The shared cabin and second home app. Keep the family square.
A home management app for the lake house, the cabin, the place in Florida, the house a parent can’t keep up alone. What your caretaker did, who’s there and when, what’s low, what it cost and who paid: one record the whole family can see, on your phone.
Angie’s Home Watch checked The Cottage today. All clear. Report: housematters.app/r/3f9…
Maya booked The Cottage, Sep 18-21. Open-up list assigned. The turnover is on Angie’s route.
Every visit, every photo, and the list for their next one.
Angie checks the house on Tuesdays. Her report lands on your phone as she files it: every item, every photo, anything she flagged. You see when she’s due and what a visit costs. And when something’s on your mind, the propane, the gutter, you put it on her list, and it’s on her checklist when she walks in.
Who’s there, and when it’s available.
You, the guests you invite, the family you share it with: every stay on one calendar, with the open-up and close-down lists attached. Your caretaker sees it too, so the turnover is on their route the day guests leave, and the house is checked while it sits empty.
Know what to pick up before the next stay.
A second home runs out of things while nobody’s there. Mark what’s OK, low or out as you come and go, and the list is waiting when you shop for the drive up. Something needs fixing? Flag it with a photo and it stays on the list until it’s done. Got a caretaker? Ask them to check on it, and it’s on their next visit.
What it costs to run, and what you’ve put into it.
Power, the HOA, the plow contract, your caretaker’s invoice: everything the home owes and who pays it, so you know what ownership actually costs. The new roof, the remodel, the dock: improvements are kept apart from upkeep, toward the cost basis, so when you sell or pass the home on, the number is right and the tax bill is smaller. Connect your bank and pull the home’s expenses and improvements straight from the statement.
A shared home is a group effort. Keep it square.
Invite the people who hold a key. Your sister books the Fourth, and your brother sees it the same day. The propane fill, the plow, the winterizing: split it, and everyone sees who paid and who owes. Whoever’s up next can flag what broke and hand it to whoever can fix it. Settle up your way, Venmo or a check at Thanksgiving.
Free to run your home.
$10 a month to invite family and track bills and costs.
The first three things above are free. The last two are the $10.
It starts when you invite someone beyond your spouse or partner, or log a bill or a cost. No trial, no card until then.
My Home
Running the place, with or without a caretaker.
No card, no trial
For you, and your caretaker if you have one:
- Your caretaker - every report as it’s filed, the schedule, the list for their next visit
- Stays and the calendar - who is there, and when it is available
- Stock and upkeep - OK, low, out; flag it with a photo; ask the caretaker to check
Shared Home
Everyone who holds a key, on the same record.
To invite family and track bills and costs
Everything in My Home, plus:
- Bills and utilities - what the home owes, who pays each one, each statement marked paid
- The ledger and the cost basis - every cost with who paid; improvements kept apart, one export
- Keyholders - the family books stays, splits bills, flags what broke, settles up
If your caretaker uses House Matters, you’re already in it.
They add your home; you get one text. Sign in with the email or mobile they have for you and every report, photo and bill is waiting. Free on the App Store and Google Play. Works in your browser too.
House Matters is built by Family Matters. The same sign-in opens your home there too, and if your family ever wants the money side, loans, gifts and 529s, that is where it lives.
The math families fight about, written down.
A shared home runs on stays, upkeep and money questions nobody enjoys raising. On one record, the calendar is fair because everyone can see it, and a cost is split the moment it is logged: who paid, whose share, and what is still owed, settled your way.
Cabin expense split
Every cost, every share, one answer nobody argues with.
Free guideFair scheduling
The systems that keep July from going to the same sibling every year.
Free guideShared cabin apps, compared
What each one costs, every price dated, and which family it fits.
Free templateFamily cabin agreement
Who pays, who decides, what happens when someone wants out.
Free guideCabin trust vs. LLC
The two ways families hold a place, and when each one fits.
Free guideHome maintenance checklist by season (2026)
The whole year, with the rows the generic lists skip for a second home or an empty house.
Sharing the place with family? See how it works for a shared cabin and a family lake house, or print a free vacation home calendar.
Leaving the house empty for a season? The winterizing checklist, what insurers expect of an empty house, and how to hire a home watch service are in the homeowners’ guides.
Plain answers for homeowners.
What families ask before they set up the home.
What is House Matters for a homeowner, in one paragraph?
House Matters is a home management app for a home that more than one person looks after: a second home, a family cabin, a rental, a parent’s house. Keys and stays on one calendar, supplies and upkeep on one list, every cost logged with who paid and kept toward the cost basis, and your home watcher, cleaner or handyman working right in the record. Free to run the home; $10 a month to invite family and track bills and costs. Works in your browser today.
What is free, and what is the $10?
Running the home is free. Inviting family and tracking bills and costs is $10 a month. Running the home is free: your stays, what’s in it, the upkeep, and everything your caretaker does. Keys for the family beyond your spouse or partner, the bills and the home’s ledger are $10 a month. Your spouse or partner comes in free. Nothing is charged until you invite someone beyond them or log a bill or a cost, and the $10 covers everyone who holds a key.
What does my caretaker see?
Your home, and nothing else. A home watcher, cleaner or handyman you invite sees the address, the keys and codes you choose to share, the supply list, what you flagged, and their own visits. Not your ledger, not your family’s other homes.
Can my cleaner and my handyman both be on it?
One caretaker per home today. If your home watcher also fixes things, everything they do lands on the record. A second person’s work goes on the record as a cost you log, with their invoice attached.
I already use Family Matters.
Then your home is already there. House Matters and Family Matters share one sign-in. Your home shows up in both; the money side - loans, gifts, 529s - stays in Family Matters.
Is there an app?
Free on the App Store and Google Play. Works in your browser too. Sign in at app.housematters.app with your email or mobile, no password to remember, and save it to your home screen.
Who owns the record?
Your family does. Every stay, cost, photo and report belongs to you. Ask, and House Matters sends you all of it as a spreadsheet within a week, or deletes the home and everything in it.
A home to look after? Start today.
Free to run your home.
$10 a month to invite family and track bills and costs.
Free on the App Store and Google Play. Works in your browser too. Sign in with your email or mobile, no password to remember.
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Look after homes for a living? House Matters is for home watchers, cleaners and handymen.