Santa Fe · Eldorado · Tesuque

Your house, lived in while you’re gone

One sitter, one house at a time, never more. Lights on, mail in, pipes checked, animals fed, and a text every evening.

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What house sitting actually means here

I stay in the house. I do not drop by twice a day and call it sitting.

Every night, in residence

I sleep at the house for the full engagement. An occupied home does not get broken into, and a frozen pipe gets caught in an hour rather than a week.

Animals in their own home

Cats, dogs, chickens, an elderly horse once. Fed on your schedule, medicated if needed, and never boarded away from the place they know.

Plants and drip lines

Interior watering by your notes, and I will run and check the drip system — Santa Fe summers punish an unattended garden in about nine days.

Winter watch

Thermostats monitored, faucets dripped below 20°F, roof and vigas checked after snow, and a shoveled walk so the house does not look empty.

Mail, deliveries, contractors

Mail and packages in daily. I will let in a scheduled contractor and stay with them, and I will refuse an unscheduled one.

A nightly text

Short, same time each evening, with a photo of whichever animal is being least cooperative. Silence from a sitter is the thing you should never accept.

Rates

Flat nightly rate for Santa Fe County. Half rate for the arrival day, no charge for departure morning.

Standard night

$95/night

House, mail, plants, and up to two animals.

Additional animals

$12/night

Beyond two, per animal, per night. Livestock quoted separately.

Long stay, 21+ nights

$78/night

Snowbird and sabbatical rate, billed monthly.

Meet and walkthrough

Free

An hour at the house before you book. Free, and I bring a checklist you keep.

Clients

“We came back from six weeks in Portugal to a house that smelled like a house, not like a closed-up house. Also the cat did not punish us, which was new.”
Bill & Teresa H. · Eldorado · 2025 and 2026
“A pipe let go in the guest bath on a Tuesday night. They had the water off in four minutes and a plumber there by nine the next morning. I found out afterward.”
Renata C. · Casa Solana
“Licensed, bonded, insured, and turned up with a printed checklist at the walkthrough. That was the whole decision.”
Doug M. · Tesuque

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Insured to $2M through Pet Sitters Associates, bonded, background-checked every January, and happy to hand you three local references before you tell me anything about your house.

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