Homeowner guide

Getting started

Create an account with your email by clicking Sign up in the top right of any page. After signing in, you'll land on your Dashboard, which shows:

• Tasks due — what's coming up or overdue across all your assets
• Properties and Vehicles you've added, with a health score for each
• To-do — onboarding prompts to add your first property or vehicle (these disappear once you have at least one of each)

The left sidebar is your home base: Dashboard, Providers (people who can help), Tasks (your global to-do list), Properties, and Vehicles.

Add a property

From the sidebar, go to Properties → ＋ Add a home. The form is a single page:

1. Type your address in the search bar. As you type, Google Places suggests real addresses — pick yours from the dropdown.
2. The map below confirms the location, and we automatically capture street, city, state, ZIP, and coordinates.
3. Give the property a Name — a friendly label like "Main Home" or "Beach House". This is what shows up in your sidebar and breadcrumbs.
4. Click Submit.

Add a vehicle

From the sidebar, go to Vehicles → ＋ Add a vehicle. The form auto-fills most fields from the VIN:

1. Pick a Name (your label, like "Mom's Subaru" or "Commute car").
2. Enter the License plate and Registration state.
3. Type or paste the 17-character VIN. As soon as the field reaches 17 characters, we look it up against the free NHTSA database and auto-fill Year, Make, and Model.
4. Click Add vehicle.

Year, make, and model are read-only — they always reflect what the VIN decoder returned, so there's no drift between what's typed and what your car actually is.

Tasks

Tasks are individual maintenance items with a due date — "Change HVAC filter", "Rotate tires", etc. You can see them in three places:

• Sidebar → Tasks: every open task across all your assets, filterable by asset, provider, service, and status.
• Asset → Tasks tab: only the tasks for that one property or vehicle.
• Dashboard → Tasks due card: a quick count linked to the same page.

Tasks are usually generated automatically from Schedules, but you can add manual ones from the per-asset Tasks tab with ＋ Add task.

Schedules

A schedule is a recurring rule that creates tasks for you — for example, "filter change every 3 months" or "annual inspection every March". To set one up:

1. Open a property or vehicle and click the Schedules tab.
2. Click ＋ Add schedule.
3. Pick the service category and scope (what kind of maintenance), set the cadence, and optionally assign a preferred provider (or mark it as DIY).

The system generates tasks on the schedule's cadence — they'll appear in your Tasks list as their due dates approach.

History

The History tab is your maintenance log — every task you've completed for that asset, with the date, cost, and provider. Use it to:

• Look up the last time you serviced something ("when did I last change the oil?")
• Show the next homeowner a documented record (great at resale)
• Track total maintenance spend per asset

To log work, click ＋ Log work from the History tab. On mobile, the button drops below the title so the address subtitle isn't crowded.

Co-Owners

Sharing access with a spouse, partner, or family member is two steps:

1. They sign up for their own account.
2. From the Add a property or Add a vehicle form, they enter the same address or VIN. Since the asset is already registered, they're prompted to request co-ownership.
3. You approve the request from the Co-Owners tab on the asset's detail page.

Custom labels

Wherever Scarsdale.Life shows your asset's name — sidebar, breadcrumbs, page titles, dashboard cards — it uses your per-account label (the Name you typed when adding it). The address or year/make/model becomes the subtitle.

You can change a label any time from the asset's Edit details button. Other co-owners' labels are independent — they only see their own.