Home Sitting and Visitation

Home Minding
I'll watch your home while you're away: checking for possible pipe or gas leaks, mail and other deliveries, plant care, lights, check windows, perimeter, and doors for locks and possible signs of problems, feeding birds, fish, heat or cooling adjustment, etc. Live-in or daily visitation.

Christmas decorating
I'll decorate your home, inside and out, with your lights, boughs, wreaths, tree ornaments, etc., and take it all down, organize and box it carefully, packed for storage.

Simple Interior maintenance
Interior painting (walls, trim) and cleanup
Toilet repairs (simple)
Water conditioner and furnace thermostat re-timing
Pilot light relighting for gas water heater and gas furnaces

Simple Exterior maintenance
Power washing mobile home skirting, decks and fences for dirt and "moss".
Yard clean up: Leaf raking, weeding, cutting back of dead foliage on shrubbery and perennials, snow shoveling.
Roof raking: removal of heavy snow from roof on mobile homes.

Home Safety
We'll do an analysis of your home for home safety and food safety to avoid accidents and sickness.

Sewing projects
Mending/making curtains, altering hems on curtains
Making pillows and cushions

Moving
We can fit lightweight furniture into our cargo van for small moves.
Packing, unpacking and placement of household contents

Estate Caretaking
Tell us what services you need and we'll make sure your estate is cared for the way you want, and possibly even better.
Staff supervision of your large home, estate, or villa:
Meal planning
Meal preparation
Lawn care
Pool care
Garden care
 
Handy Ande's Business-Minding Services
If you're being deployed for military duty or in need of a vacation of a few weeks to a few months, Handy Ande will run things in your absence ensuring you have an income from your investment.
 
Handy Ande has been a business-sitter for...
1. Today's Interiors, Erie PA
2. Three Bed & Breakfasts in downtown Toronto, Ontario
 
We will accept assignments as...
1. Temporary B & B host
2. Temporary mobile home park manager
3. College dorm "mom"
 
Handy Ande can also provide
pet care and companion care in your absence.


 How trustworthy is Andrea Reynolds? You're hiring a woman who....

1. Was bonded by HomeMinders Home and Pet Sitting Service in Toronto.

2. Doesn't drink or do drugs or have any mental illness.

3. Has been a member of the Metro Toronto Police Community Liaison Committee and the Seaton-Ontario-Berkley Resident Association in an effort to keep her neighborhood safe.

4. Has never been arrested or in trouble with the law.

5. Has never declared bankrupcy.

6. Has a high credit rating (FICO score). (She pays her bills.)

7. Has a perfect driving record of 42 years: no tickets, no accidents.

8. Has handled two home invasions, face-to-face and helped police catch and convict the burglar and put him in jail. (Nothing was stolen from her home, but neighbors had lost valuables in his earlier break-ins.)

9. Was the first to call 9-1-1 when she discovered two house fires (one in Toronto, one in Erie PA). Her quick thinking saved two lives and prevented both homes from being a total loss.

10. Teaches civility, kindness and ethical behavior in business as seen on her web site, www.CrisisBrainstorm.com and has spoken to audiences such as Northern Telecom and hired by such corporations as Coca-Cola and Campbell Soup Co.

10. Was a repeat guest (endorsement) on many radio and TV shows such as Dini Petty, Global News at Noon, CBC News, Breakfast Television, CFRB, AM 640, Morningside with Peter Gzowski, Frost Over Canada with British journalist David Frost.

11. Has been quoted (endorsement) in the Globe and Mail, National Post, Canadian Business, USA Today, Time, etc.

12. Has been entrusted with looking after private homes, businesses and Bed and Breakfast operations with no complaints; left each home immaculate; and saw to it that the business generated income in the owner's absence.

13. Has a degree in Home Economics (Family and Consumer Science) and Marketing and Communications (Kent State University.)

14. Has recently removed a dangerous (abused) dog from another unit in her building, as well as a neighbor's firearms and sharp bowie knives to ensure her and her other neighbors' safety.

15. Has one cat (Casper) who is 11-12 years old and not very active. He is neutered, litter box-trained and come with a large metal, collapsible crate and 32 foot collapsible metal fence to confine him where he can't get cat hair on furniture or carpets.

This is the kind of person you want watching your home or business.
(571) 217-6928

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