Your home portal
Whitfield Homes set you up with a home portal
One place for everything about your house: the maintenance schedule, your documents, requests to the trades who built it, and the history — from Whitfield Homes, not a stranger.
Look for the invite email from Whitfield Homes. Open it, set a password, and you’re in.
Your home
142 Maple Court
Homeowner portal · Whitfield Homes
Your request
HVAC not cooling
In progressMaintenance
Why the portal
Why this instead of texting Whitfield Homes
It goes to the right person
The plumber who installed your plumbing, the HVAC company that set the system — not a message that gets forwarded twice and answered Thursday.
You can see what’s happening
Received, assigned, when they’re coming, and photos when it’s done. You don’t have to call anyone to ask.
Nothing gets lost
Every request, document, and visit stays on your home’s record for as long as you own it — not in a text thread you’ll never find again.
How it works
Five things you’ll do in it
- 1
Accept the invite
The email from Whitfield Homes has one link. Open it, set a password, and you’re in with your home already set up. No app to install — bookmark it on your phone.
- 2
Your home, documented
Manuals, warranties, appliance details, and a maintenance schedule built from them, with the source on every line. When something’s due, the reminder comes from Whitfield Homes by email or text.
3 suggestionsAI Home Binder
142 Maple Court
ConfirmedFurnace filter — replace1
Every 90 days
ConfirmedWater heater — flush tank2
Every 12 months
ReviewDishwasher filter — clean3
Every 3 months
Sources
1. Carrier owner’s manual, p.12 — your upload
2. Rheem published maintenance schedule
3. Typical schedule — verify against the manual
- 3
Something’s wrong? Submit a request
A photo and two sentences: what, and where. It’s marked warranty or billable from your home’s warranty dates and plan, and goes straight to the trade who knows your house.
- 4
The trade picks it up
They message you in the portal to schedule, post status from the driveway, and photos when it’s done. Whitfield Homes sees every step without being in the middle of it.
Request #241 · 88 Birch Lane
Kitchen faucet dripping
- 1
“Dripping under the kitchen sink since yesterday.”
photo attached · Tue 7:41am
- 2
Assigned to Reliable Plumbing
Insurance current through Mar 2027
- 3
On site · 2 photos from the jobsite
Homeowner sees this without calling you
Complete · Thu 9:52am
Timestamped on the home’s permanent record
- 1
- 5
Nothing is charged without your OK
Warranty work is free, always. If something is billable, you see the price in the portal and approve it before any work is charged; after the job you get a completion notice and can approve it or report a problem before the charge goes through. If you’re on a maintenance plan, it bills monthly to the card or bank account you put on file.
Two different lists
What’s warranty, what’s maintenance
A new house still needs maintenance from the day you get the keys, whoever built it — and that’s a different list from what Whitfield Homes is responsible for fixing.
Warranty covers what the builder got wrong, and it stays free. A maintenance plan covers what every house needs. One never stands in front of the other.
Warranty
What your builder is responsible for fixing. Free, always.
- A window that leaks at the seal
- Drywall cracks beyond normal settling
- A door that won’t latch after the house settles
- Grout, caulk, and finish defects in year one
- Plumbing and electrical that was installed wrong
Covered by your builder’s warranty, member or not.
Maintenance
What every house needs on a schedule, from day one, whoever built it.
- HVAC serviced twice a year
- Boiler or furnace serviced annually
- Dryer vent cleaned
- Water heater flushed
- Appliances maintained on the manufacturer’s schedule
- Plumbing checked before it leaks
- Septic pumped, gutters cleaned, lawn and grounds kept up
What a maintenance plan covers — up to the whole house.
If Whitfield Homes offers a maintenance plan
One company to call, for the life of the house
Plans range from the schedule and the reminders to the whole house — the trades who built it handling the HVAC, the appliances, the lawn, the septic, on a schedule, for one number a month. What Whitfield Homes offers, what it includes, and what it costs is on your portal before you join.
$20–40 a month
The schedule and the reminders
The plan runs the calendar. The visits are extra, priced before you approve them.
- A maintenance schedule for your actual house, built from its manuals
- A reminder by email or text when something is due
- Your builder’s portal: submit a request, see the status, talk to the sub
- Your documents, warranties, and service history in one place
Service visits are not included. Book one from the reminder and the sub quotes it; you approve the price before anyone comes out.
$100–250 a month
Scheduled service
The visits are in. Your builder’s subs come on the schedule, labor included, and you never book a thing.
- Everything in the schedule-and-reminders plan
- Two HVAC tune-ups a year
- Annual boiler or furnace service
- Dryer vent cleaning
- Water heater flush
- Appliance maintenance on the manufacturer’s interval
Labor for the scheduled visits is included. Parts, and any repair the sub finds while there, are priced and approved before they’re charged.
$500 a month and up
The whole house
One number a month, one company to call. The trades who built the house keep it running.
- Everything in scheduled service
- Lawn and grounds
- Gutters cleaned
- Septic pumped on schedule
- Snow removal
- Plumbing and electrical check-ups
All scheduled work and labor is included. Repairs outside the plan are still priced and approved first — no surprise bills at any tier.
Example plans. What Whitfield Homes offers, and what it costs, is on your portal before you join. Whatever the plan, warranty work stays free.
- You see the full list of what’s included before you join
- Pick a plan in the portal; your builder enrolls your home and you put a card or bank account on file
- Anything outside the plan is priced and approved by you first
- Warranty repairs are free whether you join or not
Questions
Common questions
What do I actually get for the monthly price?
Whatever your builder put in the plan — the portal shows the list before you join. A basic plan runs the calendar: a maintenance schedule built from your house’s own manuals, a reminder when something is due, the portal to submit a request and talk to the sub, and your documents and service history in one place; service visits are booked from the reminder and quoted before anyone comes out. A scheduled-service plan includes the visits and the labor — HVAC tune-ups, the boiler, the dryer vent, the water heater, the appliances. A whole-house plan adds lawn, gutters, septic, and snow for one number a month. At every tier, a repair outside the plan is priced and approved by you before it is charged.
Do I have to join the maintenance plan to get warranty repairs?
No. Warranty repairs are your builder’s obligation and are free whether or not you join a plan, and joining never changes how quickly warranty work is handled. The maintenance plan covers upkeep — the service every house needs from day one, regardless of who built it.
Can I be charged for a repair without agreeing to it?
No. Every request is classified warranty or billable when you submit it. If it is billable, you see the price in your portal and approve it before any work is charged; approving puts a card or bank account on file but charges nothing. When the work is done you get a completion notice: approve it and the saved method is charged, or report a problem and nothing is. If you do neither, the charge goes through after your builder’s review window — 24 hours by default. The amount can never exceed what you approved.
Who shows up to do the work?
The same trades your builder uses — the plumber, electrician, or HVAC company who already know the house. Your request goes to them the moment you submit it; you and the sub talk directly in the portal to schedule it, and they post status and photos as they go. Your builder sees every step.
Do I need an app?
No. The portal runs in a web browser on any phone, tablet, or computer. Your builder sends you a link; you sign in and everything about your home is there.
Open your portal
Your home is already set up. Didn’t get the invite? Ask Whitfield Homes to resend it — it’s one click on their side.
The portal is Whitfield Homes’s service. Afterkey is the software underneath it. More for homeowners.