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For home-watch and estate-management companies

Show every owner the care you already give.

One system for your office, your inspectors and the homeowners you serve: recurring visits, inspections documented with photos, issues and vendors in one place, and a calm portal under your own brand.

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Seabreeze Home Watch

Good morning, Margaret

Last inspection completed Oct 28 — no issues reported.

Next visit: Tue, Nov 11

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Illustrative screen with sample data. A homeowner's view, under the company's brand. Try the sample portal

The work is good. The record of it is scattered.

Your clients are far away, and they trust you with an empty house for months at a time. But the work usually lives across paper checklists, spreadsheets, text threads and email. Visits are hard to track, issues get buried, and reports get retyped. Owners call to ask what you could have already shown them.

You hold the keys. We treat that seriously.

Alarm codes, gate codes and "owner away until April" are the most sensitive things you hold. Access information is encrypted separately, hidden by default, and every view is logged with who and when.

How we handle security

14 Heron Way: access info

Gate code ••••••Reveal

Who viewed this

  • D. InspectorTue, Oct 28, 9:42 AMPhone
  • R. ManagerMon, Oct 20, 3:15 PMDesktop
Illustrative screen with sample data.

One system, three views of the same work

Office

See what needs attention today: overdue visits, open issues, work orders and reports waiting to go out.

Urgent issueWater under sink, 14 Heron Way
Overdue visitDue yesterday, 8 Palm Court
Report to publishReviewed, 31 Sand Dollar Dr
Work orderPlumber scheduled Thu, 14 Heron Way

Field

A phone-first checklist your inspectors can use one-handed, even when the signal drops.

Water heater

OK
Needs attention
Not inspected

2 photos saved on phone, waiting for signal

Homeowner portal

Your name and logo, and the three things an owner wants to know.

Is my home okay?

What happened?

Do you need anything from me?

More about OfficeMore about FieldMore about the Homeowner portalTry the sample portal

From a scheduled visit to an owner's report

  1. 1. PlanSet a recurring visit plan for each home, with a template and a default inspector.
  2. 2. VisitThe inspector marks each item OK, Needs attention or Not inspected, and adds photos and notes.
  3. 3. ReviewYour manager turns a finding into an issue or work order and edits the owner's summary.
  4. 4. PublishNothing reaches the owner until your team publishes it. Then linked homeowners get an email.
  5. 5. OwnerThey sign in from an emailed link, with no password, and see the report and photos.

The report is started before anyone sits down to write it.

When the inspector submits a visit, the owner's summary is already filled in from the results. Your manager reads it, changes what they want, chooses the photos, and publishes. Nobody retypes a checklist at night.

Visit review: 31 Sand Dollar Dr

Submitted by D. Inspector. 24 items OK, 6 photos.

Owner summary

Last inspection completed Oct 28 — no issues reported.
Publish reportReturn to inspector
Illustrative screen with sample data.

Reports that say what happened

Last inspection completed Oct 28 — no issues reported.

Your home is safe.

Owners don't need reassurance they can't check. They need facts. A report your team can stand behind is a stronger promise than a slogan.

Your company comes first

Homeowners see your logo, your color and your contact details. Tern Home stays in the background with a small "Powered by" line. Your license, insurance and accreditation details appear as you enter them.

Built for storm season

When a watch or warning is issued, your dashboard shows which homes it touches, using official National Weather Service alerts. Post-storm visit suggestions and storm workflows are planned ahead of the 2027 season.

How storm readiness works

Hurricane Watch — 9 properties affected
Sample alert. Source: National Weather Service.

What it isn't

Tern Home isn't a rental-management system: no leases, tenants or rent. And it isn't a generic field-service app. It's built for high-value, often unoccupied homes and the owners who live far from them.

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