Property Watch

Cabin on Hood Canal, biweekly walkthrough for two years now. The tech caught a slow leak under the kitchen sink in February — a hairline crack in a supply line connector — and had a plumber out the next day. Without those visits the floor would have come up by spring.

We snowbird in Palm Springs October to April. Handis did the full winterize, sent weekly photo reports through the winter, caught a wind-damaged section of fascia after the November storm, and had the house ready the day we landed in May. Heat on, fridge running, mail sorted on the counter.

I manage twelve residential listings between Bellevue and Issaquah. Weekly drive-by plus monthly interior walk on the empty ones, all on a single Tuesday route. The photo report goes straight to the seller and to me — keeps everyone honest about condition, and the chain-of-custody log is what underwriters want to see.

Investor here, three vacant flips in process at any given time. Weekly walk catches squatter activity, kid-kicked-out-window stuff, and the package thieves who use empty driveways as a tell. Cheap insurance against the kind of break-in that adds a month to a flip schedule.

Vacation house up at Crystal Mountain. Six weekends a year, ski-season only. The biweekly walkthrough in summer catches the bear-into-trash event before the smell sets, and the winter storm-response visit cleared a snow load off the deck in February before it pulled the rail loose. Worth the program every year.