Banyan is a private membership for South Tampa homeowners who are done vetting contractors at nine at night. One number. Independent licensed trades, introduced as your disclosed agent. And a Home Manager at the house when they arrive — if you want us there.
Why this exists
The plumber with the four-star reviews bought that placement. The one your neighbor swears by hasn't answered in a week. You're choosing between a stranger and waiting.
Every appointment costs a half-day. Either you burn it, or you let someone into your house with nobody there who knows what the job was supposed to be.
Nine thousand dollars for a condenser. Maybe that's right. You have no way to know, and no time to get two more quotes to find out.
The water heater nobody flushed. The dryer vent nobody cleaned. Deferred maintenance is the most expensive kind, and it's invisible until it isn't.
How it works
Membership opens with a Home Health Audit — a full walkthrough, a written report on every system, and a maintenance calendar built for that specific house.
Something breaks, or something's due. You text or call. We triage it and introduce the right independent licensed trade as your disclosed agent — at the member rate, with no markup.
A Banyan Home Manager meets the trade, lets them in, confirms the scope, photographs the work, and secures the house. Or you handle it yourself. Your call, every time.
Every visit, invoice, and photograph lands in the home's file. When you sell, you hand the buyer a documented maintenance history instead of a shrug.
What you get on day one
Membership opens with a full walkthrough, a written report on every system, and a maintenance calendar built for that specific house. This is the format.
Home Health Audit
Sample property · South Tampa
Sample · planned format
| System | Finding | Status | Next |
|---|---|---|---|
| HVAC — air handler & condenser | 2019 unit, 3 ton. Coil clean, drain line clear. | Good — No action | Filter service Nov |
| Water heater | 2016 gas, 50 gal. No flush on record. Anode not inspected. | Act — Needs work | Flush & inspect |
| Roof & openings | Architectural shingle, 2020. Two lifted tabs, south slope. | Monitor — Watch | Pre-season May |
| Dryer vent | Rigid duct, 14ft run to soffit. Lint accumulation at elbow. | Act — Needs work | Clean |
| Electrical panel | 200A, 2018. Labelled, no double-taps, AFCI on bedroom circuits. | Good — No action | — |
| Irrigation | Six zones. Zone 3 head misaligned, spraying the drive. | Monitor — Watch | Zone check |
| Drainage & grading | Positive fall on three elevations. North bed holds water. | Monitor — Watch | Pre-season May |
A specimen, not a report for a real address, and not a licensed home inspection. Banyan documents condition and schedules maintenance; it does not perform inspections that require a Florida home inspector licence, and it does not pay for repairs. Independent licensed trades do the work.
The founding list
Membership is not for sale yet. This list is how we decide who to call in January 2027. Joining it does not create an agreement and does not reserve a slot we haven't promised.
From the founder
Nathan Foster
Banyan Home Co. · South Tampa
Every service that promises to find you a contractor is paid by the contractor. That is the whole reason the recommendations are worthless — the name you get is the name that bought the placement that week, and you find out which it was after the work is done.
Banyan is built the other way around. Members pay us. Trades invoice for their work and we pay them as your disclosed agent, without a markup and without taking a cent from them. That single decision is what makes everything else on this page worth reading, and it only holds if it is absolute.
It is also why the map is so small. Four ZIP codes is not modesty — it is the largest area where I can answer the phone myself and know the roof we are talking about. We would rather be excellent across a few neighbourhoods than adequate across a metro.
Membership does not open until mid-January 2027. Until then, nothing here is for sale, and the founding list is simply how I decide who to call first.
Nathan Foster
The promise
We take nothing from the contractors we recommend.
Not a referral fee. Not a percentage. Not a kickback. Not a marketing budget. Every lead marketplace you've ever used sells your job to whoever paid the most that week — which is why the recommendations are worthless. We're paid by you, so we work for you. That's the whole product, and it only works if it's absolute.
The standard
The bar we will hold for trades. It is not a live roster — no vendors are signed yet.
Service area
Year 1 is South Tampa only — 33606, 33609, 33611, and 33629, including Beach Park and Davis Islands. A tight radius on purpose. We would rather be excellent across a few neighbourhoods than adequate across a metro.
If you are outside this area, use the founding list and say so — we expand by neighbourhood, not by advertisement. Or write hello@banyanhomeco.com.
Membership
Planned pricing — membership opens mid-January 2027. Pay monthly, or pay for the year and get two months back.
| What's included | Essentials$149 / moAsk about this tier | Signature$299 / moAsk about this tier | Platinum$499 / moAsk about this tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Licensed trades at member rates | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Priority scheduling | Priority | Priority | Front of queue |
| Concierge line | Business hours | 24 / 7 | 24 / 7 dedicated |
| Annual Home Health Audit | 1 × year | 1 × year | 2 × year |
| Attended service visits — we meet the trade, if you'd like us to | 2 / year | 8 / year | Unlimited (fair use) |
| Scheduled HVAC filter service | — | 2 × year filters at cost | 2 × year filters included |
| Managed seasonal maintenance calendar | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hurricane readiness programme | — | Post-storm inspection | Full programme |
| Quote review & negotiation on major work | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Away-from-home checks | — | — | Monthly |
$149 / mo
$299 / mo
$499 / mo
A one-time $350 initiation is planned for the first Home Health Audit and the build of the home's file. Independent licensed trades do the work. Banyan pays them as your disclosed agent within five business days of an approved invoice, never marks the work up, and takes nothing from the trade.
Scheduled services
Independent licensed trades, on a calendar, so you never have to remember them. Prices below are planned à la carte rates — Banyan does not mark these jobs up.
The public guide for the season — zones, a 72-hour plan, and printable lists — is Tampa Bay hurricane prep.
Built for this coast
A home maintenance company from California doesn't know what October does to a Tampa house. We do. Hurricane service isn't an add-on we bolted on — it's half of why this business exists here.
County zone maps, supply lists, and what to do before you leave are in the hurricane prep guide. Membership readiness is a scheduled look at the house. It is not coverage.
Questions
No — and the distinction matters. Banyan is not a warranty, a service contract, or insurance. We do not pay for repairs and we do not promise to replace anything when it fails.
What membership buys is coordination, introductions to licensed trades, scheduled maintenance, pricing negotiated on your behalf, and our people at the house if you want them. When something needs fixing, an independent licensed trade does the work. Banyan never marks that work up.
Two separate things. You pay Banyan a membership fee for the service above. Independent licensed trades do the repairs. They invoice Banyan; we pay them as your disclosed agent within five business days of an approved invoice, with no markup.
You remain the contracting party for the trade's work. We take no kickbacks, referral fees, or any other compensation from vendors. That keeps the incentives clean: we have no reason to want the job to be bigger than it is.
A Banyan Home Manager comes to the house at the appointment window, lets the trade in, confirms the scope matches what was quoted, stays through the work, photographs the result, and locks up.
It's entirely your choice. You can be there yourself — attendance is something you request, not something we impose. Nothing about membership changes if you never use it.
We prefer temporary smart-lock codes that expire after the appointment. Where a physical key is necessary, it lives in a numbered lockbox with no address on it, and every issue and return is logged.
Home Managers are background-checked, bonded, W-2 employees — not the trades doing the work. Keys are never handed to a vendor to keep.
You call us, not them. We handle the remediation conversation, and we hold the leverage in that conversation because they want to stay in the network.
Every trade carries their own liability insurance with Banyan named as additional insured, and a vendor who produces a bad outcome twice is removed. An introduction is only worth something if it costs us something.
Planned, once membership is actually for sale: monthly memberships month to month, 30 days' notice, no early-termination fee. Annual memberships cancelled mid-term would be refunded unused months less the two-month prepay discount.
Those are not terms in force today. There is no membership agreement yet, and visiting this site or contacting us does not create one.
Year 1 public area is South Tampa only: 33606, 33609, 33611, and 33629, including Beach Park and Davis Islands — Hyde Park, Palma Ceia, Harbour Island, Bayshore, Sunset Park, and Culbreath Isles. We stay inside that radius on purpose. Membership opens mid-January 2027.
No. Banyan is a membership, not a repair company. Independent licensed trades do the work. We coordinate, introduce them as your disclosed agent, pay them in five business days on your behalf, and attend if you want us there. We never mark up third-party repairs.
We are not an insurer. Signature and Platinum include hurricane-season readiness, scheduled before the season. After a storm we can inspect the house. Anything that follows is between you and your carrier.
Mid-January 2027
Membership is not open yet. When it is, it begins with a Home Health Audit — a walkthrough, a written report, and a calendar for that house. Until then, (813) 330-0480 is the main door.
Or write hello@banyanhomeco.com.