Chapter I of VIII · Home Overview
The essential facts about your home
The plain facts about the property, construction, condition, and contacts, in one place instead of scattered across memory and old email.
The homeowner problem
Homeowners get asked the same basic questions again and again, by a new agent, an insurance adjuster, a contractor bidding a job, a future buyer. The honest answer is usually “I’d have to check.” The year the roof went on. The exact square footage. What the HOA requires. None of it is written down anywhere a homeowner can put their hands on quickly.
What Home Handoff remembers
Every Home Passport opens on Home Profile, the plain facts about the property, kept current in one place:
- Address, parcel, and core property information
- Year built, square footage, bedrooms, bathrooms, stories, and lot size
- Construction details, foundation type, roof type and age, exterior materials
- Major improvements and additions, with dates
- Current condition, as recorded at handoff
- Important contacts: agent, HOA, utility providers, insurance
- Home Passport completion, how much of the record is filled in
A realistic example
A homeowner is on the phone with an insurance agent who asks when the roof was last replaced and what it’s made of. Instead of guessing, they open Home Profile in Your Home Manual and read it straight off the record: architectural shingle, replaced March 2019, permit on file.
Upstairs, a painter asks for the exact wall color in the primary bedroom. Home Profile has the paint brand, code, and finish, recorded the day it was painted. When a plumber asks who installed the water heater, that’s there too.
Why the history matters later
Home Profile is the foundation the rest of the Home Passport builds on, every system, document, and maintenance record connects back to the same facts. A complete profile makes insurance renewals faster, gives contractors the starting information they need before they arrive, and gives a future buyer or appraiser a credible, dated record of what the home is, not a guess reconstructed from memory at closing.
Action
Open Home Profile to see exactly what’s recorded for a property today.