Service
Home Sitting Visits
You want the house to look like someone lives there, because from the street it very obviously does not.
Home sitting here means regular human presence, not overnight stays. Someone attends on a schedule, spends real time in and around the property, handles the small recurring things a lived-in house needs, and leaves it looking like somebody was there — because somebody was.
The occupancy signal is genuinely useful and genuinely underrated. Bins that appear and disappear on the right day, a cleared walk within a reasonable time of a snowfall, no flyer drift on the step, blinds and lights that change, mail that never accumulates, a car that occasionally sits in the driveway if you have arranged it. None of this is security. All of it removes the easy visual cues that a house is empty.
The rest of the visit is ordinary property care: temperature, water evidence, plants, mail, parcels, running taps, and whatever recurring tasks you have set up.
Common questions
Does an empty house attract break-ins?
An empty house that visibly looks empty does. An empty house that does not look empty is a much less interesting proposition.
Properties are generally selected on visible cues rather than any knowledge of who lives there: accumulated mail and flyers, an uncleared walk after a snowfall, unchanging or absent lighting, no vehicle, blinds in the same position for weeks, and untended grass. Every one of those is removable.
The practical countermeasures are unglamorous and effective. Mail collected and flyers cleared. Walks cleared within a day of snowfall. Grass cut. Bins out and back on collection day. Lighting on varied timers rather than one lamp on a fixed cycle. Blinds moved. Visits at irregular times rather than the same hour every week.
One more thing worth checking: many policies restrict or exclude vandalism and theft coverage once a property has been vacant beyond a defined period. If that applies to your situation, the loss may not respond the way you assume. Ask your broker.
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