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The manual your house didn’t come with

Know what your home needs and when, get reminders you can snooze, and keep a record of everything you’ve done — without a contractor marketplace or a spreadsheet you’ll abandon by March.

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Free plan, no card. Guidance only — not an inspection or a guarantee. Every suggested task is yours to edit, move, or delete.

A preview of your home screen — what’s due, and what’s next.

The first year

Nobody hands you a maintenance schedule at closing

You get keys, a garage door opener, and a folder of paperwork. What the house needs from you — and when — you’re expected to already know. HomeOwners turns your address into a plan you can keep up with, so the small stuff stays small.

No one told you

The house came with appliance manuals, not a schedule. The timing is the part nobody explains.

Found out the hard way

Most owners learn a system needed attention at the moment it stops working.

The background hum

“What am I forgetting?” is a bad thing to carry into a Saturday.

How it works

Plan. Remind. Complete.

A simple loop designed for intermittent use—especially on your phone when you’re already at the house.

  1. 01

    Build your plan

    Enter your address and get a rules-based starter plan tailored to common home systems and seasonality.

  2. 02

    See what’s due

    Home shows overdue and upcoming tasks in one glance. Email reminders deepen the habit next.

  3. 03

    Check it off

    Complete, snooze, or skip—then keep a clear history of what you’ve done.

What you get

A short list for your house — not a second job

  • Opens to “what’s next”

    Overdue and due first, so you can re-orient in about five seconds.

  • A record you can show someone

    Every completed task, dated. Useful when a warranty claim, a builder, or a buyer asks what’s been done.

  • Guidance you control

    Every suggestion is editable. We tell you when something is a professional’s job, and we don’t pretend to be one.

Why HomeOwners

What this is, and what it isn’t

Approach

Knowing what to do

On your own: A generic checklist written for every house in America

HomeOwners: A plan for the systems your home actually has

Keeping up

On your own: Calendar reminders with no instructions attached

HomeOwners: What’s due, plus how to do it and when to call someone

Proving it was done

On your own: Receipts in a drawer and your best recollection

HomeOwners: A dated record — the thing warranty claims and buyers ask for

Finding help

On your own: Searching at 9pm with water on the floor, or a marketplace that sells your address

HomeOwners: Save the pros you already trust. We don’t take a cut and don’t sell your details

Austin, Texas

Turn surprises into scheduled work

You’re not buying repairs. You’re buying the end of being caught out by something you didn’t know was your job.

Which path to show

Showing what a year of upkeep costs for each system.

  • Heating & cooling

    $140 to $400 a year

    Filter monthly, tune-up before each season

  • Roof

    $0 to $600 a year

    Twice a year, and after hail

  • Foundation & drainage

    $240 to $470 a year

    Watch during dry spells, gutters seasonally

  • Irrigation

    $0 to $200 a year

    Seasonally, backflow tested yearly

  • Water heater & freeze

    $20 to $250 a year

    Flush yearly, pipes before winter

Both paths are drawn to the same scale, so the bars are the numbers rather than a flourish. Upkeep won’t stop a system reaching the end of its life — it changes the odds of getting there early.

A year of Club+

$99

Money back you can verify

$175
Austin Energy pays this for an AC tune-up
$35–$105
A month, for one sprinkler leak you fix
5–15%
Less energy your AC uses, with a clean filter
Free
Austin Water will check your irrigation system

Years you may gain

A water heater lasts 8–12 years. Reaching the far end puts off a $1,200–$2,800 replacement by about 4 years.

Industry rule of thumb — not ours

1:4Every $1 of maintenance put off costs about $4 to deal with later.

A facility-management rule of thumb, from commercial buildings rather than homes.

Past that, upkeep lowers the chance of an early failure — the leak that reaches a ceiling, the slab that starts to move. We don’t put a number on that, because no source we trust can.

How these numbers were calculated

We separate returns by how certain they are. Dollar figures come only from agency or utility publications, and each one carries its own conditions — a rebate you claim once every three years is not an annual return, and we don’t present it as one. Service life appears for one system only, because it is the only one where a manufacturer attributes part of the range to maintenance. Everything else is described without a number.

Scope: Austin, Texas only. Last updated August 5, 2026.

Each figure, and what it depends on

$175 — Austin Energy pays this for an AC tune-up
A rebate per system, on a tune-up that runs $70–$200. Once every three years per system, up to five systems. Your home must be 10 years or older, and the system out of manufacturer warranty and under 15 years old. A participating contractor has to do the work and file the claim. Funding is limited and first-come. Austin Energy
$35–$105 — A month, for one sprinkler leak you fix
The EPA puts a 1/32-inch irrigation leak at about 6,300 gallons a month. Priced at Austin Water’s published residential tiers. The range depends on which usage tier those gallons land in — $5.57 to $16.52 per thousand. It excludes the tiered minimum charge and any wastewater effect, both of which would push it higher. City of Austin / Austin Water
5–15% — Less energy your AC uses, with a clean filter
The Department of Energy’s figure for replacing or cleaning a dirty filter. A share of what cooling costs you, not of your whole bill. We don’t convert it to dollars, because we have no sourced Austin cooling-cost baseline to convert it with. U.S. Department of Energy
Free — Austin Water will check your irrigation system
A city check-up that finds leaks and broken heads for you. For customers who used more than 20,000 gallons in a month. Austin Water
8–12 years — Water heater & freeze
Manufacturers credit annual flushing and anode-rod replacement with reaching the upper end of that range. Water chemistry, usage, and installation quality matter too, so maintenance is one factor among several — not the only one. Rheem Manufacturing
1:4 — A facility-management rule of thumb, from commercial buildings rather than homes.
Widely cited across the maintenance industry, and the worked examples are schools and warehouses — a $60,000 roof repair becoming $240,000 of mould remediation. We found no primary study behind it and nothing homeowner-specific, so treat it as industry convention rather than a number about your house. It is not our calculation and not a promise.

Why other systems show no lifespan number

Heating and cooling has a published median service life, but no source we found separates that life into maintained and neglected. Roofs are the same. A slab has no service life at all. Rather than estimate the gap, we leave those without a figure.

  • These are planning figures, not quotes, and not a promise of what you’ll get.
  • Maintenance improves the odds and the lifespan. It can’t rule out every failure.
  • Maintenance won’t stop a system reaching the end of its life — a 25-year-old roof still needs replacing.
  • Rebate and utility programmes change. Check current terms before you count on a figure.
  • HomeOwners provides guidance only. It isn’t a home inspection, a warranty, or insurance.

Sources

Pricing

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No service contract and no marketplace. You’re paying for the plan and the reminders—not for someone else’s labor.

Billing interval

Free

A solid maintenance plan for your home, built from proven rules.

$0

Free on monthly or annual billing.

1 member · 1 home

What you get

  • Rules-based plan built from your address
  • Due and overdue tasks in one queue
  • Complete, snooze, or skip — with notes
  • Maintenance history you can look back on
  • Save the pros you already use
  • Email remindersIn development
  • One home per account.
  • HomeOwners doesn’t vet or endorse the pros you save.

Club+

A smarter plan grounded in your property’s own details.

$12.95/month

Billed monthly.

Up to 3 household members · 1 home†

Everything in Free, plus

  • Property details filled in from your addressIn development
  • AI-assisted plan, limited to a reviewed task libraryIn development
  • Priority on new planning features as they ship
  • † Three people in the same household, sharing one home — not three separate homes. Household sharing is on our roadmap and isn’t available yet.
  • Features marked In development are part of our product plan and aren’t available yet.
  • If property data or AI is unavailable, your plan falls back to the rules-based version.

Guidance only—not a home inspection, warranty, or insurance. Every suggested task is editable, and you can cancel at any time.

Trust & privacy

Built to be honest about what we can—and can’t—promise

  • Guidance, not guarantees

    A plan you control, not an inspection, a warranty, or a safety certification. When something needs a professional, the task says so.

  • Your address stays private

    We use property details to build your plan. Your address isn’t public and isn’t sold.

  • Save your own pros

    Keep the contacts you already trust. We don’t vet or endorse them, and no one pays us to appear here.

  • Edit anytime

    Disable, reschedule, or rewrite tasks so the plan fits how you actually live.

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