Scheduled, documented checks of your cottage or second home while you are away. A local, bonded crew walks your property inside and out on a fixed checklist, weekly or bi-weekly, and sends you a photo report the same day. Serving Collingwood, Blue Mountains, Wasaga Beach, and the rest of southern Georgian Bay.
From $59/month with monitoring. Visit plans and bundles available.
Built for owners whose property sits empty more than it sits full.
January, minus 22 overnight, and your furnace stops
Nobody is there to hear it. The interior temperature slides for two days, a supply line freezes, splits, and thaws. By the time anyone opens the door in March, the water has been running for weeks. This is the standard Georgian Bay insurance claim, and it is preventable with a visit schedule.
Nobody checking
Problems compound for weeks. Your insurer asks for the visit log your vacancy clause required, and there is not one.
With home watch
The failed furnace is found on Tuesday's visit, you get a phone call within the hour, and the dated photo log sits ready if you ever need to prove compliance.
We build your visit schedule
Weekly or bi-weekly checks, matched to your insurance requirements and how long the property sits empty.
The same local crew checks your property
Interior and exterior, on the same checklist every visit. They know your cottage, your quirks, and your shutoffs.
You get proof, not promises
A same-day photo report after every visit, plus a real phone call, not just an email, if we find something wrong.
The same checklist, every visit, so this week's report is comparable to last week's.
Many Ontario cottage policies require a check-in every 48 to 72 hours during the heating season while the property is unoccupied. The requirement lives in your vacancy clause, and after a frozen pipe claim, your insurer will ask who was checking and when. Our dated, photographed visit log is that answer. 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 and then confirm the specifics with your broker.
A visit tells you the property was fine on Tuesday. ChaletGuard, our 24/7 sensor monitoring, tells you it is still fine on Thursday at 3am: temperature, water leaks, and power, with a live phone call within 15 minutes on critical alerts. Home watch visits plus ChaletGuard is the pairing most of our away-all-winter owners run, and it is why our home watch starts at $59/month instead of a per-visit surprise.
Collingwood-based
Owner-operated from Georgian Bay. Your home watch visits are done by locals, not a franchise dispatch.
Photo-documented
Every visit produces a dated photo report. If it is not documented, it did not happen.
Bonded + insured
Every team member who enters your property is bonded, insured, and background-checked.
Home watch is the checking layer. When you want the same team to also fix what the visits find, handle spring opening and fall closing, and coordinate trades, that is full property management. Most owners start here and bundle up after the first winter of reports.
Home watch is scheduled, documented in-person checking of a home that sits unoccupied: a cottage, chalet, or second home. On every visit we walk the property inside and out on a fixed checklist (heat, water, roof, entry points), photograph what we find, and send you a same-day report. It exists so small problems like a failed furnace or a slow leak get caught in days, not discovered in spring.
We do. Cottage Care Company runs weekly and bi-weekly winter checks across Collingwood, Blue Mountains, Wasaga Beach, Thornbury, Meaford, Clearview, and Stayner. Winter is exactly when unoccupied cottages fail: frozen pipes, dead furnaces, and roof snow load do their damage while nobody is there to notice.
Yes, that is the core of the service. Most of our home watch clients are away from November through April, or travel for weeks at a time year-round. You pick weekly or bi-weekly visits, and the schedule runs whether you are in Toronto, Florida, or overseas. You see every report the same day the visit happens.
Many Ontario cottage policies require a check every 48 to 72 hours during the heating season while the property is unoccupied, and the exact requirement lives in your vacancy clause. Our visit log gives you dated, photographed proof of compliance. Read your policy or our guide on winter check-in requirements, then ask your broker whether monitored sensors change the required frequency.
Home watch is the checking layer: scheduled visits, documentation, and an alert if something is wrong. Full property management adds the doing layer: maintenance, seasonal opening and closing, contractor coordination, and emergency response through one team. Most clients start with home watch and ChaletGuard monitoring, then bundle up once they see the reports.
Collingwood, Blue Mountains (including Craigleith and Thornbury), Wasaga Beach, Meaford, Clearview, and Stayner. If your cottage is anywhere in southern Georgian Bay, we most likely cover you. If you are on the edge of the map, call and ask.
Full-service cottage management: one local team for monitoring, inspections, seasonal turns, and emergencies.
24/7 IoT monitoring — temperature, humidity, leaks, power, and air quality alerts.
Bi-weekly inspections, 30-point checklists, photo reports, and contractor coordination.
