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HomeFix Calendar

Six questions about your actual house turn a 70-task library into the short list that applies to you, at the times of year it applies.

What it's for Reach for it when Your first ten minutes Getting more out of it The limits
What it's for

It isn't a skill problem. It's a knowing-when problem.

Nobody handed you a schedule when you got the keys. So you find out what a house needs the expensive way — the water heater that rusted through because sediment sat in the tank for nine years, the AC that died in July because nobody rinsed the condenser coil.

That's not a skill problem. It's a knowing-when problem. HomeFix answers six questions about your actual house and turns a 70-task library into the short list that applies to you, at the times of year it applies.

Reach for it when

You don't know what you don't know.

You've just bought a house and don't know what you don't know. Or you've been in one for years with a vague sense that things are going unmaintained. Or you're planning to sell eventually and want a maintenance record you can hand a buyer.

Your first ten minutes

Set it up once, properly.

  1. Answer the six setup questions honestly.
    Septic or sewer, pool or no, heat type, roof age, and so on. Getting these right is the whole product — wrong answers give you a checklist for someone else's house. Guess if you must; you can change them later under Settings.
  2. Read the list it builds.
    It'll be shorter than you feared. Most houses have around fifteen to twenty things that genuinely recur.
  3. Set your reminder time.
    Pick an hour you'd actually act on — Saturday morning beats Tuesday at 2pm.
  4. Add it to your home screen.
    This one matters more than for the other apps: reminders only work if HomeFix is installed. Left as a browser tab, it can't notify you about anything.
  5. Enter your appliances.
    Model, serial, install date, warranty. Fifteen minutes with a phone torch and the labels on the back. You will want this the day something breaks and a technician asks.
  6. Look at the replacement reserve.
    It converts your roof, water heater and HVAC into a monthly number. It's usually sobering and it's the most useful screen in the app.
Getting more out of it

Turning a to-do list into a document.

Log tasks as you finish them
Even the small ones. The completion log is what turns this from a to-do list into a document — the thing you show a buyer, an insurer, or an appraiser to prove the house was looked after.
Export once your appliances are in
That file is worth more than the app.
Honest about the limits

What it doesn't do.

Fourteen days free, then $25 once for Pro — no subscription, nothing to cancel.

Your data lives on the device you're using, so your phone and your laptop keep separate records and neither syncs to the other. Export anything you'd hate to lose.

Reminder behavior varies by phone and operating system; installing to the home screen gives you the best shot at reliable delivery.

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