The small jobs, without the contractor paperwork.
Property managers and owners take you on as a handyman, with no contractor's bond asked. Jobs come with the address and who lets you in, and you log the hours.
Free for handymen. No card, no contract, and no license needed to sign up.
Most compliance software wasn't built for a tap washer.
It assumes everybody on a roster is a licensed trade company. You fix the things a building needs fixed every week, and the paperwork should match the work.
Asked for a bond you'll never hold
A roster built for contractors marks you incomplete over documents your work doesn't need.
Jobs by text message
A unit number, a time, and no idea who has the key.
Hours on the back of an envelope
And a phone call a week later about what the fourth hour was for.
Not sure where the line is
Every state draws its handyman limit somewhere different, and some work sits outside it entirely.
Asked for what a handyman needs
When a property manager takes you on as a handyman, the certificate of insurance and the bond come off their list. Your W-9 stays on it, because that's how you get paid.
The job comes with the door
The address, the time, who lets you in with their first name and mobile, and photos of the problem when it came from an inspection.
Hours logged day by day
Each day's hours with a line on what was done. Running past the estimate? Ask for more hours before you work them, in one tap.
The limit is checked before you're sent
Your client is warned when a job runs past your state's handyman limit, and you can check any job yourself.
From sign-up to the first job.
Sign up yourself, or open the link a property manager sent you.
Sign up, or open the link you were sent
On the sign-up form, pick Subcontractor or handyman. If a property manager invited you, their link already has your details and you only choose a password.
Add your W-9
Add your liability certificate too if you carry one; property managers like seeing it. Nothing else is needed to be taken on as a handyman.
Get taken on as a handyman
The property manager or owner sets that on their side. It covers the everyday trades: painting, drywall, flooring, tile, carpentry, cabinets, doors and windows, gutters, decks and fences, landscaping, cleaning, and small plumbing and electrical repairs.
Confirm the time
Accept the job, confirm the time or propose another, and see who lets you in and where to meet them.
Log your hours
Send each day's hours. The property manager approves them or sends them back with a reason, and nothing is paid that they haven't seen.
Where the handyman line is.
Every state draws it differently. This is the short version; the limits page has every state.
- Most states set a dollar limit per job. Labor and materials together, and it ranges from a few hundred dollars to tens of thousands.
- Splitting a job doesn't get under it. The whole job counts, not each invoice.
- Some work is outside every exemption. Plumbing, electrical and HVAC beyond small repairs, gas, and structural work need the trade license whatever the amount. Work that needs a permit usually voids the exemption too.
- Some states license nobody, and some exempt nobody. In the first, your city or county may still have rules. In the second, unlicensed work isn't exempt at any amount.
- Not legal advice. Check with your state's licensing board before relying on any figure.
Everything else that comes with it.
One login, however many property managers and owners you work for.
Job requests
Each work order arrives with its scope, the rate or price and the address. Accept or decline it, and ask for a change when the scope is wrong.
Scheduling
Confirm the time a client proposed, put forward a different one, or say it doesn't work, in one tap.
Your calendar
A month across every client, with your days off on it. Mark a day off and work isn't booked onto it.
Getting in
Who lets you in, where to meet them, and their first name and mobile, on the job and on the work order.
Photos before you go
When a job comes from a move-out inspection, you see the rooms and the photographs of what needs fixing before you load the van.
Hours
Log hourly work day by day and ask for more hours when a job runs long. Approved hours are what's owed.
Quotes
Price a job when a property manager asks for quotes. Nobody else sees your number.
Directions
Open the job address in Maps from where you're standing.
Your QR code
Hold it up on site and the person in front of you has your details without spelling out an email address.
When a job needs a license after all.
Which trades your state licenses, who administers it, and what clients ask for whatever the state says. Sourced and dated, one page per state.
Take the small jobs on properly.
Sign up free, add your W-9, and the next property manager who sends you a job can take you on as a handyman.