory of home appliances on his hands with nowhere to put them.
“Within 24 hours I had two Penske trucks and a ton of appliances parked in my front yard,” he noted. “We signed a lease, bought a box truck and started rehabbing the building five months ago and we had to do it around all of the appliances.”
Moore currently has 200 appliances in his store, mostly washers and driers, courtesy of Lowe’s Home Improvement. All inventory is relatively new, having never been purchased by any customers who visited Lowe’s but was also classified as rejects due to scratches, dents and other defects that were experienced during shipping.
Moore said that he and his team personally tested all of the washers and driers and had a service technician inspect them before officially certifying them to being fully operational and are selling them at affordable prices.
“If you go by the store price and if you were to compare our price to Home Depot, it would be like going to Home Depot and buying and getting one for free,” he said.
Moore said that when he was searching for a new location to set up his business, he settled on Streetsboro because as far as he knew, Streetsboro did not have a home appliance store that offered an assortment of products like Your Home Outlet.
In addition to the two businesses sharing the space, Young also works a dual partner, sharing half of the jewelry business with Underwood and also having a partnership in her husband’s new venture with their sons Landon and Hudson helping out.
“It’s definitely a family affair,” noted Underwood. “I have seen them through good and bad and am excited to see where this will take them.”
