Home watch: someone checks your house while you're away.
A Wisconsin winter is exactly when an empty house gets into trouble — a furnace quits and the pipes freeze, a small leak runs for weeks, a storm peels back shingles and nobody knows. Home watch is a real person from the ReThink team checking on your vacant home on a schedule while you're away, documenting each visit, and getting problems fixed before they become disasters. One form, one call back.
- Vetted pros
- Insured
- Documented
- No pressure
From quick fixes to bigger jobs.
What a home watch visit covers:
- Interior + exterior walk-through on a set schedule
- Heat, freeze & frozen-pipe checks (critical in winter)
- Leak, water & sump-pump checks
- Storm & security checks (doors, windows, damage)
- Photo-documented visit reports
- Coordinating any repairs we find
Don't see exactly what you need? Just ask — if it's part of your home, we can usually help.
What this covers.
Winter is the whole point
The nightmare scenario in Northeast Wisconsin is simple: the furnace fails in January, the house drops below freezing, a pipe bursts, and it runs for days into an empty home. A scheduled home watch catches a cold house before the pipes do — and gets a vetted pro out fast when something's wrong.
You get a report, not just a promise
Every visit comes with a documented, photo-backed report, so you actually know your home is fine instead of just hoping so. If we find a problem, we tell you and coordinate the same vetted, insured pros we use across ReThink to fix it — with your approval first.
- Photo-documented visits
- Freeze & leak alerts
- Repair coordination
- Flexible schedules
More than a house-sitter
This isn't someone crashing on your couch — it's a trained eye from a general-contractor-backed team that knows what a house does when it sits empty in our climate, and what a small problem looks like before it becomes a big one.
Common problems we handle.
If any of these sound like your home, we'll get the right pro on it.
- You're a snowbird gone for the Wisconsin winter
- You travel for weeks and worry about the house
- You own a second home or cabin that sits empty
- A house on the market is vacant between showings
- Your insurer wants the home checked while it's unoccupied
Three steps to a handled home.
No commitment, no pressure — just a clear path from your request to a documented visit.
- 01
Tell us the job
Fill out the short form — the work, your address, and when works for you. Takes two minutes.
- 02
We call you back
A real person follows up within one business day to confirm details and match you with the right vetted pro.
- 03
We coordinate everything
Scheduling, the on-site visit, follow-up, and a plain-English summary after the work is done.
Your whole home, handled by one team.
From a leaky faucet to a full project, we coordinate the right vetted, insured pro and document every visit — so you stop chasing contractors and your home stays ahead of its problems.
Vetted & insured
Every pro is vetted and verified, with a certificate of insurance on every job.
Documented
A clear, plain-English record and summary after every visit.
One point of contact
You talk to us, not five strangers — we run the whole job start to finish.
Home watch questions, answered.
Straight answers — and if yours isn't here, just ask.
How often do you check the house?
What happens if you find a problem?
More questions? See the full FAQ.
Serving Green Bay & Brown County.
Based in the Green Bay area, coordinating home services across the surrounding communities.
Let's get your home watch project moving.
Tell us what you need and we'll take it from here — one form, one call back.
- Response
- Within 1 business day
- Coverage
- Green Bay + surrounding areas
- Emergencies
- Call (920) 600-6912