The binder, without the binder.

Responsible owners have kept one for decades: the manuals, the model numbers, the receipts, the note about which filter the furnace takes. In Good Repair keeps it for you — across one house or twenty doors — and answers when something starts making a noise.

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Three things, done plainly

Photograph it, and it is catalogued

Point your phone at the water heater. The assistant reads the plate, files the brand, model, and serial, and puts its real maintenance on your calendar. No typing.

A dossier on each thing, not a label

The service manual attached. The filter and the belt by part number. How long this model lasts, what goes first, and what the warranty still covers, counting down.

Straight answers when it breaks

Describe it or show it. You get the likely cause, the steps in order, the part number when there is one, and an honest line about when to stop and call a pro.

Who keeps one

Landlords who manage their own

8 to 25 doors

Built up over fifteen years, running on a spreadsheet and memory. This is the one that remembers which unit got the 2019 water heater, has the detector certifications ready when the city asks, and tells you a year in advance that four roofs come due together.

People who just bought a house

First six months

You have inherited twenty expensive objects and an empty folder. Walk around with your phone for twenty minutes and the folder is full — every machine named, dated, and on a schedule that fits where you actually live.

Short-term rental hosts

3 to 15 units

Wear runs at triple a long-term rental and a dead water heater costs a one-star review. You already spend on operations and you already keep things organised. This is the part that keeps the machines from being the thing that goes wrong.

Anyone who already keeps a binder

A tab per appliance

Fifteen years in the house, the warranty cards in the back, probably a boat or a tractor as well. You will recognise this immediately. It is the same binder, except it can read a model plate and it never loses a receipt.

How it works

You tell us where you live and what kind of place it is. You walk around with your phone taking pictures of anything with a model plate — the furnace, the fridge, the mower, the truck. Each one becomes a page in your notebook, with its own chores on the calendar and its own history underneath.

After that it is quiet. Chores come due, you mark them done, and the next one schedules itself. Every repair you log stays with the thing it fixed, so in four years when the same valve drips you already know what you paid and which part you bought.

What next year costs

Every machine in the catalog has a date it runs out. Put those dates end to end and you get the only number a spreadsheet never gives you: what the next ten years of replacements actually cost, and which single year is going to hurt. No landlord has that. Most find out in March.

It is yours, and you can take it

Catalogue as much as you like, free, forever. Recall notices reach every account, paid or not. And the whole binder exports on any plan — as a spreadsheet, or as one file you hand to whoever buys the place. A notebook you cannot carry out is not a notebook.

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