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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