One home, looked after. Everyone square.
The lake house, the cabin, the place in Florida, the house a parent can’t keep up alone. Who holds a key, who’s staying when, what needs fixing, what it cost and who paid — one record the whole family can see. Hire a caretaker and their reports land in it too.
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 for homeowners, always. Works in your browser today.
Keys, stays, supplies, upkeep. One record.
The lake house, the cabin, the place in Florida, the house a parent can’t keep up alone.
Written down in one place, most of it stops being a worry.
Everyone sees the calendar. Nobody wonders who’s there.
Your sister books the Fourth in March. Your brother sees it the same day, and takes Labor Day instead. The neighbor with the spare key is on the list, so the plumber gets in without a phone tree.
- Who holds a key, and who can let someone in
- Stays on one calendar the whole family sees
- Open-up and close-down lists anyone can run
Flag it once. It lands on the next visit.
The gutter is pulling away. You photograph it in October; it’s on the list with the photo until someone marks it done. Propane, coffee filters and salt are low, and whoever arrives next knows.
- What needs restocking, on one list across every home
- Repairs flagged with a photo and followed to done
- What the home costs, in one place, when you want it
Hire one. Their reports land here.
Angie checks the house on Tuesdays. Her photos and her flags show up on the record as she takes them, and her invoice is built from the visits — so nobody argues about what was done.
- Invite a home watcher, cleaner or handyman in a tap
- Every visit: checks, photos and flags, as they happen
- Their invoice comes from the visits on the record
Improvements and upkeep, kept the way the accountant wants them.
Log a cost when it happens — the new roof, the dock repair, the propane, the cleaner’s invoice — and say who paid. Improvements build the home’s cost basis; operating costs split among the family the way you agreed; and at the end of the year the whole ledger is one export, not a shoebox.
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, Venmo or a check at Thanksgiving.
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 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.
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.
From sign-up to square, in four steps.
- 1
Set up your home
Your name, your family’s name, the place. Two minutes, no card.
- 2
Add who holds a key
The family, the neighbor, the cleaner. Each gets a sign-in, sees the home, and nothing else.
- 3
Book stays, flag upkeep, log costs
One calendar, one list of what needs fixing, one ledger of what it cost and who paid — improvements kept apart from upkeep, toward the cost basis.
- 4
Invite your caretaker
A home watcher, cleaner or handyman works right in the record. Every visit lands with photos; their invoice comes from the visits.
Free for homeowners. Always.
Your home’s record costs your family nothing, for as many people as hold a key. If you hire a caretaker, their invoice is the only bill, and it comes from the visits on the record. The $19 on the pricing page is what a caretaker pays past three client homes — never you.
Your home
Everything the record holds. Everyone who holds a key.
No card, no trial, no seat count
- Keys, stays and the calendar the whole family sees
- Supplies and upkeep, flagged once, followed to done
- The ledger: improvements and operating costs, who paid, the cost basis, one export
- Your caretaker in the record: every visit, photo and flag as it happens; their invoice from the visits
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. Nothing to install. Save it to your phone’s home screen and it opens like an app.
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.
Plain answers for homeowners.
What families ask before they set up the home.
Is it really free?
Yes, for homeowners, always — no trial, no card, no seat count. House Matters is paid for by the caretakers who run their business on it, and only past their third client home. Your record costs your family nothing.
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?
Works in your browser today. The House Matters app for iPhone is on its way. 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 for homeowners. Your caretaker’s invoice is the only bill.
Start freeWorks in your browser today. The House Matters app for iPhone is on its way. Sign in with your email or mobile, no password to remember.
Look after homes for a living? House Matters is for home watchers, cleaners and handymen.