The Subscription

For trades and vendors · Orange County

Listing work, booked properly.Free to be on the platform.

Painters, cleaners, stagers, handymen, flooring, landscaping and junk removal. One manager books you, one manager answers the phone, and the homeowner contracts you directly.

Why bother

What is different about working this way.

You are not bidding

There is no marketplace here and no race to the bottom. Agents and homeowners cannot browse trades. A manager who has walked the property chooses who goes on the job, and your price is your price.

The homeowner contracts you, and pays you

You sign with the homeowner and invoice the homeowner. Nothing is routed through us, so there is nothing sitting in somebody else’s account waiting to be released to you.

One thread, one manager

Your conversation is with the manager running the job — scheduling, access, scope, snags. You are not in a group chat with the agent and the seller, and you are not relaying through three people to find out whether the house is empty yet.

Your credentials are shown, not buried

Your licence, your certificate of insurance and your bond are on your profile where the homeowner can see them. Keeping them current is on you — expired paperwork takes you out of the booking list until it is renewed, and we will warn you before that happens.

What we look for

Short list.

Houses going on the market work to a date that does not move, so the bar is about reliability more than anything else.

Current licenceWhere the trade requires one. Staging and cleaning do not.
Current insuranceA certificate we can keep on file, with its expiry date.
You turn upOn the day agreed, or you call before the day agreed.
You finish cleanThe next trade and the photographer are right behind you.

Apply to join

Tell us about your business.

Free to apply · free to be on the platform

A manager reads every one of these. If there is a fit we will call you and talk about the kind of work we have.

Got it.

Thank you — a manager will read this and be in touch. If you want to send a licence or insurance certificate in the meantime, email admin@thesubscription.com.

We use this to decide whether to call you and, if we work together, to keep your licence and insurance on file. We do not sell it or share it outside the jobs you are assigned to.