Punch list · Builder→Homeowner handoff

The list that becomes
the homeowner's first record.

Every new home starts with a walkthrough and a punch list. Most of those punch lists end up as a PDF in an email that gets lost six weeks later. The good ones become the first verified entry in the home's permanent record — and travel with the property at every future sale.

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Punch list · 1842 Ridgeway Dr

Substantial completion · Apr 11

47/47

All items resolved

100% · 18 days

  • Kitchen

    Cabinet door align · N wall

    Cabinetry · Granger

  • Master Bath

    Grout match · shower wall

    Tile · ProTile

  • Living

    Hardwood seam · hearth

    Floors · Atlas

  • Exterior

    Downspout angle · NE

    Site · Brewer

  • Garage

    Door balance adjust

    Doors · OverheadCo

Transferred at closing

Apr 29 · fingerprinted
The handoff problem

A new home is delivered with a stack of paper. Five years later, the homeowner can find none of it.

Substantial completion, the punch-list walkthrough, the certificate of occupancy, the warranty packets, the appliance manuals, the manufacturer registration cards — it all arrives in a few weeks at the end of construction and then scatters across email, drawers, and lost USB sticks. When the homeowner needs the punch-list record three years later for a warranty claim, or seven years later when selling, it is gone.

76%

of new construction buyers report missing builder documents within 3 years

NAHB homeowner survey

$2,400

average out-of-pocket cost when a warranty claim fails due to missing punch-list evidence

Industry analysis

47

average open items at substantial completion on a typical single-family build

AGC walkthrough data

How the punch-list handoff actually works.

  1. 01

    Capture at walkthrough

    Each item is logged with room, severity, photo, and the builder's assigned trade. Fingerprinted at upload via Digital Evidence.

  2. 02

    Track to resolution

    The builder updates status as items close. Photos and trade signoffs attach to the item. Nothing is lost in email.

  3. 03

    Verify at final walkthrough

    Cleared items are marked complete. Outstanding items roll into the builder's warranty obligation with documentation intact.

  4. 04

    Transfer at closing

    The full cleared punch list — every photo, every trade signoff, every date — becomes Entry #1 in the homeowner's permanent property record.

What stays in the record

47 / 47

Punch-list items, all resolved, all photographed, all signed off by trade, all fingerprinted via Digital Evidence.

This is the first entry in the homeowner's permanent property record. Everything else builds on it.

Cleared items · sample

All verified

  • Kitchen

    Resolved · Apr 14

    Cabinet door alignment, north wall

    Cabinetry · Granger Inc.

    3 photos

  • Master Bath

    Resolved · Apr 16

    Grout color match, shower wall

    Tile · ProTile Solutions

    2 photos, invoice

  • Living

    Resolved · Apr 18

    Hardwood plank seam, near hearth

    Flooring · Atlas Hardwoods

    4 photos

  • Exterior

    Resolved · Apr 22

    Downspout discharge angle, NE corner

    Site · Brewer Excavating

    2 photos, grading verified

  • Garage

    Resolved · Apr 28

    Door balance adjustment

    Doors · OverheadCo

    Service ticket

Most builders hand you a house.
We're handing homeowners the proof.

The Terraces is a 60-unit Blue Ridge community where every Guidebook — including the cleared punch list at handoff — transfers to the new owner at closing. The buyer receives the home and the record together.

In their words

Ed Oravetz

Builder · Terraces Townhomes, Blue Ridge GA

Who builds with the punch-list handoff

Start the record at the punch list.

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