The Porchlight Blog
When reading the reviews won't cut it.
How to research, screen, and coordinate the services your home and family depend on — the questions to ask on the first call, how to handle it when things go wrong, and what it looks like to hand it all to a fractional family assistant. You could do every one of these yourself. An assistant just makes it easier.
Why your assistant starts ahead — your Home Base compounds
The organized history behind every recommendation — your home's context, applied. It's the part of our work you can't Google.
Read →What is a fractional family assistant?
A dedicated, real person for the calls, research, and follow-up of home life — at a fraction of the cost of hiring one yourself.
Read →How to choose a fractional family assistant
The questions to ask any assistant service — including ours — before you hand them your household.
Read →The household mental load — and how to share it
Why the invisible work of running a home piles up in one person's head — and what to hand off first.
Read →How we screen a contractor (the Porchlight Method)
The standard behind every recommendation — license, insurance, references, and a clear pick you can act on.
Read →Coordinating care for an aging parent from afar
A calm, repeatable way to stay on top of appointments, providers, and logistics — from another town.
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