Year-round care for Wasaga Beach homes and cottages whose owners are not there full-time: scheduled property checks with photo reports, 24/7 leak and freeze monitoring, maintenance coordination, and seasonal openings and closings. This is property care, not personal home health care, one local team watching the building so you do not have to drive up to check.
From $59/month with monitoring. Bundled packages available.
One team, one point of contact, and documentation after every visit.
Weekly or bi-weekly interior and exterior walkthroughs on a fixed checklist, with a same-day photo report and a dated visit log your insurance broker can read.
Temperature, water leak, and power sensors watch the property between visits, from $59/month, with a live phone call within 15 minutes on critical alerts.
When a check or an alert finds a problem, we dispatch and supervise the trades, you approve the work, and everything lands in one report and one invoice.
Spring opening and fall closing on documented checklists, storm-triggered snow clearing, lawn care coordination, and pressure washing before the season starts.
The monitoring layer is ChaletGuard, and the full scope of what we manage is on the property management service page. This page covers how it works in Wasaga Beach specifically.
You are in the GTA or further, the property is at the beach, and the drive up Highway 26 does not happen every week. We are your local set of eyes, on a schedule, with proof.
If you winter in Florida or travel for months, “home care while you are away” means someone checking the furnace, the pipes, and the roof, not personal support services. That property care is exactly what we do.
Wasaga Beach is a two-sided town: around 25,000 permanent residents, and a property base that swells every summer along the beach areas from Allenwood Beach in the east to Wasaga Sands in the west. Both sides of that split own buildings that sit empty for weeks at a time, and empty buildings near the bay fail quietly.
Many Ontario cottage and seasonal-home policies require a check every 48 to 72 hours during the heating season while the property is unoccupied. The requirement sits in your vacancy clause, and after a burst-pipe claim the first question is who was checking and when. Our visit log answers it with dates and photos. If you are not sure what your policy demands, start with our guide on how often an Ontario cottage needs to be checked in winter.
Freeze risk
Wasaga sits in the Georgian Bay snowbelt. A furnace failure in a January cold snap freezes supply lines in a day or two, and nobody hears it happen in an empty house.
Water damage
A slow leak under a sink runs for weeks between owner visits. Checks catch what sensors miss, and sensors catch what happens between checks. We run both.
A neighbour with a key costs nothing and documents nothing. A private caretaker is one person, on their schedule, with no backup in February. A property management company gives you a crew, a fixed checklist, monitoring between visits, and reports you can hand to an insurer. We wrote up the honest comparison, including when a caretaker is genuinely the better fit, in cottage caretaker vs property manager.
ChaletGuard monitoring from $59/month. Maintenance plans with scheduled inspections from $349/month. Seasonal openings from $249 per visit depending on property type. Bundling monitoring, checks, and seasonal turns saves 15 to 20 percent, and everything is month-to-month with no long-term contracts. Full details on the pricing page.
We are based in Collingwood, fifteen minutes down Highway 26, and cover the full stretch: Wasaga Beach from the east-end beach areas to the west end, Stayner, Clearview, and the Blue Mountains. For seasonal cottage services in town (openings, closings, and cottage care), see our Wasaga Beach cottage services page.
Actually local
Owner-operated from Collingwood. When something goes wrong at the beach, we are minutes away, not a dispatcher two hours south.
Photo-documented
Every visit ends in a dated photo report. You see the furnace reading, the sump, and the roof line without leaving Toronto.
Bonded + insured
Everyone who enters your property is bonded, insured, and background-checked, and every entry is logged.
It depends on what the property needs. ChaletGuard monitoring starts at $59/month, maintenance plans with scheduled in-person inspections start at $349/month, and seasonal work like openings and closings is priced per visit (openings from $249 depending on property type). Most Wasaga Beach owners bundle monitoring plus checks plus seasonal turns, and bundling saves 15 to 20 percent versus booking each separately. Full numbers are on our pricing page.
Bi-weekly is standard, weekly on the Full Service plan, and we set the schedule to match your insurance requirements and how long the property sits empty. Every visit follows the same checklist and ends with a same-day photo report, so this week's condition is directly comparable to last week's.
That is one of the main reasons owners hire us. Many Ontario policies require a check every 48 to 72 hours during the heating season while the property is unoccupied, and the requirement lives in your vacancy clause. Our dated, photographed visit log is the evidence. Confirm the exact frequency with your broker, and ask whether monitored freeze and leak sensors change what your policy demands.
Our core service is private homes and cottages: properties that sit empty between your own visits. We are not a booking or guest-management agency. If you rent occasionally, we can still handle the property side (checks, monitoring, maintenance, turnover-day coordination), and guest coordination is available at $75/visit on most plans.
You get a phone call, not just a line in a report. We document the issue with photos, propose the fix, and once you approve it we coordinate the trades and verify the work. Small things (a tripped breaker, a blown fuse on the heat trace) we handle on the spot and note in the visit log.
Both. Wasaga Beach has a large year-round population, and plenty of our checks are on permanent homes whose owners travel, winter away, or simply want documented eyes on the property. The service is the same: scheduled visits, monitoring, and one local team to call.
