The questions owners ask before they hand over a key

Home watch is a scheduled visual inspection of a property that sits unoccupied for stretches of time. The same route is walked every visit (roof and siding from the ground, the perimeter, every interior room, and the mechanical systems), so that a change is obvious the moment it appears.

It is not house-sitting, it is not a security patrol, and it is not maintenance work. It is documented observation, followed by fast notification when something looks wrong.

Visit frequency is set during your consultation and written into your stewardship plan. A home occupied two weekends a month needs a different rhythm than one sitting empty from November to April.

Frequency also flexes with the season and the weather: visits are added around storms, hard freezes and the days before an arrival, rather than held rigidly to a calendar that does not know what the mountain is doing.

A video walk-through of the property, plus photographs of anything worth documenting. You see what we saw, in the order we saw it.

That matters more than it sounds. A checklist asks you to take someone's word for it. Video does not.

No. White Oak Stewardship observes, documents and coordinates. Licensed trades do the licensed work, and we meet them, watch the work, and confirm it was completed properly.

Keeping those two roles separate is what makes the verification worth anything. A company that inspects its own repairs is not really inspecting.

It is documented, and you are notified promptly. Where the situation is urgent (active water, a failed system, storm damage), you are called rather than emailed.

We then coordinate the right vendor once you approve. Nothing is spent on your behalf without a conversation first.

Yes. Post-cleaning quality checks, guest arrival preparation, restocking and vendor coordination between stays are all available, and full guest readiness support is included at the Private Stewardship level.

Reviews are won and lost in the two hours before a guest walks in. That is the window worth covering.

The first ten homes to enroll in the Home Watch membership pay the founding rate of $249 a month, and keep that rate for as long as the membership stays active. Founding members receive exactly the same service as every member who follows.

Once ten places are filled, the founding rate closes. Membership details are discussed during your private consultation.

Memberships are billed monthly with no minimum term. Enrollment requires acceptance of the Service Agreement and Liability Waiver, which define scope and access. That is protection for both sides, not a lock-in period.

Yes. One-time services need no membership: a single property inspection with video report, a pre-arrival preparation, a post-storm check, or a vacation rental readiness check.

Most owners who start there are deciding whether the standard of care is real. It is a reasonable way to find out.

Repair work, cleaning labour, landscaping and anything requiring a licensed trade are coordinated rather than performed, and billed by the vendor. Groceries, supplies and third-party costs are passed through at cost.

Additional visits, project oversight, decorating, organization and errands beyond your membership level are available à la carte, always with an estimate before work begins.

Big Canoe, Jasper, Tate, Dawsonville, Ball Ground, Ellijay, Blue Ridge and the surrounding North Georgia mountain communities.

If your home sits just outside that list, ask anyway. Coverage grows with the membership base.

Not yet. Round-the-clock emergency coordination, storm assessments, home opening and closing, preventative maintenance tracking, home inventory management and smart-home coordination are on the roadmap as the business grows.

We would rather say that plainly than promise a response time we cannot hold. If one of these matters to you now, raise it during your consultation.