I built this because nothing on the market fit the job.

I run short-term rentals in Santa Fe. Before Casa Inspect, my turnovers looked like every other operator’s: a group text with a cleaner who didn’t use the app, a separate text to a handyman, photos of damage living in three different message threads, and a recurring spreadsheet I updated when I remembered.

I tried the existing tools. Breezeway is solid for big property managers but feels heavy for an owner-operator. Properly is photo-driven, but the workflow assumes a cleaner who’s comfortable taking direction from an app — mine wasn’t. Turno, Operto, and the rest each had a piece but none of them were built by someone whose phone goes off at 11 PM with “the heater isn’t working.”

So I built Casa Inspect for myself. Room-by-room inspection from a phone, photo evidence on every flagged issue, and SMS routing that gets the right text to the right person. Cleaners get cleaning issues. The handyman gets repair issues. Owners get the all-clear when everything passes. I kept the surface area small on purpose — Casa Inspect is nota property management system. It doesn’t handle pricing, messaging, or guest comms. Hostfully, Guesty, and Hospitable already do those well. I built the missing piece for operators.

Casa Inspect is what I use to run my own properties every day — that’s not changing. The full app is free for everyone: no gated features, no per-property fees, no nagging upsells. To keep it sustainable I added a pay-what-it’s-worth contribution: $0 to $50 a month, your call. If Casa Inspect saves you a frantic late-night phone call, kick in what feels fair. If money’s tight, $0 is genuinely fine — same product, same support.