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Vistancia Home Watching › Home watch vs. house sitting
They get mixed up all the time, but they're three different services for three different situations. Here's how to tell which one fits your home.
A home watcher doesn't live in your house. They visit it on a schedule, walk it inside and out, check that the systems are working, and send you a report of what they found. It's built for a house that's empty: a seasonal home, a home that's for sale, or a home while you travel.
What you're paying for is attention and a record: someone who knows what to look for, on the days you've agreed, with notes and photos to show for it.
A house sitter stays in your home while you're away. That's the right choice when something needs a person there every day, like pets that need feeding or a household that can't be left alone.
The trade-off is that you're having someone live in your home, and a house sitter isn't necessarily looking for the slow leak or the tripped breaker. Many house sitting arrangements are informal, without a written report of each day.
A property manager runs a rental: finding tenants, collecting rent, handling repairs and dealing with the tenants who live there. It's for a home someone else lives in, not an empty one.
A quick way to decide:
Usually, because you're paying for scheduled visits rather than someone's time every day. Our visits are $60 per visit for homes up to 2,500 square feet and $70 for larger homes.
Everything that can go wrong in an empty house: doors and windows, the landscaping and irrigation, ceilings for water, breakers, the HVAC and water heater, appliances, and every faucet and toilet. Our full checklist is on our home watching page.
We live in Vistancia and check homes here all year. Tell Sage what's going on with your home, any hour.
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