You can't drop by, so you find out what happened when somebody remembers to tell you. Perch closes that gap: who turned up, what got done, what a quote really says, and the chase already drafted in your artisan's language.
Three weeks of silence, then a photo of a wall. Perch sends a weekly recap with the main photo, what moved, what didn't and a traffic light per project. When a contractor goes quiet, it drafts the follow-up (around day 4, then 10, then 18, alternating channel) and you send it in one tap. To know whether anyone turned up at all, contractors clock in through a link, with no app and no account, and each arrival is a time-stamped, geolocated photo.
No word of mouth reaches you from 1,000 km away. Before you commit, Perch checks a French firm against SIRENE/INSEE, the RGE registry that gates MaPrimeRénov', and its Google Places history. If you have nobody yet, it finds candidates by trade and radius and sends the request for you. Three devis in three formats are normalised into one shape, line by line, with what each one leaves out marked.
You're negotiating in a language and a register you don't have. Messages go out in the contractor's language and the register they expect, the vous and the Cordialement, with the original kept beside it for the record.
A pipe goes while the house is empty. An emergency card lives at its own link: who to call, where the stopcock is, which neighbour holds a key. A neighbour or gardien opens it with no account, and seasonal checks raise the winter jobs before winter. When the person nearest the house isn't you, a sibling, a parent or a local friend gets their own seat on the property with the same record, or a local inspector gets a link and their report lands straight on the property.
Remote ownership comes in four common shapes: a house you grew up in, in a country you no longer live in; a weekend place you only see in summer; a property you bought to rent or to renovate and sell; and a small portfolio of three to ten properties you manage yourself. Your first property report is free, with no credit card.