We look after a small number of Kiawah houses for owners who are away most of the year. One number to call, the same people at your door each visit, and a written record of everything done in your absence. Repairs are arranged, supervised and priced before they begin — never sold to you.
Our Register holds 150 companies across 35 trades. Every one works on Kiawah, holds 4.0 or better across its public reviews, and pays nothing to appear.
Nothing about the house has reached you since November. That is the part owners describe — not something that went wrong, but wondering what is quietly going wrong inside it, and having no way to know.
Four things come for a house left empty here, and they come on a schedule.
Oak pollen coats everything, and a closed house holds the moisture behind it. Mold does not need a leak — it needs a shut house and a warm week.
Water finds the one lifted shingle. A week later nobody has been up the drive, and a repair has become a claim.
A supply line splits in an empty house and runs until someone opens the door. It is the most expensive thing that happens here.
A dehumidifier that stopped in March. A condenser losing charge. A weeping valve behind a cabinet, doing its work slowly.
Six standing responsibilities. None require you to be on the island. None wait for you to ask.
We walk the house on an agreed interval and read it the way a coastal house has to be read — temperature, humidity, and every place salt air and standing water do their work first.
Cooled and dehumidified ahead of you, aired, stocked, water on and proven. You should find nothing that suggests it had to be arranged.
A weeping valve, a condenser losing charge, a dehumidifier that stopped in March. Found while it is still a repair rather than a claim.
We are on the island. After a named storm or a hard freeze we walk every house we hold and send you what we found before the day is out.
We book the work, meet them ourselves, and stay in the house until they leave. No one is given a code, a key, or a room to work in alone.
The person who walks your house is the person who answers. Not a dispatcher, and not a different face each visit.
Keys and codes are held in a logged safe by one custodian. Every entry is recorded with the date, the time and the reason — including ours.
Most companies on this island that watch houses also sell the labor. The same company finds the fault, quotes the repair and bills the hours, and you are taking its word on all three.
We keep no crew waiting for work.
What we are paid for: a visit on the interval we agreed, whether or not anything is wrong. A written note and photographs the same day. Trades met at the door, and the house never left open. A price agreed with you before a tool comes out of a truck. One monthly fee, which does not move when your house needs work.
What the trade is paid for: the roof, the condenser, the valve, the pest company — billed to you at what they charge us, with no markup, no referral fee and no cut. Chosen from the 35 trades on our Register, none of which pay to be on it.
Owners ask whether we can just fix it, and the answer is yes — with one line held. We book the company we would call for our own house, meet them at the door, stay while they work, and pass on the invoice at what they charged us. What we will not do is put our own people on your roof and bill you for the hours.
Not a text confirming we came. What was checked, what was found, what has already been set in motion, and photographs of anything worth seeing. It reaches you the same day, and it is the only thing you have to read.
In a sentence. The house is dry and sound. Two shingles have lifted on the north slope; Baker Roofing is booked for Thursday at eight, and we will be there to let them in.
Nothing that needs you.
We have been the owners who weren’t there. For more than twenty years we kept a second home in Paradise Valley, and for the last six, one here on Kiawah. We know what it is to love a house you reach a few times a year, and to wonder in February what is quietly going wrong inside it. We have also spent more than twenty years owning service businesses — technology companies and consultancies among them. Hiring crews, holding them to a standard, and answering the phone at seven on a Friday evening. We learned which companies show up and which ones only promise to. Kiawah is home now. Vellamore is those two halves of our working life brought together — the service we spent twenty years wishing someone would offer us.
Vellamore is owned and run by our family. Bonnie and Brian lead it; our daughter Riley runs it day to day, with her sisters Hannah and Campbell alongside her, and in time our son Barrett will join them. No head office, no franchisor, and no outside owner who could sell your relationship to someone else. The same family next year, and the year after.
A walk-through with you, or with whoever knows the house best. Systems, shut-offs, quirks, and the trades you already trust.
A visit on the interval we agreed, every time you are away, with a written note and photographs after each one.
We bring in the right company, meet them at the door, and tell you what it will cost before the work starts.
Most of this work is uneventful. The reason you are hiring anyone is the day it isn’t, so here is what that day looks like.
Water, fire, an open door, an alarm we cannot account for. One of us leaves for the house immediately, and you hear from us from the driveway — not afterwards.
Anything that gets worse by tomorrow: a condenser down in August, a ceiling stain, a tree on the roof. Made safe, photographed, priced, and written up before the day is out.
Everything else. It goes in the note, with what we recommend, what it costs, and what happens if it waits.
If we cannot reach you, we make the house safe first and account for it after — up to the standing figure you set when we begin, and to a second contact you name. After a named storm we walk every house we hold in a fixed order, and you are told where yours is in it before the storm arrives.
35 kinds of work, 150 companies, each with its number and what its customers say. Not one of them pays to be on it, and it is yours whether or not we ever look after your house.
A preview. It is working here — search it and open a company. The full file opens this fall, and we will send it to you then.
Every company works on Kiawah, holds 4.0 or better across its public reviews, and is one we would call ourselves.
The company booked for you and met at the house, rather than a number handed to you.
Nobody pays to appear. No fee at any stage, no sponsored placement, and no referral cut from any company on it. It is the list we keep for ourselves.
Last verified 11 Aug 2026 · 150 companies · 35 trades
All 150 companies with their numbers, the day it opens. One email. No list, no follow-up.
Paint codes, filter sizes, shut-off locations, warranty dates, vendor history and every visit ever made, kept in one place and never thrown away. The house remembers, even when the people change — and an owner who sells hands over twenty years of record with the keys.
Paint codes, filter sizes, shut-off locations, warranty dates, vendor history. Everything the next person through the door needs to know, and everything you would otherwise have to remember.
The note, the photographs and anything flagged — the record we keep, not a summary of it.
The quote reaches you with the evidence behind it. One tap, and nothing is spent on your house before that.
A visit before you fly in, a trade booked, the refrigerator stocked. It reaches the same people who walk the house.
Care begins at $525 a month. Most Kiawah houses fall between $650 and $825, depending on the size of the house, its systems, and how often we are in it.
Work we bring in — the roofer, the electrician, the pest company — is billed at what they charge us. We do not mark it up.
If yours is not here, leave your name and we will answer it on the phone. The full scope and the prices are written out in public.
Three short groups, and only the email address is required. The rest takes about two minutes and means we arrive at the first conversation already knowing something about the house, rather than spending your time on questions we could have asked here.
One of us will be in touch, however you ask us to. Twenty minutes, and if the house is not right for us we will tell you so on that call — we would rather look after seven houses properly than eight badly.
This reaches our family and no one else. No mailing list, and nothing shared with anyone.
Prefer to talk now? 843-619-2346
Your Kiawah house, looked after while you are away. One number, the same people, and a written record of every visit.
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