Services

HouseSitterKC provides services based on respect for your home and three core values:

1. Trust - I’ll treat your home as my own, leaving the contents undisturbed. Smoking will not occur in your home.
2. Responsibility - I’ll be the only person to enter your home, and will reach you immediately if anything needs attention.
3. Privacy - Your identity, travel dates and our arrangements won't be shared with others.

Available services provided by HouseSitterKC include:

• Visit and inspect the home 2-4 times weekly
• Spend time in the home if desired for a lived-in appearance
• Install, set and monitor timers to light the home’s interior
• Program thermostats to safe and economical temperatures
• Set and restore alarm systems; serve as Contact #1 for your alarm provider
• Sort, send, manage or recycle unopened mail - as authorized and agreed; 75% or more is what you don't want to come home to, anyway  
• Receive or manage packages delivered by popular carriers
• Ship that item you forgot to pack - your prescription sunglasses, for example
• Collect newspapers for retention or recycle
• Set trash or recycling out per providers’ schedules and return containers
• Confirm visits by text or email, including pictures or video
• Monitoring of extreme weather and implementation of precautionary measures including: 
  • flushing toilets
  • checking or dripping faucets to inhibit frozen or burst water pipes
  • looking for water seepage, downed limbs or roof damage following storms
• Start or drive vehicles periodically to ensure as-expected use upon your return
• Obtain and deliver day-of-return necessities — or even a nice surprise
• Coordinate visits by service technicians or home-cleaning services
• Maintain plants

Occupied or empty, the responsibilities of a home continue. A house sitter can provide a lived-in appearance, deter disruptions and be a difference-maker by quickly alerting you to unexpected issues after they occur.

HouseSitterKC is not a home repair and maintenance service. Yard work, snow removal, pool maintenance, pet care or similar services are best handled by your preferred providers.