About us

The people who watch your home

A locally owned home watch company built on documentation, consistency, and trust, so your time away actually feels like time away.

Riann Stroud, co-founder of Certified Coastal Home Watch

Riann Stroud

co-founder

For twenty-six years, Riann built her career in cybersecurity. She has led engineering teams responsible for security governance, risk management, and compliance programs at $8B+ technology companies, where the work came down to a repeatable discipline: verify the condition of what you are responsible for, document what you find with evidence, and report it to the owner before a small problem turns into a loss. That discipline is the foundation of Certified Coastal Home Watch, LLC. Every visit follows one written checklist, every finding is documented with geolocation and time stamped photos, and every owner receives a report by email after the visit. Riann also handles access control for the business, so keys, gate codes, alarm codes, and client records are managed with the same security standards she applied to protecting sensitive corporate systems. Riann is building the company's own service platform, covering client sign-ups, scheduling, visit checklists, photo reporting, and secure tracking of access codes. Clients get consistent reporting rather than handwritten notes.

Dawn Schnaiter, Co-Founder of Certified Coastal Home Watch

Dawn Schnaiter

Co-Founder

Dawn is a retired licensed Realtor with 35 years in residential real estate. Three and a half decades of showings, listings, and closings taught her what a Florida home does when nobody lives in it, and what a small problem looks like before it gets expensive. She knows how a property condition issue reads to a buyer, to a licensed contractor, and to an insurance adjuster, and she documents a home the same way. Dawn earned the ABR, CRS, and GRI designations and was a member of the National Association of Realtors throughout her career. She served on the Professional Standards Committee and chaired the Code of Ethics Committee for her local board, and she served for many years as a trained mediator for that board, resolving disputes between agents, brokers, and clients. That record matters to a home watch client. Dawn spent years holding other real estate professionals to a written code of conduct. She brings the same standard to a business built on people handing over their house keys. She also brings decades of local relationships. When a visit turns up a problem the owner needs fixed, she knows which licensed contractors to call.

Credentials

Our Credentials

Riann Stroud with NHWA instructor Jason McGarvey holding her Home Watch Boot Camp certificate.
Riann Stroud receives her Certified Home Watch Professional certificate from NHWA instructor Jason McGarvey, September 2026.
NHWA Certified Home Watch Professional badge.

Riann Stroud earned the Certified Home Watch Professional designation from the National Home Watch Association after completing the NHWA Home Watch Boot Camp. This also adds to her many cyber security certifications she has obtained in her career. The NHWA certification reflects training in professional home watch standards, visit procedures, and client reporting.

Certification valid through September 24, 2028.

nationalhomewatchassociation.org

Accountable to you

We are insured, bonded, and background-checked, and every visit ends with a written, photographed record you keep.

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