A note from the caretaker
The house should be held, not checked on.
Stryker Estates looks after private houses at Kūkiʻo for owners who are away most of the year. It isn't a rental operation and it isn't a watch service. It's a standing engagement: the house is monitored continuously, walked in person on a published schedule, made ready before each arrival, and every vendor who touches it is coordinated through one person.
Underneath all of it is a record of the property — each fixture tagged, each manual and service date linked — and a system that works that record around the clock rather than filing it. Between walkthroughs the house is never unwatched. The record is yours. It stays with the house, whoever is looking after it.
— Odie Stryker
Items for attention
What a closed house on the Kona coast does while no one is in it.
These are the standing items on any house here that sits empty for months at a time. None of them announce themselves.
- Termites
- Formosan subterranean termites are treated on this island as a matter of when, not if. The damage runs inside walls and under floors, out of sight, for exactly as long as no one is looking.
- Corrosion
- The leeward coast is salt air and vog. Railings, hardware, condenser coils — anything with exposed metal. It's steady, quiet, and expensive at this level of finish.
- Water
- A slow leak found on next week's walkthrough is a repair. The same leak found on your next arrival, months on, is a rebuild.
- Arrival
- A house that's been closed for four months isn't ready the morning you land unless someone made it ready: systems run, water and air checked, vendors through and gone.
- Memory
- What's installed, when it was last serviced, who to call. On most properties that lives in one caretaker's head, or a folder of receipts. When that person changes, the house starts over.
The engagement
Stryker Systems: scanned once, monitored continuously, managed on the ground.
Three parts. The first is done once. The second never stops. The third is what happens on the ground because of the other two.
The scan
One on-site visit produces a complete digital twin of the house — every room, every system, walkable on any screen. Each fixture in it is tagged and linked to its model, its manual, and its service history. From that day the house has a record that can be worked, not just kept.
The record belongs to you. If you ever change caretakers, it goes with the house, not with us. Nobody has to learn your property from scratch again.
The monitoring
The system runs continuously against the record and the calendar: service intervals, warranty dates, storm advisories, arrival countdowns, vendor follow-through. It notices when something is due, when something has slipped, and when weather is coming, and it raises what needs a person the day it comes up — not at the next walkthrough. It prepares; it never decides. Nothing is dispatched without your approval.
The management
- Walkthroughs
- In person, on a published schedule, photographed and timestamped into the record. The walkthrough confirms what the system has been watching all week; it was never the only set of eyes.
- Arrival
- The house open and running the morning you land, not the afternoon.
- Vendors
- Coordinated through one point of contact — scheduled, met on site, and invoiced at cost.
- Reporting
- A monthly digest, set like this page. If something needs you before the month is out, you hear the day it's found.
Terms of engagement
The terms are the same for every house on the roster.
- Roster
- Kept small, by design. Enough houses to know each one well, and no more.
- Monitoring
- Continuous. The house is watched between walkthroughs, not just during them.
- Pricing
- Quoted per property, after a walkthrough. There is no rate card.
- Vendors
- Invoiced at cost. No markup. The retainer covers coordination.
- Approval
- No vendor is dispatched without your approval.
- Reporting
- A monthly digest by default. The same day when something needs you.
- The record
- Yours. It stays with the house.
- Contact
- A direct line to Odie Stryker. Not a queue.
Sample digest
What a month reads like.
An illustrative month for a house at Kūkiʻo. The figures are examples.
Monthly digest
Sample property
August · 31 days monitored · 4 walkthroughs · 1 item for attention
- Monitoring
- 31 days, continuous. Pool pump service interval reached on the 12th — raised to you that morning, approved, completed on the 24th. Two storm advisories tracked, neither reached the threshold for a prep visit. Nothing else raised.
- Walkthroughs
- 3, 10, 17, 24 August. In person, photographed into the record. Pool and irrigation vendors met on site on the 10th and the 24th.
- Arrival
- In residence from the 29th. House opened on the 27th: systems run, water and air checked, vendors through before you landed.
- For attention
- Surface corrosion on the north condenser coil, noted on the 17th and photographed. Vendor quote attached, at cost. Nothing is scheduled until you approve it.
- Record
- Three entries added: pool pump service, filter change, corrosion note. Next service intervals updated.
Engagement
It begins with a walkthrough.
An hour at the house, a conversation about how you use it, and a quote for the property. The roster is kept small so that each house gets the attention the standard requires.
Odie Stryker
Stryker Estates · 81-6629 Mamalahoa Highway #1040 · Kealakekua, Hawaiʻi 96750