Who Should You Choose to Watch Your Empty Home?
If you leave a home empty for months at a time, you have three choices for watching that property: 1.
Leave it empty with no one checking on it; 2.
Have a maid, house cleaner, neighbors or friends watch it, or 3.
Hire a professional home watch service.
Let's take a brief look at the three alternatives.
Leaving any property empty without complete preparations or someone to check on it is really taking a huge risk.
You wouldn't leave an investment portfolio worth several hundred thousand dollars for six months, so why leave your personal home and property? Even gamblers will not take these kinds of risks.
The second most common alternative is to impose on friends, neighbors, relatives, or house cleaners.
This is certainly one of the cheapest methods, but has several potential problems.
Most of the people on that list may not even own their own home, so they are ill-prepared to manage others'property.
Why would anyone agree to the responsibility of watching a beautiful home worth so much money? There are generally two reasons: fear or guilt.
Maids and house cleaners do not make huge money, let's face it.
They will agree to almost anything to avoid losing you as a customer.
If this means they have to watch the house when you leave to ensure you call them when you return, they will do it.
They have no idea what they are doing, what to look at, how often to visit, what information to record, or what they will do when something happens.
They have good intentions but neither the skill nor the motivation to preserve your asset properly.
Friends and neighbors actually have the same lack of training, but their motivation is guilt.
They may owe you a favor, may want you to owe them, or are not strong enough to tell you that they feel uncomfortable in the role of home watch.
Out of a guilty conscience they will agree.
But they have their own lives to live.
They hope nothing goes wrong.
If something happens, and you get the dreaded "Wow, you won't believe what happened" phone call, you will be angry, they will be embarrassed, and the constant reminder from the cleanup bills will sour what was once a great relationship.
Hiring a professional home watch service can eliminate most of these issues.
A professional is one that is, among other attributes, licensed and insured.
His or her motivation is simply this: it is their BUSINESS.
They should have the tools necessary to handle problems and the experience to help avoid the majority of potential issues.
Problems still happen, but a professional can devote the time and energy, as well as the constant attention, to preclude truly major disasters.
Friends and neighbors are wonderful people but when leaving a property as valuable as your private home, look for a professional home watch service.
They have the tools, motivation, and experience to give you the Peace of Mind that you deserve when you are away.
Leave it empty with no one checking on it; 2.
Have a maid, house cleaner, neighbors or friends watch it, or 3.
Hire a professional home watch service.
Let's take a brief look at the three alternatives.
Leaving any property empty without complete preparations or someone to check on it is really taking a huge risk.
You wouldn't leave an investment portfolio worth several hundred thousand dollars for six months, so why leave your personal home and property? Even gamblers will not take these kinds of risks.
The second most common alternative is to impose on friends, neighbors, relatives, or house cleaners.
This is certainly one of the cheapest methods, but has several potential problems.
Most of the people on that list may not even own their own home, so they are ill-prepared to manage others'property.
Why would anyone agree to the responsibility of watching a beautiful home worth so much money? There are generally two reasons: fear or guilt.
Maids and house cleaners do not make huge money, let's face it.
They will agree to almost anything to avoid losing you as a customer.
If this means they have to watch the house when you leave to ensure you call them when you return, they will do it.
They have no idea what they are doing, what to look at, how often to visit, what information to record, or what they will do when something happens.
They have good intentions but neither the skill nor the motivation to preserve your asset properly.
Friends and neighbors actually have the same lack of training, but their motivation is guilt.
They may owe you a favor, may want you to owe them, or are not strong enough to tell you that they feel uncomfortable in the role of home watch.
Out of a guilty conscience they will agree.
But they have their own lives to live.
They hope nothing goes wrong.
If something happens, and you get the dreaded "Wow, you won't believe what happened" phone call, you will be angry, they will be embarrassed, and the constant reminder from the cleanup bills will sour what was once a great relationship.
Hiring a professional home watch service can eliminate most of these issues.
A professional is one that is, among other attributes, licensed and insured.
His or her motivation is simply this: it is their BUSINESS.
They should have the tools necessary to handle problems and the experience to help avoid the majority of potential issues.
Problems still happen, but a professional can devote the time and energy, as well as the constant attention, to preclude truly major disasters.
Friends and neighbors are wonderful people but when leaving a property as valuable as your private home, look for a professional home watch service.
They have the tools, motivation, and experience to give you the Peace of Mind that you deserve when you are away.
