The Arrival
You open the door and the house is ready: the temperature, the lighting, the music, a stocked kitchen, your bags already unpacked. A pile of delivery boxes on a counter is a chore. This is an arrival.
One person who knows your home.
Imagine a five-star hotel where you are the only guest. That is what your home becomes: the one place where nothing is asked of you.
Not a queue, an app or a help desk. One person who learns how your house runs and how you like it, so you never explain anything twice.
How It Works
Always a step ahead.
- A Conversation, Then a Walk Through
- We sit down with you to learn how you live, how the house should feel and what you are tired of thinking about. Then we walk the house together. Within days, you have a written proposal.
- From the First Week
- Service begins as soon as you sign, starting with whatever has been waiting on you. Within the month, your home is documented: its systems, warranties, vendors, paperwork and the standards you set. You approve it, and it becomes the plan your home is run by.
- Then, a Step Ahead
- Every service, renewal and occasion is handled before it falls due. Everyday decisions are made within the limits you set; anything beyond them comes to you with our recommendation.
- Whenever You Want Something
- A dinner, a trip, a change to the house: you text one number, and it is arranged by the person who already knows how you like it.
- Each Month, a Note
- What was handled and what is coming, so you never have to ask.
Who It's For
People whose time is already spoken for.
- Work That Asks Everything
- Your work has your attention. The house shouldn't need any of it: no vendor calls, no repair windows, no paperwork squeezed into the margins of your day.
- Rarely Home Before Dark
- Late nights and guests at short notice. The house is ready to be seen on any evening you bring someone home.
- Seasons and Road Trips
- Months of travel and moves you don't always choose. The house is watched over the whole time you are gone.
- More Than One Home
- Every residence kept to one standard, with one person and one monthly note for all of them.
In Practice
Set up once around the way you live. After that, it simply happens.
The Departure
You leave without a single thought about the house. Your bags are packed, the house is secured behind you and your car is waiting.
The Week Ahead
Before your week begins, it's already arranged. Clothes are pressed, and every visit to the house is timed around your calendar, so no one rings the bell during your call.
The Change of Season
The heating is serviced before the first cold night and the air conditioning before the first heat wave. Nothing fails, because it was looked after before it could.
The Monthly Note
An example.
Your Home: November
- Occasions
- Your mother's birthday is the 18th. Flowers are ordered and a card is on your desk.
- Travel
- Your car for the mountain trip on the 22nd is booked, and the cabin is stocked.
- Wardrobe
- Winter coats are cleaned and back in the closet. Two suits are back from the tailor.
- Paperwork
- Your passport expires in May. The renewal is prepared and ready whenever you are.
- The House
- The gutters were cleared after the leaves came down, and the irrigation was shut off ahead of the first freeze.
- For Your Decision
- The roof warranty ends in March. Two inspection quotes are attached; we recommend the first.
Postern Private
Discretion
- Nobody Knows
- Your neighbors see a home that is always perfect. Your guests see a host who never seems to lift a finger. Only you know why.
- Your Name
- Vendors answer to us and never learn whose home they're in, so nothing is priced on your name and no contractor ever calls you. We publish nothing and never name a client.
- Vetted Specialists
- Every specialist is background-checked, carries their own insurance and signs a confidentiality agreement before stepping inside. Your own trusted vendors are welcome, held to the same standard.
The Founder
I have run a multi-million-dollar estate: its vendors, its upkeep, its calendar and the hundred small details that keep a house of that scale running.
I also spent more than seven years building complex software and leading the teams behind it, on systems that could never be allowed to fail. That work taught me what running an estate confirmed: the problems that do the most damage are the small ones nobody is watching.
Over years of running homes, my own included, I have built a bench of specialists I trust. If you already have people you trust, I work with them instead. Either way, every one answers to me and nothing is left to memory.
We take on a small number of clients, so each one has our full attention. We work in the background, so all you ever notice is the result.
FounderErica McGuire
Begin
The first conversation is complimentary.
- Getting Started
- A one-time onboarding fee, set out in your proposal and paid with the first month.
- Ongoing Care
- A monthly retainer, set by the number of residences and how much you hand over. What is included is agreed in writing, so you always know what's covered.
- Availability
- When we are full, we keep a waiting list.
For all other inquiries, office@posternprivate.com