Realtors
Your listing is vacant. Your job is not to be its caretaker.
An independent property-care option you can offer sellers, so the vacant listing stops being your problem to solve personally.
Every agent with vacant listings ends up doing this work. Driving out to check the house after a storm. Turning the heat back up after a showing. Putting the bins away. Clearing flyers off the step before photography. Arranging a lawn cut because it is embarrassing. Meeting a contractor because the seller is in Kelowna.
None of it is your job, all of it affects your listing, and none of it is billable. Worse, doing it informally creates exposure: if you are the last person in an empty house before a pipe lets go, you do not want to be improvising an answer about what you did and did not check.
An independent property-care option gives sellers a real answer. The property is visited on a schedule, presentation is maintained, the seller receives documentation, and the physical care of the asset sits with a service engaged for that purpose rather than with the listing agent as an unpaid extra.
The relationship is designed not to interfere. VacantHomes does not give opinions on price, condition or marketing, does not show the property, does not speak to buyers, and does not sit between an agent and their client. The seller is the customer. The agent gets a listing that stays in the condition their photos promised.
What actually goes wrong
Unpaid caretaking
Checking on vacant listings is real time, real driving and real liability that no commission accounts for.
Presentation drift
A listing that photographed beautifully in May shows very differently in August with dead grass and a dusty entry.
Post-showing state
Lights, locks, thermostat and gates after every showing. Somebody has to verify it and it should not be you at 9 PM.
Out-of-town sellers
A seller who has already relocated cannot handle anything physical. Without a service, those requests come to you.
Services
What this usually involves
In roughly the order people add them.
Vacant Listing Check
A presentation and condition check for a vacant listing, timed around showings, with a reset before important viewings.
Vacant Home Checks
Scheduled physical visits to an unoccupied property, with a timestamped photo record and a written report after every visit.
Cleaning Coordination
Cleaning scheduled with a local provider, attended for access, and verified with photographs afterwards.
Lawn & Yard Coordination
Mowing and yard maintenance arranged on a schedule and verified with photographs on your next visit.
Snow Removal Coordination
Snow clearing arranged with a local provider and verified on your next visit, with photographs after clearing.
Contractor Access & Attendance
A representative opens the property for a scheduled trade or professional, logs arrival and departure, and secures it afterwards.
Pre-Vacancy Inspection
A professional home inspection by a qualified independent inspector before a long vacancy, with findings converted into monitoring items.
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