Property Preservation & Estate Property Services

One call for the part nobody volunteers for.

Preservation and upkeep for houses nobody is living in — vacant, foreclosed, between tenants, or waiting on a family decision. Inspections, securing, cleanout, grounds, and repairs, with photographs after every visit.

Anne Arundel · Howard · Carroll County
Insured$1M liability · $1M umbrella
Licensed contractorMHIC #140219
24–48 hoursOn routine orders
PhotographsAfter every visit
Who we work for

Preservation work, ordered three different ways.

The work is the same either way — a house that needs looking after and nobody on site to do it. What changes is who is asking and how it gets ordered.

Servicers & field services

Inspections, initial secures, winterizations, debris removal, and recurring grass cuts on vacant and pre-foreclosure inventory.

Orders by phone, email, or your own vendor portal — we work in whatever system you use. Routine work completed in 24 to 48 hours, photo documented in the format the order requires.

Investors & landlords

Properties sitting between tenants, mid-renovation, or held while a deal comes together. Standing check-ins, turn work, and the trades arranged.

One local number instead of five, and a report you can forward.

Families & estates

A house in probate, in a trust, or waiting while a family decides. Cleanout, sorting, and upkeep at whatever pace they set.

Unhurried, and nothing gets thrown out without a family sign-off.
Where it starts

A walkthrough, and a plain list of what the house needs.

Forty-five minutes on site. Roof, water, systems, structure, grounds, exterior. What comes back is a written list — what needs attention now, what can wait, and what isn't worth doing at all, with photographs attached.

There is nothing to sign and nothing to buy. If nothing else ever comes of it, the list is still yours. Out of state or out of town? The house gets walked and the report comes to you.

The walkthrough is for owners and families deciding what to do with a property. Servicers, vendors, and anyone working from a scope already written: call or email the order in and it gets scheduled directly.

45 minOn site, start to finish
$0No cost, no obligation
NothingTo sign, then or after
A room packed floor to ceiling with belongings before a cleanout
Room by room, boxed, hauled, and documented.
What gets handled

Everything a vacant house needs, and nobody there to do it.

Routine preservation on a schedule, one-off work orders, and the heavier estate work when a whole house has to be emptied. None of it is legal work. All of it has to happen, and it usually lands on whoever lives closest.

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Inspections & check-ins

A walk of the property on a standing schedule or a single order — ceilings, basement, doors, windows, roofline, yard — with dated photographs sent after every visit. Built for owners and servicers with no way to lay eyes on the place.

Working from a ladder at the roofline of a vacant house

Securing, lockbox & access

Lock changes, one lockbox and one code, boarding where it is needed, and a written record of who has been in the house and when. Codes change the day the work is done, so access ends when the reason for it does.

Winterization & utilities

Heat set or water shut and lines drained, hose bibs opened, gutters cleared, and a written list of what to keep on and what to shut off. A frozen pipe is the most expensive preventable thing that happens to an empty house.

Debris removal & cleanout

Trash-outs, single rooms, or a whole house sorted room by room — boxing what the family keeps and hauling the rest, donated where it can be and disposed of where it can't. Usually the biggest thing standing between a property and whatever comes next.

A room full of belongings sorted before hauling

Grounds & curb upkeep

Mowing, edging, leaves, and snow on a recurring schedule, so the property doesn't start drawing notice from the neighbors, the HOA, or anyone watching for an empty house.

Repairs & maintenance

Roof, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, updating, and deferred maintenance, contracted through our licensed contractor partners. Arranged, scheduled, and managed, with one person accountable for the result.

A room rebuilt and drywalled after repairs

Estate & probate support

Working alongside the family, the personal representative, or the attorney: keepsakes set aside, donations receipted, and the house brought to a condition where it can be listed, rented, or handed over.

A family kitchen left as it was, waiting on decisions
Photographs every visit Dated, sent after the work, yours to forward.
Written scope before work starts Nothing gets done that wasn't agreed to first.
One point of contact The same person on the phone and on site.
Licensed contractor of record Home improvement work by DACS Painting, LLC · MHIC #140219.
24 to 48 hour turnaround On routine orders — inspections, secures, cuts, winterizations.
Fully insured $1M general liability, $1M umbrella, commercial auto, and workers’ compensation. Certificates on request.
Take this with you

Before the first hard freeze.

A frozen pipe is the most expensive preventable thing that happens to an empty house, and it is almost entirely avoidable. This is the whole list. Use it, whether or not you ever call.

Vacant property, winter

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Checked items stay ticked on this device. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Steven on site inside a house stripped back to the framing
The same person on the phone and on site.
How it goes

Three steps, and you can stop after any of them.

1

Send the request

Two minutes. Address, what's going on with the property, and when works. Work orders can come straight through by phone or email.

2

The property gets walked

Usually within a week, sooner if something is actively leaking. You don't have to be there.

3

You get the list

Written, plain, and yours. What happens next is entirely up to the family.

From the field

Recent work, straight from the page.

Jobs in progress, before and afters, and the occasional reminder about a property nobody has checked on since fall.

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Request a walkthrough

Whenever the family is ready.

No cost, nothing to sign. Every request gets an answer, usually within one business day.

Or call or text (443) 477-4441.