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Meet Your Home Team:
The People Who Already Know Your Home

Your realtor, lender, inspector, and contractors already know your home better than almost anyone. The problem is keeping track of them when you actually need help.

Think about the people who already know your home better than almost anyone.

Your home inspector spent four hours crawling through every corner of it. Your lender knows its exact financial picture. Your realtor knows the neighborhood, the market, and the history. Your insurance agent knows what's covered and what isn't.

These people have context about your home that would take a new contractor or advisor hours to build. They've already done the work.

And yet, for most homeowners, these relationships scatter after closing day. The inspector's number is buried in an email from 18 months ago. The lender's contact info is on a business card in a junk drawer. The contractor who fixed your dishwasher last year? You're pretty sure his name started with a J.

The Problem With Starting From Scratch Every Time

When something goes wrong with your home, you need help fast. A pipe bursts at 10pm. Your AC dies on the hottest day of the year. You find water stains on your ceiling and don't know who to call first.

In that moment, you do what everyone does: you Google it. You read reviews that might be fake. You call three strangers and hope one of them is honest. You explain your situation from scratch to someone who has never seen your home.

This is how most homeowners experience every repair. Start from zero. Trust strangers. Hope for the best.

Meanwhile, there are people who already know your home, already have context, and already have a relationship with you. They're just hard to find when you need them.

What Is a Home Team?

Your Home Team is the group of professionals who are connected to your home. Not a random list of service providers -- the specific people who already have context about your property.

In BTLR, your Home Team lives in one place. Everyone who's connected to your home is visible, organized, and reachable:

Your lender

The person who financed your home. They know your loan terms, your equity position, and can advise on refinancing or HELOCs when the time is right.

Your realtor

The person who helped you buy (or will help you sell). They know your neighborhood, your home's market position, and what buyers in your area care about.

Your insurance agent

The person who knows what's covered, what isn't, and what you should update as your home changes.

Your inspector

The person who literally documented every system in your home on the day you bought it. Their findings are your home's baseline.

Your contractors

The plumber, electrician, HVAC tech, and handyman who've already been inside your home and done work there. They have history with your systems.

Why Context Matters More Than Reviews

A 5-star Google review tells you that a contractor did good work for someone else, in a different home, with a different problem.

A contractor who's already been in your home knows where your shutoff valves are, what brand and age your systems are, what was fixed last time and what was deferred, and the quirks of your specific setup.

That context saves time, prevents misdiagnosis, and builds trust over repeated interactions. The plumber who fixed your kitchen sink last year and is now looking at your bathroom doesn't need to re-learn your plumbing. They already know the layout, the pipe material, and the water pressure.

What matters

This is how wealthy homeowners have always operated. They have “their guy” for everything. Not because they're picky, but because repeat relationships with context are dramatically more effective than one-off transactions with strangers. BTLR makes that possible for everyone.

How Your Home Team Gets Built

Your Home Team grows naturally as you use BTLR:

1

At signup -- If your lender or realtor invited you to BTLR, they're already on your Home Team from day one. No setup required.

2

As you add documents -- When you upload your inspection report, the inspector's information gets captured. Same with insurance docs and mortgage paperwork.

3

As you get work done -- When you complete a repair and note who did the work, that contractor joins your Home Team. Next time you need similar work, they're one tap away.

4

By invitation -- You can invite any pro to your Home Team directly. Your HVAC tech, your electrician, your handyman. They get a link, and they're connected.

What Your Pros See (And What They Don't)

Privacy matters. Your Home Team can see things that help them serve you better, but they can't see everything.

What they can see

Your Home Health Score (the number, so they know your overall position)

Their role in relation to your home

That you're an active, engaged homeowner

What they cannot see

Your individual findings or repair details

Your financial information

Your other Home Team members' details

Your maintenance habits or specific scores

You're in control. Your team is there to help you, not to monitor you.

The Home Team Advantage at Sale Time

When it's time to sell, your Home Team becomes incredibly valuable.

Your realtor already has years of context about your home. They don't need a fresh walkthrough to understand its strengths. Your maintenance history is documented -- every repair, every completed task, every contractor who's done work. Your Home Health Score tells the story of a well-maintained home. Buyers and their agents can see at a glance that this home has been cared for, not neglected.

The pros who know your home best are positioned to help you get the most from the sale. Not strangers you hired last week. The team that's been in your corner the whole time.

Now in Beta

Build your Home Team.

The people who already know your home are your best asset when something goes wrong. Keep them in one place and you'll never start from scratch again.

Set up your Home Team

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