Landscape twin: the yard is part of the record
The yard is the most expensive part of the home that nobody documents. Mature trees, irrigation systems, hardscape, pool equipment — tens of thousands of dollars of assets that appraisers squint at and buyers can't evaluate, because there's never a record. The landscape twin gives the outside of the home the same treatment as the inside.
Photograph the yard like a room
The flow mirrors the room twin: walk the yard with your phone, and Proven identifies what it sees — trees and major plantings, the irrigation controller and visible drip zones, the pool pump and filter, retaining walls, gates, decking. Each identified item becomes a tracked element of the home's record with its own condition, history, and documents.
Living assets get living treatment. A tree isn't a furnace: the record tracks species, placement, and care history, and the maintenance plan reflects biology — deep-water schedules for the desert, pruning windows that follow the species rather than a generic calendar, frost protection when the forecast actually calls for it.
Why the yard record pays
- Irrigation is the silent money leak. A documented emitter audit each fall — like the one in the sample report — is the difference between a $40 fix and a summer of $300 water bills under dead plantings.
- Pool equipment is a major system. A variable-speed pump with a documented install date and service record is a sale asset; an unknown-age pump is an inspection deduction.
- Mature trees are five-figure assets that need steady care to stay that way. A care record showing regular pruning of the tree over the patio tells a buyer the property has been looked after — where silence just raises questions.
- Hardscape ages too. Wall cracks photographed and dated establish whether movement is historic or active — a question that otherwise costs a structural engineer's invoice to answer.
One record, whole property
With the landscape twin in place, the home's record stops at the property line instead of the back door. The Proven Report shows the parcel as a buyer actually experiences it — house and grounds — with the same verified-history standard applied to both.