All in One Home Management Solution - HomeZada

Hi all, Beth Dodson here with HomeZada. Just wanted to touch base with you and see how everyone's doing, first of all. So hello to everyone. And if you have any comments, please feel free to leave them before, during, or after this video. But one of the things I wanted to talk to you about was an all-in-one suite solution and the value of it. A lot of people have stated to us that HomeZada has a lot going on in it. And it does. I'm gonna just put it out there. It does. And one of the things that people seem to want is one component of managing their house or something else, but, but not a full solution. And I wanted to tell you the philosophy of why an all-in-one suite was designed at HomeZada and the value it can provide you long-term as a homeowner. So a long time ago, when I thought about this idea of HomeZada, and I apologize, I'm talking with my hands. When I thought about this idea of HomeZada, I knew exactly what I wanted. And maybe not everybody else wanted the same thing, but I'm gonna tell you why I thought that having a full, complete suite was important. I had looked on the market for over 10 years for a solution that could help me manage every piece of data about my house in one place. I was tracking a home inventory in a spreadsheet and it had no pictures. So I had, yes, at the time, for those in a different generation, printed photographs of my home in one section of my house. I had a spreadsheet of all the different items and my estimated cost of those items in a separate section of my house and on my computer. I then had a file cabinet full of receipts for all these different items that I had about my house because I still had some of these. Lo and behold, a lot of these receipts faded, so they were irrelevant. It was just empty paper in a drawer, which just is frustrating to me. The second thing that I had was 3 boxes full of owner's manuals. Another frustration. And this was in a completely separate place in my house. So we're already up to 3 different places plus computers of all the documents just for a home inventory. Then I had a completely separate file cabinet in a different room full of all of my real estate documents. I had had some real estate documents. I, um, had had the opportunity— I actually built my house, so I had some pre-construction documents as well as construction documents. So I had a lot of documents as it related to that component of my house as well. So now we're up to 4 different places in my home for all these documents. And yes, this was several, several years ago, so everything was not digital at the time, uh, for those younger generations out there. Um, the next thing that I had was I had a maintenance calendar, but my maintenance calendar was comprised of 2 different scenarios. The first scenario was it was a spreadsheet of all the different tasks I needed to get done and who was going to do it, whether it was going to be myself, my husband, some other individual, another company, whatever. But I had yet another spreadsheet in addition to that. Both my husband and I, because we are the individuals that take care of most of the tasks around our house, had separate calendars. Granted, they were digital and they were electronic. We are longtime users of wonderful electronic calendars and we love them, but we had separate calendars of separate activities that we need to take care of in the house. We didn't always manage all the money as it related to all these tasks. They were just kind of happening, and remembering who did what Was really hard. So I'm now up to still four locations in my house of hard paper documentation, and now I'm into multiple systems to manage all my maintenance. Then we get into projects because even though I built this house, which I told you earlier, everyone's like, "Well, you built the house. Why would you need projects?" So I am of the philosophy that when you build a house or when you buy a house. You may not be able to afford all your updates and all your projects at one time, whether that one time is in the first 3 months, whether that one time is the first 12 months, whatever it is, you may not afford to perform all your projects. So in my house, not only could I not afford to perform all my projects, in one fell swoop, meaning in a short period of time, like let's say 12 months. I also didn't have the time because I work full-time, my husband works full-time, and, um, our hours are kind of long, which we like. But the reality is we just didn't have the time nor the finances to perform all these tasks. And a lot of those tasks were design tasks, some were more remodeling tasks like, um, Uh, yard. So we have a different component in the yard, so we had to get the yard organized, both the front yard, the backyard. I do live in California, um, so where I live in California, it gets extremely hot in the summer. So I also had to manage a little bit about, uh, building a pool. So all of a sudden I have all these new expenses. I have to manage this over a significant period of time and My projects never end, um, in my house. Um, but it's taken me about 10 years to actually manage all these different projects. And now I have yet another set of spreadsheets to manage these projects. And I know I'm spinning this tale long, but I want you to understand the impact of an all-in-one solution. So 4 physical locations of home inventory items. Paper documents, 3 different areas of maintenance documents in different people's possession, and now I have all these projects on separate spreadsheets. And then in addition to that, I had a drawer full of either coupons business cards or contracts that I had secured before of all the contractors that I've worked with. And I'm particular— I'll say that— I'm particular about the contractors I work with. I like good quality contractors. I like contractors that get their job done timely. I like responsive contractors. And you work well with me, I work well with you. It's kind of simple, but I also like quality work. And so I had a list of people that I'd already worked with, but it wasn't in a spreadsheet. It was in a drawer full of paper. So now I've got this end of it, this type of data. So I've got all this data about my house. I am paying my bills, my monthly expenses on my house. Those were printed, now they're electronic. But those were printed statements I would get in my mail every month, and I would have to review each month what those expenses were, make adjustments if I needed to accordingly, and then I had to memorize my account numbers or just throw the paper out and just hope I get the account number again on the next statement. So I've just shared with you, when you manage your house and there's so many different components that are tied to each other You have all these different locations for all of these different components in managing your house. As you can imagine, when I just told you all of this detail, and I can keep going on and on about all the different ways I use Humzada, which I'm going to do that over the next couple of weeks, but my frustration was at an all-time high. I didn't know where I could have a consolidated set of data about the finances of my house. And it was super frustrating when I was in my office and I needed to access a paper document. That was also extremely frustrating because I couldn't take care of the activity I needed when I need to take care of it because the documentation that I had was in my home. So needless to say, I have all these frustrations. I'm trying to deal with finances, documentation, um, accessing and moving through processes quickly because I love being efficient, and I'm not being efficient at all. That's what it boils down to. I was completely inefficient. I couldn't find anything in my house. My husband couldn't find anything. God forbid anything ever happened to me, he wouldn't know where half the things are. He'd have to go find them and figure them out. And I could never get everything done easily. So when HomeZada came around, and I'd waited 10 years for this product in the format that it's in today, um, when we finally decided to build this I was very adamant about having an all-in-one solution or an all-in-one suite of solutions or applications. And the reason being is because I have been personally affected by an inventory item, which could be a piece of equipment or an appliance or some other component needs one, care, so maintenance, and 2, may need to be repaired, fixed, or replaced, which turns into a project. So I've got all these inventory items that I want to document the amounts that they're— the value that they are, how to take care of them, what I need to do to take care of them, whether they cost money or not, and then— or time. Then I may need to replace them. And all of this has happened to me in many of the years that I've owned multiple houses, but I wanted to be able to track that as an ongoing process. And I'm a firm believer in that oftentimes as humans, we all think about the one thing that is really important to us, and yet the long-term process or the effects of what this one thing is could have a long-term effect on the actual item or the scenario in your home. I gave you an example of, let's say, a hot water heater. I live in California. We do have really hard water. You— it is recommended that you flush your hot water heater. Once a year because of the sediment that builds up. If you do not do that, you actually risk replacing that hot water heater sooner than you need to. That happened to me. I'm not originally from California, so I didn't understand the concept of flushing a hot water heater. I didn't have to do that where I lived before, and I had to replace a brand new hot water heater in 2 years. It's very frustrating because all of a sudden I just paid this expense. Why am I paying it so soon? The next thing that I also take a look at is now that I've got this replacement hot water heater because it turned into a project, how do I actually take that project and make it a new inventory item? So HomeZada is designed as a complete full lifecycle, an all-in-one suite. About all the different aspects of your house. If you perform a project, for instance, let's just say you did a bathroom remodel. You perform a project, you do this bathroom remodel, you have all the latest and greatest, it's beautiful. You want to make sure you update your home inventory and make sure that your insurance company is aware of your new bathroom remodel because you want to be covered for the new bathroom remodel. Not the previous one, and that's an example of how when you started a project and it turns into an inventory to stay current, you may start at maintenance, and you may say that I need to take care of my house and the items in my house. But then you may need to share with someone else those maintenance activities or those maintenance. Items, those items that need maintenance. Excuse me, those items that need maintenance with another third party. Now getting them this information as quickly as possible before they enter your home is also a value that you can take with HomeZada. Starting with the maintenance, giving them the details of the actual inventory item. Maybe it's a stove. Maybe it's a television. Maybe it's Ventilation ducts, air filters—all of that can turn into tracking equipment, appliances, items, tasks associated with a physical structure inside your house. So I'm just a firm believer that an all-in-one suite is really, really important in the long term. I know a lot of us think that we're only going to focus on maintenance, or we're only going to focus on. Um, inventory, or we're only going to focus on this. I'm just trying to shed light on the fact that an inventory aspect of the house can turn into maintenance tasks, which then can turn into projects, and then ultimately a brand new inventory item. You can start anywhere. Maintenance, same thing, could turn into a fix-it project, which Which then turns into an inventory item. You can start a project, it turns into an inventory item, then you get into maintenance. But there is a life cycle of how a house can be managed. And each house is completely different. Each homeowner is completely different. All the different things inside the house are completely different. There's no one house anywhere that is exactly the same as anyone else's. So keep that in mind when you are looking at the long-term effect of managing your house, and especially the long-term effect of continuing to main— excuse me, continuing to maintain value in your house so that when you want to sell it, that value is still there, and hopefully it has improved. I guess that's it for today. So I hope this has helped you understand why HomeZada is designed the way it's designed and that we believe in the all-in-one suite because it does have an impact on the entire house. Please let us know your comments. Tell us what you think. We'd love to hear from you. We definitely engage. We definitely respond. And if you have any questions, please also connect with us. Have a great day.