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See all productsStart, price and run a home watch service for seasonal and absent homeowners: a guide, agreements, visit forms, a pricing and visit tracker, messages and a flyer.
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✦ About this kit
A home watch business checks on homes while the owners are away: snowbirds, second-home owners, families handling an empty house. It's simple to explain and careful to run. Clients hand you their keys and their trust, so they want to know exactly what you'll check, how you'll report, what you'll do if something goes wrong, and what it costs. This kit gives you all of that in one place.
The 33-page guide starts with the scope lines: what a visit includes, what to ask about first, and what to leave alone (repairs, renting or showing the home, anything licensed), with the local rules and insurance questions to check before your first client. Then it prices a visit from your own costs, with a worked example that turns time, mileage and overhead into a per-visit price, monthly plans and add-ons. It walks the visit route, the readings worth recording, the same-day report, an issue ladder for deciding who to call and when, storm and freeze service, opening and closing a house, finding clients honestly, and a 30-day plan.
The paperwork matches the guide. Eight agreement templates cover the service agreement, the visit plan and price schedule, keys and alarm access, emergency contacts and a vendor spending limit, a storm and freeze add-on, a house opening and closing add-on, fees and policies, and an end of service and key return receipt. Eight forms cover the property profile, the visit checklist, the visit report, issue follow-up, a key custody log, house closing and opening checklists and an after-storm check. 16 ready-to-send messages handle inquiries, referral partners, onboarding, visit reports, issues, storms, freezes, invoices, rate changes and arrivals.
The Home Watch Pricing & Visit Tracker (Excel and Google Sheets, no macros) prices three home sizes from your own pay target, mileage and overhead, logs clients, visits and keys by code, shows the next visit date, flags late reports and sums visits and issues by month. A Letter flyer with an editable PowerPoint version is ready for your name and number. Everything is a sample to adapt, not legal or insurance advice; rules differ by state, and the guide links official sources (checked November 5, 2026).
Clear scope lines
What a visit includes, what to price as an add-on, and what to leave to licensed pros or property managers, written into the agreement.
Prices from your own costs
Time, mileage and overhead become a per-visit price, weekly and every-two-weeks plans and add-ons, in a tracker you can change.
A visit routine clients can see
The same route, readings and same-day report every visit, plus an issue ladder for who to call and when.
Storms, freezes and seasons
Storm prep, after-storm checks, freeze watch and house opening and closing agreed in writing before the season.
What's included
Features
11 sections: the service, what is and isn't included, reports, issues and emergencies, keys, the owner's part, fees, limits of the service, insurance, ending and general terms.
Schedule A sets the property, utilities while away, the visit plan and the add-ons chosen, with prices from the tracker.
Key codes, a custody log, a weekly count and a key return receipt, with codes kept off texts and reports.
Contacts in order, the owner's vendors and an emergency spending limit agreed in advance. Owners pay vendors directly.
Outside and inside checks, temperature and humidity readings, photos and a same-day report with facts, not guesses.
Optional prep visits, after-storm checks when it's safe and legal to travel, and freeze-watch visits with a trigger temperature.
Cost floor, per-visit and plan prices for three home sizes, add-ons, clients, a visit log with next-visit dates, keys by code and a monthly summary.
16 ready-to-send messages and a Letter flyer with an editable PowerPoint version.
How it works
Checkout is handled by Gumroad, with no subscription.
Your receipt has the download link; open 0 - START HERE.pdf first.
Read the scope lines, set your prices in the tracker, then walk your own home with the visit checklist and make a sample report.
FAQ
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One ZIP with 14 files: the 33-page guide, 8 agreement templates, 8 visit forms and 16 messages (each as PDF and editable Word, messages also as plain text), the Home Watch Pricing & Visit Tracker (Excel), a flyer (PDF and PowerPoint), a START HERE page and a license file.
There's no home watch license as such, but business registration and local licenses apply, and some tasks can need a license (for example renting or showing a home, or repairs). Chapter 1 lists what to check and links two Florida statutes as examples. Rules differ by state and city, so check locally.
It shows you how to price from your own costs. The worked example (a fictional business) prices a standard visit at $85 from 1.5 hours, 14 miles and an overhead share. Use your own numbers; the tracker recalculates.
No. They are plain-language samples marked "Sample. Have it reviewed for your state." Have them reviewed by a local attorney before you rely on them.
It lists the questions to ask an insurance agent (liability, professional liability, property in your care, bonding, auto). It doesn't recommend a policy; your agent and policy wording decide what's covered.
Yes. Every document has a Word version (opens in Word, Google Docs or Pages) with [PLACEHOLDERS] for your details, the tracker opens in Excel or Google Sheets, and the flyer has a PowerPoint version that also imports into Google Slides or Canva.
No. OwnerKits is independent. The guide mentions the NHWA's optional accreditation so you can decide if it fits your business.
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