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Mortgage payments, insurance, upkeep. Someone has to keep the house protected and the bills paid while the family decides whether to sell or keep it. That someone should be your account coordinator, not you.

Nobody expects you to have your house in order this week.

Your Otherside Life account coordinator keeps it standing until you’re ready to decide.

We track the mortgage servicer and keep the insurance active, so coverage doesn’t lapse while the estate is settled.

We coordinate maintenance and the sell-or-keep conversation with a licensed real estate agent.

We make the calls and track the vendor, so the details stay off your plate.

We stay reachable on the 24/7 concierge line the whole time this is being coordinated.

Real estate agents are listed in a neutral directory, not billed through us — you work with and pay the agent directly.

Real estate coordination runs alongside every coordination tier, not inside one.

The First 500 Hours

10hoursis the average time a family spends coordinating the house.

That’s keeping the mortgage servicer and insurer on the same page, coordinating repairs, and talking through whether to sell or keep the house. Ten hours might not register as its own line item, but it’s real time pulled from the roughly 570-hour pile that comes with settling an estate, on top of everything else grief already takes.

Read the full First 500 Hours guide

Go deeper

More on real estate.

Real agents, and the sell-or-keep decision laid out plainly.

Coordinator’s guide

How an Otherside Life Coordinator Helps With Real Estate

The full walkthrough of what your coordinator handles, start to finish, with links out to everything else we’ve written on the home and the estate.

Vendor directory

Compassionate real estate agents near you

Real, currently-practicing LA agents with probate and inherited-property experience, to start your own research.

GuideComing soon

Selling vs. keeping the house: what to weigh

The real trade-offs, financial and otherwise, before the family decides.

GuideComing soon

What happens to the mortgage when someone dies

Who’s responsible for payments, and what the loan servicer actually needs from you.

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You don’t have to make these calls yourself.

Tell your account coordinator what matters to your family, and let them handle the rest.

Just say the word