ABOUT 6,225 HOME WATCH

A small business by design.

6,225 is a husband-and-wife operation based here in Tahoe. If you call about your home, you are talking to one of the same two people who will actually be looking after it.

The goal is not to build the biggest home-watch company around the lake. It is to keep the client list small enough that we know the homes, the owners, and the history behind what we are seeing.

WHY WE STARTED IT

Second homes create a very specific gap.

Most of the time, a Tahoe house is simply sitting there doing exactly what it is supposed to do. The problem is the day something changes while the owner is somewhere else.

Maybe it is nothing more than a delivery that needs a person at the house. Maybe a storm came through, a neighbor noticed something, or a contractor says the work is complete and you want someone to look at it. What helps in those moments is not another phone number. It is having somebody local who already knows the property.

That simple gap — between owning the home and being physically here to deal with it — is what we built 6,225 around.

WHAT WE BRING TO IT

Long careers where judgment and follow-through mattered.

One of us spent thirty-five years in the fire service, retiring as a captain and paramedic. The other spent years as an insurance broker managing several hundred client accounts, then ran a large Tahoe restaurant with roughly eighty to a hundred employees before retiring from the industry.

Those are very different careers, but they have something useful in common for this work: paying attention, communicating clearly, keeping track of details, dealing with people directly, and knowing when a situation belongs with somebody who has a different expertise.

About a decade around Tahoe construction.

Our background also includes about a decade of hands-on construction experience here in Tahoe.

That does not make us contractors, inspectors, plumbers, electricians, or HVAC technicians, and we do not present ourselves that way. It does give us a practical eye when something visible does not look right and helps us describe the situation clearly to the owner and the appropriate trade.

Because we do not sell trade repairs, there is no incentive for us to turn every observation into a project.

A SMALL CLIENT LIST

The same two people, from the first conversation forward.

We both do the visits. We are not building a dispatch center where one person sells the service and somebody else you have never met arrives at the house.

Over time, we learn what is normal for the property, who already works on it, which seasonal routines matter, what has changed, and how the owner prefers to handle decisions.

That familiarity is part of the value. A report means more when the person writing it remembers what the house looked like last month.

PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY

If you call, you reach the people who know the home.

There is no call-center handoff and no separate account-management layer. If something needs explanation, you can talk directly with the people who were there.

We raised four children and have reached a point in our lives where we have the time to build this together and be selective about the work we take on. We would rather say no to a poor fit than stretch the business so far that the personal part disappears.

Lakeside Tahoe lodge with mountain setting and private feel — PRIVATE HOMES · LOW PROFILE SERVICE

Rustic Tahoe home in fall among pines — SMALL CLIENT LIST · LOCAL KNOWLEDGE

Well-maintained Tahoe residence in summer — THE HOME STAYS PRIVATE

DISCRETION

A quiet service should look quiet from the outside.

You will not see our names and faces used as marketing on this site. That is intentional. We prefer to introduce ourselves directly when we speak with a prospective client.

We take the same approach with the people we work for: we do not name clients, post their homes, or advertise that a property is being watched while the owner is away.

We use unbranded vehicles so our coming and going does not draw unnecessary attention to the house. Access information is handled carefully, and a confidentiality agreement is available before sensitive property details are shared.

WHAT WE WANT 6,225 TO STAY

Local. Useful. Discreet. Small enough to know the homes we look after.

That is not a temporary starting point while we try to become something much larger. It is the business model.

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