Luxury without the logistics.
Come home to a property that feels like the resort you just left.
Private residence management for homeowners across Michiana. One point of contact for every vendor, every service, and every detail of running a home.
Running a home is a standing management problem. Most people simply never get to hand it to anyone.
The physical work of a home can be hired out. The coordination cannot. Someone still has to know when the furnace was last serviced, which company actually shows up, whether the crew that came Tuesday did the work properly, and what needs to happen before the first hard freeze.
That responsibility does not schedule itself around a career, a family, or a month away. It arrives in fragments, on other people's timelines, and it never fully closes.
Steward & Stone takes it on. We coordinate the vendors, hold the standards, walk the property on a schedule, keep a written record of every system in the house, and send one consolidated statement at the end of the month. You keep the home. We keep the operation of it.
Whenever you have a problem or a task related to your home, Steward & Stone is there to provide the solution. Whether it appeared this morning or has been waiting for months, it goes to one place, and it gets handled.
We are a management firm, not a labor company. We select, schedule, oversee, and hold accountable the trades and services your home depends on. Below are one hundred of them.
The sequence below is the same for every client. It is written down, it is followed, and it does not depend on anyone remembering it.
We walk the property together and learn how the home is used, what already works, which vendors you want kept, and what has been falling through. What we learn there sets the scope of the plan and the monthly fee, which we present to you following the visit. There is no charge and no obligation.
Within a week of signing, we document the property in detail. Every major system is logged with make, model, year, and service history: furnaces, water heaters, sump pumps, softeners, appliances. This profile becomes the operating record for the home.
We introduce each recurring vendor to you and set expectations in person. Every schedule, quote, and approval runs through us. Recurring work is booked at least a week ahead, and no repair proceeds without your approval of the quote.
We return on your schedule and inspect against your checklist, with particular attention to work vendors have already performed. Findings and recommendations are emailed to you after each visit, so you always know the current condition of the property without having to ask.
Vendor invoices come to us, not to you. At the close of each month you receive a single statement listing every service performed, with the underlying invoices attached. Vendors are paid after you are satisfied.
We are headquartered in Elkhart, Indiana, and we deliberately keep our coverage tight. Response time and route density are what make oversight real rather than theoretical, so we serve a radius rather than a set of county lines.
Standard scheduling, standard pricing, and same-day response for urgent situations. This includes Elkhart, Goshen, Bristol, Middlebury, Osceola, Mishawaka, South Bend, Granger, Wakarusa, New Paris, Nappanee, Edwardsburg, Niles, and Cassopolis.
Available, with scheduling and pricing adjusted for travel. Plan availability may be limited. This reaches communities such as Dowagiac, Buchanan, Three Rivers, Sturgis, Shipshewana, Syracuse and the Wawasee lakes, Plymouth, and Warsaw.
The far edges of Elkhart, St. Joseph, Cass, and Berrien Counties fall outside our normal range. We consider these individually, and we will tell you plainly if we cannot serve your home to our own standard.
Clear boundaries protect the quality of the work and keep responsibility where it belongs. These are stated in writing in every agreement.
Steward & Stone was founded and is run by an Air Force veteran who spent a decade maintaining fighter aircraft, work in which a missed step is not a small matter. That standard is the reason this company exists in its current form.
Since leaving the service he has been Six Sigma certified and has spent his career leading cost savings initiatives, managing projects, and running teams. That work comes down to the same discipline a well-run home needs: build the process, write it down, follow it, and improve it. He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and an MBA from the Judd Leighton School of Business at Indiana University South Bend.
In practice that means your home is run on documented standard work rather than memory. The checklists are written, the records are kept, and the same process is followed in month eighteen as in week one. At this stage of the company, the person who assesses your home is the person who manages it.
The first conversation is a complimentary in-home assessment. Tell us a little about the property and we will follow up to arrange a time.
Whatever the home needs, you bring it to us and we provide the solution. We also take on a limited number of homes at a time, by design. If your property is outside our range or the fit is not right, we will say so directly rather than take the engagement.
We will be in touch shortly to arrange your complimentary assessment. If it is easier, you are welcome to call us at (574) 574-8169 or write to info@steward-and-stone.com.