When you travel, your home doesn't stop needing eyes on it. We check the house every week you're away, whether that's a fortnight or a full winter, and file a report to your portal after every visit with photographs and the date and time we were there.
Tell us your dates and what your insurer asks for, and we'll set the visit schedule with you before you leave. Travel Watch is billed as our own time.
Why weekly, here
A furnace that quits in January doesn't give you a week. It gives you until the pipes on an exterior wall drop below freezing.
Unshovelled walks and a full mailbox tell the street nobody's home. Part of the visit is making the house not look away.
Being away over a storm weekend means nobody is watching the sump pit. We'd rather find that on a Tuesday than when you land.
Every visit works the same checklist, so nothing depends on who went or how the week was going. The report tells you what was checked and what we saw.
Many home insurance policies ask for a home to be checked on a set schedule while it sits empty. Every Travel Watch visit is a dated, photographed record in your portal that you can give your insurer. What your policy requires is between you and your insurer. Read it, tell us what it says, and we'll tell you honestly whether weekly visits match it or whether you need us there more often, and set the schedule with you before you leave. Travel Watch needs a way in that stays under your control, like a lockbox or a smart lock you can revoke. If you'd rather we held a key or a code for you, we can, under a separate written custody arrangement you can cancel at any time.
The membership covers the proactive management of your home: the plan, the record, and getting third-party work sourced, quoted, and ready for your approval. The work itself is billed at the partner's actual cost plus a flat 15% coordination fee, quoted and approved before it proceeds. Dumeau's own time, whether carrying out a task ourselves or actively planning, coordinating, or handling issues on work you have approved, is billed at the published $120/hr rate. See how pricing works.
Send us a note and we'll be in touch to arrange a visit, then recommend the right plan for your home.