Deals don't die on the big things.
They bleed out on the details.
You know the feeling. The list of small things keeping a house from selling. Or the inspection report that just came back. Either way — the deal is intact, but the house isn't ready.
One menu. Two scenarios.
Listing prep and inspection-report resolution from the same menu. Sellers pick what's on their list. We deploy the rest.
5 business days. Often sooner.
On-site, completed, and off the property within 5 business days of booking. Miss the window and the deployment is free.
We know our lane.
Licensed electrical, plumbing, HVAC, roofing — we don't touch. Insurance and disclosure liability are real reasons. We do everything else.
There's always a list.
The seller knows it before listing — the towel bar that wiggles, the closet door off track, the scuff behind the bedroom door, the doorbell that hasn't worked in years. Or it arrives after inspection — thirty items flagged, closing in twelve days.
Either way, the seller starts calling contractors. The first one doesn't pick up. The second one books a site visit for next week. The third one ghosts after the walkthrough. A quote arrives four days later for the wrong scope.
It's just not finished.
That gap — between "we're listing soon" and "it's ready to show," between contract and closing — is where deals lose money. Not on the big things. On the small ones that nobody owns.
We didn't start in a boardroom. We started in the shop. The kind with sawdust in the air and a hammer that's been swung since age five.
I grew up in the trades, then spent a decade obsessing over high-end furniture restoration. The work that taught me a finish either holds or it doesn't. And then I became a Realtor.
I know what it feels like to watch a closing stall over a $200 repair that took three weeks to schedule. To watch buyers and sellers stare at each other across an inspection report nobody wants to own.
The industry doesn't need more contractors. It needs an infrastructure partner. Someone who treats "almost done" like what it actually is: not done.
So we built one. A menu covering the most common listing-prep fixes and inspection-report findings we see in Northwest Arkansas. A vending machine where the seller picks line items, pays once, and locks a deployment date. No quotes. No callbacks. No PDF parsing.
One vendor. One invoice. One deployment window. The contractor-chase ends here.
Our name is a commitment. When we say something is done, it actually means something. — Why we're called It Is Ready
We're a Christian family, and our standard comes from Colossians 3:23: "Work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men." So we don't cover things up. We don't leave the last 10% for someone else. And we don't take on licensed work we have no business doing.
If it's on your list and it doesn't require a license — bring it to us. We deploy in five business days. Often sooner.
— Jacy Shelton, Founder
Jacy Shelton
Founder / Surface RestorationJacy grew up in the dust of construction sites, then spent fifteen years on high-end furniture restoration, custom woodworking, hardwood floor refinishing, and running his own sawmill. The work taught him that a finish either holds or it doesn't. He's also a former Realtor — which is how he saw the punch-list gap firsthand. He and Nikki share six kids, so leading a crew and managing chaos are baseline skills.
Rodney Carr
Master Carpenter / Field LeadHolding a hammer since age five. Framing professionally by eighteen. Rodney's resume is a heavy-industry rap sheet — Washington State Carpenter's Union, commercial building, industrial power plant demolition, lead man roles from Morton Buildings to commercial roofing. There isn't a structural or cosmetic issue he hasn't built, torn down, or perfected.
Nikki Shelton
Founder, It Is Cleaned (Sister Service)Twenty-eight years of motherhood taught Nikki to bring order to chaos. She started by tackling the aftermath of Jacy's hardwood floor jobs, then built her own rural cleaning business. Now OSHA 10 Construction Certified, she runs It Is Cleaned — the sister service that handles deep cleans and pre-listing prep. Same family, same standard, different scope.
You build the list. We handle the rest.
No site visits. No quotes. No callbacks. Build your exact punch list online in 60 seconds. Lock the date with PayPal. Consider it handled.
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