Service
Contractor Access & Attendance
The plumber can come Tuesday. You are in Phoenix until April.
A vacant property generates appointments — furnace service, a repair, a measure, an appraisal, a photographer, a cleaner, a restoration crew. Each one needs someone to open the door, and for an owner who is not in the city that is the whole obstacle.
The workflow is deliberately boring and fully logged: representative attends, property is opened, contractor arrival is recorded, work proceeds, photographs are taken where you have authorised them, contractor departure is recorded, property is secured, and you receive a report the same day. Access is granted only to the appointment you arranged, and the access itself is recorded — who entered, when, why, and how the property was left.
Attendance is not supervision. Nobody is qualified to certify another trade's work by standing near it, and pretending otherwise would be worse than useless. What you get is that the appointment happened, on the day, with the door open and a record of it.
Common questions
Can someone meet a contractor or installer at my house?
Yes — this is one of the most requested services and it does not require your property to be vacant at all.
A representative attends for your appointment window, provides access, logs when the contractor or courier arrived and left, notes what was done or delivered at a general level, photographs the outcome if you have asked for it, and secures the property afterwards. You get a short report the same day.
It works for internet installations, appliance and furniture deliveries, trades, appraisers, photographers, cleaners and inspectors.
What it is not: attending an appointment is not supervision of the work and not any assessment of its quality. Nobody is certifying a plumber's work by standing near it. The service is physical attendance, access and a record of what happened.
Can you fix things at the property?
Some things, directly. Most things, by getting the right licensed person there.
Attendants handle non-trade tasks: bulbs, filters, batteries, hardware tightening, weather stripping, basic assembly, moving small furniture, simple device setup and similar work. That covers a genuinely useful share of what an empty house needs.
Alberta treats plumbing, gasfitting and electrical work as compulsory-certification trades, and some things that get casually called handyman work fall on that side of the line — replacing a thermostat with wiring behind it, anything on a water heater or furnace, changing a shower head or tap, resetting a gas appliance, replacing a light fixture. Those go to a licensed contractor.
The workflow for anything beyond an attendant's scope is: document the issue with photographs, report it to you with a recommendation, get your authorisation, engage an appropriately licensed contractor, attend for access, and document completion. VacantHomes coordinates and records the work; it does not perform it, and does not warrant the contractor's work.
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