Home Watch & Home Care · Sarasota & Manatee
Haven Free℠ is the trusted partner for your home — watching it while you are away, caring for it while you are here, and handling what comes up in between — so the house asks nothing of you but to be enjoyed.
Leave without worry. Return without work.
Why Haven Free
Every owner knows the moment. A storm on the evening news when you are a thousand miles away. A power cut in the neighborhood, and no way of knowing whether the air conditioning came back on. A neighbor with your key, and a favor you would rather not keep asking.
A Florida home is never idle. Humidity works on it, storms test it, systems drift out of tune, and small faults become expensive ones in the months no one is standing in the house.
We take that weight off your shoulders. One person who knows your home, a curated network of licensed local trades, and a written record of every visit — so the house is looked after the way you would look after it yourself, if you were here.
The point is not that nothing happens. It is that none of it reaches you.
The Haven Free Life
Every hour we spend on your home is an hour handed back to you — for the people and pleasures that brought you to the Gulf Coast in the first place.
Family
The grandchildren on the dock, not you on the phone with a plumber.
Friends
We will let the pool service in. You order dessert.
Play
Pickleball at nine, the boat at noon. The filters were changed before breakfast.
Wellness
Morning laps of the shoreline instead of laps around the house looking for leaks.
A Season with Haven Free
A year in the life of a Haven Free home, in four moments. How we handle storm season ›
April
The car is packed and the house is already taken care of. Before you go, we walk it together: the air conditioning and humidity set for summer, the refrigerator cleared, the mail redirected, the outdoor furniture where you want it, and every key you hand us signed for. You lock the door once and drive away without a list.
The only thing you take with you is the trip.
September
A named storm turns toward the Gulf, and you are watching the track from a thousand miles away. Your plan is already on file, so the house is readied the way we agreed. When the weather clears, we visit as soon as it is safe and send you photographs, room by room.
You learn how your home is from us, not from the news.
Any month
You live here most of the year. On the monthly visit your Home Manager changes the filters, tests the detectors, and notices the slow drip under the guest-bath sink before it marks the cabinet. A licensed plumber is arranged, you are told what was found, and that is the last you think about it.
The plumber came. Your tee time did not move.
November
You land, and the house is waiting the way you left it — cool, fresh, the water run, the lights on, a few groceries in the refrigerator. Nothing to fix, nothing to chase, nothing to call about.
You open the door, and the season simply begins.
Illustrative examples of a typical year, drawn from the services described on this site. They are not accounts from individual members.
What We Keep
Six kinds of care, arranged around your home and your year — so there is one relationship to rely on instead of a list of names to manage.
Scheduled visits inside and out while you are away — doors, windows and access, air conditioning and humidity, any sign of water, the pool and the grounds — weekly, every other week, or monthly alongside remote sensors you own. Every visit reported with timestamped photographs.
Hurricane preparation to the plan we agree with you, a check after the weather passes, and the seasonal close-up and arrival readiness — the hundred small settings that make a house ready to leave, or ready for you.
The scheduled care every Florida home needs, on a plan drawn from an assessment of your actual house — air-conditioning and water filters, detector checks, and coordination of your pool, spa, landscape and irrigation providers.
When something breaks, one call. We bring in the right licensed trade, arrange access, confirm the work is finished and report back — with our coordination shown on your monthly statement.
Mail and packages, vehicle starts and battery care, vendor and delivery access, and the errands that keep a closed house running — plus a curated roster of trusted local providers when you want more.
Capital projects designed with Oaks Capital Group, built by licensed contractors under your own agreement, and coordinated by Haven Free — scoped properly, done once, and checked with you before anyone calls it finished.
Our Promises to You
You are handing us the keys to a place you love. These are the commitments every Haven Free membership is built on; the Member Service Agreement sets out the detail.
One named Home Manager who has walked every room with you, knows which valve is which, and can tell from a photograph whether something is new.
A report after every visit, with timestamped photographs, the same day — the good news included, so you never have to wonder.
If something needs your attention, you hear from us right away with a recommended next step. If it does not, it is noted in your report and handled the way you have asked.
Every key and code is logged in a written register and signed for, and every one comes back to you with a signed receipt.
Your plan comes from an assessment of your own home, not a package. We accept no fees or commissions from the trades we bring in, and a place on our partner panel is never for sale.
If we fall short and do not put it right within 30 days of your written notice, you may end the membership with no close-out fee — and your home’s full record goes with you.
The Memberships
All three begin the same way — we walk the house with you and write down what it actually needs. What differs is how much of the year you would like to place in our hands.
AWAY
Leave without worry.
For owners here for the season and gone for the rest of it
HOME
Simply enjoy it.
For owners who live here most of the year and would rather not manage the house themselves
ALWAYS
Never think about it again.
For owners who want the house handled year-round, in both modes
A new coastal build and a twenty-year-old estate under mature oaks do not need the same keeping — so we never pretend they do. Your plan is drawn from the assessment of your own house, and we would rather talk it through with you than publish it. Compare the memberships in full ›
A Note from Our Founder
“The people who trust us with their homes deserve the care I would want for my own — someone who shows up, tells the truth about what they see, and treats the house as if it matters. Because it does.”Jeff “JW” Johnson · Founder
Haven Free began with a simple idea: owning a home here should feel like freedom, not a second job. The way to get there is a partner you can trust completely — one who knows the house, keeps a written record, and tells you the truth.
The Haven Free Promise
One named Home Manager who knows your house. One number to call. One statement a month for our work, with everything written down as we go.
Serving Sarasota County and Manatee County. Questions before you call? Read the answers owners ask for most ›
Building with OCG?
Oaks Capital Group, the design-led residential company behind the OCG Residences, designs every residence to be kept — and every Celebrate commission includes its first year of Haven Free ALWAYS, from the day you receive the keys.
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More time for the grandchildren, the golf, the gallery openings and the long lunches with friends. We keep the house — you simply enjoy it.