We're Dalton and Selena, a husband and wife who look after a small number of homes all year. When you're here we focus on cleaning, and while you're away we walk through it every visit, looking for problems.
Membership limited to ten homes
We'd love to walk your home with you first and see if we're a good fit for each other.
We let ourselves into a member's home on a routine visit and the home was far too cold. The furnace motors had failed.
We reached the owner that day. The motors were replaced before the home froze.
Nobody had been in that home for weeks. Nobody would have been for weeks more.
Most people up here have a cleaner in the summer and someone checking on the house in the winter. That's two sets of people, each seeing half of your home. With us it's just the two of us, all year. After a few visits we know your home the way you do, and we notice when something's different.
The radiator in the northeast bedroom runs warm. For this home, that's normal. We'd know the week it wasn't.
Every basement has a smell when everything is fine. We know yours. A new one gets investigated before we do anything else.
A ceiling stain the size of a coin, that wasn't there last visit, matters more than one that's been there for years. Only history can tell them apart.
Everything else we do, the reports, the thermal camera, the Property Bible, is there to help us know your home a little better every week.
You show us around, we ask a lot of questions, and we all get a feel for whether we're a good fit for each other.
If we are, your home goes on our schedule for the whole year, weekly or every other week. We set your day and text you before every visit.
When you're here, we focus on cleaning, so your time up here is yours. When you're gone, we walk through the whole home every visit looking for anything wrong, and send you photos.
One flat monthly amount, all year. Cleaning, home watch visits and storm checks are all part of it, and if you ever want something extra, just text us and we'll tell you what it would be first. And in July, when it's hard to get anyone up here, you're already on our calendar.
If we walk into an active problem, we act. We shut off the water at the valve we documented in your Property Bible. We call 911 if it's warranted. We stabilize what a careful person can stabilize, photograph everything, and call you before you have to ask.
A slow drip, a cracked seal, a little stain that wasn't there last week. We'll text you a photo and tell you plainly what we saw, and it's in your report the same day. We're not plumbers, so we'll point you to a good one, and the call is always yours.
When we walk in, we already know where your shutoff is, who your plumber is, and what your basement looked like last week. Most companies arriving at your emergency are seeing your home for the first time.
A lot of vacation home policies have a vacancy clause. After 30 to 60 days empty, coverage can be reduced or denied. It's worth a look at yours.
If you ever do file one, your insurance company will want to know how the home was looked after. Every one of our visits is dated and photographed, so that conversation is a lot easier.
You're not relying on memory or a neighbor's word. You have the record, going back to day one. It's also why the weekly visits matter. A furnace that quits in January is a service call if someone finds it that week, and a much bigger job if nobody finds it until spring.
We're a husband and wife team in Petoskey. We built Great Lakes Stewardship because seasonal homeowners deserve better than a cleaning company that doesn't check the furnace and a home watch company that doesn't clean. One team that does both, and actually cares.
Every visit is us, and only us, never a stranger. You're not trusting a company. You're trusting the two of us, and we take that to heart.
There's something we don't say enough. This work lets us spend our days together, and most married people never get that. Your trust is the reason we do. We're grateful for it every week, and we don't take it lightly.
Dalton & Selena McNeely
You can, and most people do. You just end up with two sets of people who each see half of your home, half the year, and nobody who knows the whole thing. With us it's just the two of us, all year, so we notice when something changes.
It's pretty different. Property managers look after rentals and tenants, and concierge services send whoever's free. We do one thing: the two of us come to your home on a set schedule all year, clean it when you're here, go through it looking for problems when you're gone, and write down everything we see. If you already have a property manager, we're happy to work alongside them.
Weekly or every other week, all year. We set your day based on where your home is, so we're never rushing across the county, and we'll text you before every visit. For a home that sits empty through a Northern Michigan winter, we recommend weekly.
We still come, and we focus on cleaning, so your time up here is spent enjoying it instead of cleaning. If you'd ever like the home to yourselves for a week, just let us know.
Because we want to really know every home. How it sounds, how it smells, what changed since last week. Two people can do that for about ten homes, and we'd rather keep it there than get worse at the ones we have.
No, and we'd rather tell you that up front. We're not home inspectors, HVAC techs or plumbers. We're the two people who are in your home every week, and when we see something, we tell you right away so you can get the right person out.
Yes, and we're glad you asked. We carry general liability and professional liability, on a policy written for home watch. If you'd ever like to see the certificate, just ask and we'll send it right over.
After every visit you'll get photos and a short report in your own Google Drive folder, the same day. The visits where everything's fine too. You'll always know how your home is doing.
No. You sign a short one-page agreement before we start. After that it's month to month, and you can stop any time, with no notice period and no penalty. We'd rather earn it every month.
Just text or call us. We'll walk your home together and see if we're a good fit for each other. If we are, we'll put your home on our schedule and get started.
Want the whole picture? Our guide walks through a visit, what we check and why, and what a year with us looks like.
Read the Stewardship GuideText or call us anytime. We'll walk the home together and see if we're a good fit for each other.
Or call us directly: 231 881 6338