How helping out became a job
I have lived in Croatia for six years. What began as a move turned into something else fairly quickly.
It started when neighbours left in the autumn and needed someone to look at the roof after a storm. Then came the friend whose pool pump failed in July while he was sitting at home abroad. Then his friends. At some point I had a bunch of keys in a drawer that needed a list.
What stood out was that it was always the same thing underneath — not cleaning or mowing, but the feeling of having no control from a thousand kilometres away. A dripping pipe is a two-minute job in March and a renovation in June. The only difference is whether somebody looked.
„Most of the damage I have seen here was not a catastrophe. It was small things nobody noticed for nine months.“
Mathis, founderThe favours became a registered business because there was no other way: anyone who instructs tradespeople, holds keys and makes decisions in an emergency needs insurance and a contract. We put both in place before we took on the first client we did not know personally.
What has stayed from those early days: we still look after every property as if it belonged to someone we might run into at the bakery. That limits how many houses we can take on — and how far our area reaches.
