A home can outlive its owner. Its history should too.
In most families, the story of a house lives in one person’s head and a kitchen drawer: which roofer, which warranty, which code opens the garage. Keep it in Toft, and choose who looks after it next.
An example, not a real family
Erin’s house, and what Noah found in it
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While Erin runs the house
Erin files each job as it’s done: the furnace service every fall, the new water heater, the roofer’s warranty. Toft reminds her when upkeep is due. She makes her son Noah an administrator and shares the codes with him. Nothing changes for Erin. She still owns the record.
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The month everything is hard
When Erin passes away, her bank card is closed and the next payment fails. Toft emails Noah as well as Erin. He adds his own card and the home stays open. The family isn’t locked out, and the record isn’t at risk.
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Deciding what comes next
Noah can see what was replaced, when, and by whom, with the receipts and warranties attached. The garage code and the alarm code are where Erin left them. When the family sells, Noah sends the buyers a Home Report with years of care in it.
Set it up in one sitting
Make them an administrator
Invite the person who will look after the home next, and choose Administrator. They can run the home and keep it paid for. You stay the owner.
Share your codes
Door, alarm and Wi-Fi codes are never shared automatically. Share them with your administrator from Settings.
Keep your backup key with your papers
If you make your codes readable only by you, Toft can’t open them. Keep the 12-word backup key with your will.
Tell them it’s there
Let them know the home is on Toft and which email you invited. Payment and deletion warnings go to them too.
An administrator can
- Add and change everything in the record
- Invite family, change roles, remove people
- Subscribe, update the card, manage billing
- Share a Home Report with buyers or a lawyer
Only you, the owner, can
- Hand over ownership
- Erase the home’s record
- Decide a request for the home’s records
If you’d rather they own it outright now, hand over ownership instead. You keep view-only access.
What Toft can’t do
Toft can’t tell when an owner passes away, and an administrator can’t become the owner unless the owner hands it over. If a home stays paused for 24 months, it’s deleted, and only basic facts about the building stay with the address. Codes readable only by the owner can’t be opened without the backup key. Setting this up while you can is what makes the difference.
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