A home maintenance app to make your life stress-free

It’s every homeowner’s dream to keep their house in tip top condition, increase home value, and prevent expensive repairs. So, how can you manage it all? The solution lies in utilizing a convenient home maintenance app that systematically and effortlessly tracks your most significant financial investment – your home. After all, why should home maintenance and home management overwhelm you? 

In today’s world, simplifying tasks and eliminating hassles is key. Home automation has evolved from a mere novelty to an essential part of our lifestyle. Almost all of our home appliances are now smart – from smart refrigerators and Alexa for ordering groceries and playing music to mobile-controlled home lights.

It’s no surprise that home maintenance is also embracing this technology-driven approach. And that’s why Kukun brings to you Kukun My Maintenance™ – a valuable tool for homeowners and property managers alike. The app streamlines and simplifies the process of managing and organizing household upkeep tasks.

Using a home maintenance app to make your life easy

With the fast-paced nature of modern life, it’s easy to overlook essential maintenance activities such as changing air filters, inspecting electrical systems, or scheduling routine inspections. Kukun My Maintenance™ provides timely reminders and notifications for these tasks, ensuring that nothing falls through the cracks. 

Additionally, such an app can store important information about your home-related maintenance needs, facilitate communication with service providers, and offer helpful DIY project tips. This app is undoubtedly an indispensable companion for every homeowner. It simplifies home maintenance, promotes efficiency, prolongs the lifespan of home systems and appliances, and ultimately helps save time and money.

How to track your home maintenance?

Kukun’s My Maintenance™ helps homeowners keep track of all home maintenance tasks that need to be done on a regular basis. You can easily schedule the projects in the calendar and even get in touch with the service providers. 

For example, you can set an alert for rain gutter cleaning, examine the weatherstripping and caulking on doors and windows, or check attic insulation by scheduling it for a specific time and date. What’s more, Kukun will recommend what other tasks should be done, and when. The app will track the work and remind you when it’s due. 

From your roofing and flooring to home appliances such as refrigerators, washers and dryers, and dishwashers – every home-related issue is taken care of. You can personalize your home maintenance schedule based on your needs and preferences.

What’s more, the mobile app is free and can be downloaded for both ios and Android devices.

What are the advantages of this home maintenance app?

Your home is one of the biggest financial investments. You’d want your dream house to be safe, secure, and well looked after. Maintaining your house is more than just taking care of its structure, fixtures, and fitments. It’s also a great way to increase its longevity. And, its monetary worth.  Regular upkeep also helps prevent expensive repair bills in the future. 

Since My Maintenance is an essential part of Kukun iHomeManager, it provides homeowners with tons of benefits and special features. You can:

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Stay on top of your home maintenance

Through the app, you can easily add maintenance tasks to your calendar, keep a record of your service providers, and even send notifications to them when required.

This way, your home maintenance will never slip to the bottom of your priority list. And, you can run your home smoothly – step by step.

Protect your home value

As you keep your home up-to-date and well-maintained, you can impress potential homebuyers and improve your home’s resale value too. What’s more, it helps you keep a record of the expenses for each repair/replacement task. You can manage your home remodeling budget seamlessly – staying on top of tasks that need to be completed. 

Get your property condition score

You get access to a proprietary Property Condition Score based on the condition and age of your house, home inventory, the age of its components, value-enhancing parameters in your area, neighborhood comps, and market forces.  

You even get recommendations for home improvement projects that will fetch you the most return on your investment (ROI).

And, as you make upgrades and repairs to your home, you can watch your score go up!

Get a home value forecast 

You get a prediction for your home’s value for the next five years as you update your property over time. This will help you stay informed about your home’s resale value and its desirability in your neighborhood.

Read more: Home value forecast explained

How to use the special features of My Maintenance?

Keeping your house in top condition is as easy as signing into the Kukun app. All you need to do is enter your address, add some basic information about your home and its remodeling history, and set up your home maintenance alerts. 

You can:

• Get a reliable property value score 
• Get a personalized dashboard or maintenance plan upon signing in
• Create and schedule different home maintenance tasks in your calendar according to time and date
• Store information about your service provider
• Send notifications to your service provider

All these can be done simultaneously – at the click of a button! Home improvement was never this easy. Simply identify your home’s maintenance goals and the app will do the rest.

How does Kukun My Maintenance™ work?

The app is designed to help homeowners plan a maintenance schedule in a systematic way.

• You can add and schedule maintenance home projects as well as home repairs on a calendar. 
• Get suggestions of home maintenance tasks that need to be done periodically, while also defining your own tasks.
• Receive periodic reminders of upcoming maintenance tasks – helping you plan your maintenance schedule.
• If you want a professional contractor of your choice to be contacted for a task on your maintenance calendar, you can enter the contractor’s details. The app will remind you to send an email and to call the contractor.
• The iHomeManager dashboard will also give you recommendations for ROI-adding improvements, calculate home renovation estimates, and provide you with contractor suggestions based on your home’s location.

Last thoughts

Maintenance is an ongoing process that continues throughout the year. According to a recent survey by Consumer Reports, the average amount of money that people spend on house maintenance is about $1,290 per year. Now, that’s an amount that cannot be taken lightly. 

Using Kukun’s home maintenance app will make homeownership hassle-free and easier.

All you have to do is follow three simple steps:

• Enter your home address
• Sign in with your email account
• Start managing your home maintenance

Remember that our homes are only as good as we keep them. Regular home maintenance is a great way to ensure that there are no sudden, large, costly repairs. It also gives you insights into how your home is aging, allowing you to plan home renovations more efficiently. Keep in mind that a well-maintained home is sure to fetch top dollar should you ever decide to sell it.

Written by Ramona Sinha. December 27, 2022

Ramona is the Senior Content Writer for Kukun. This experienced blogger uses simple and succinct words to decipher the complex phenomenon called life. She has written articles covering a broad range of topics, such as real estate, lending and mortgage, finance, business, taxation, home designs, home improvement projects, decor concepts, and more. An avid traveler, she’s a digital nomad at heart and an animal lover from the depth of her soul.