Every property has a last 10%: the loose hardware, wall patch, door adjustment, touch-up, installation, or inspection item nobody has gotten around to. We built It Is Ready to own that gap.
Home prep, punch lists, small repairs, and inspection items from the same clear menu. You choose what needs handled. We take it from there.
You pick from dates that are actually open on our calendar. No estimate appointment, no waiting to hear back. The date you choose is the date we hold.
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.
You know the list. The towel bar that wiggles. The closet door off track. The scuff behind the bedroom door. The doorbell that hasn't worked in years. Maybe you're getting ready to sell. Maybe you're moving in. Maybe a tenant just moved out. Or maybe an inspection report just landed with thirty little items and a closing date attached.
Then the contractor chase starts. The first person doesn't pick up. The second wants to schedule an estimate next week. The third ghosts after the walkthrough. A quote finally arrives for the wrong scope.
That gap — between almost done and actually ready — is where time disappears. Not usually 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 came up in the trades and spent fifteen years as a woodworker — high-end furniture restoration, custom builds, hardwood floors, running my own sawmill. That work teaches you something specific: a finish either holds or it doesn't. There's no almost. You can see every shortcut in raking light. I still run that shop. Then I became a Realtor, and started watching closings stall over small repairs that took weeks to schedule.
Rodney came up the other side of the same trade. Master carpenter. Framing professionally by eighteen, then Washington State Carpenter's Union, commercial construction, industrial demolition, lead man on crews that put up buildings and took them down. He reads a house structurally. Where the load runs. Why the door won't latch. What's actually behind the drywall before anybody opens it.
That combination is the whole point. Most punch-list work fails at one end or the other. The handyman who can hang a door but leaves a caulk line you'd notice from the driveway. The finish guy who makes it pretty without asking why the trim separated in the first place. A punch list needs both — the diagnosis and the detail.
Rodney figures out why it moved. I make sure you can't tell it ever did. Between structure and finish there isn't much on a punch list we haven't already built, torn out, or made right.
People don't need another number to call. They need one reliable partner for the last 10%. Someone who treats "almost done" like what it actually is: not done.
So we built one. A menu covering the common small repairs, replacements, touch-ups, listing-prep details, make-ready items, and inspection findings we see across Northwest Arkansas. You choose the line items, see the price, and choose your service date without waiting on an estimate appointment.
One list. One clear price. One team. The contractor-chase ends here.
We're a Christian family, and our standard comes from 1 Corinthians 14:40. 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. Decently and in order means every detail, every time.
If it's on your list and it stays inside our non-licensed repair lane — bring it to us. Pick an open date on our calendar and it’s yours. We follow up with your arrival window.
— Jacy Shelton, Operations
Fifteen years as a woodworker — high-end furniture restoration, custom builds, hardwood floor refinishing, and running his own sawmill. The kind of work where a finish either holds or it doesn't, and every shortcut shows in raking light. He still runs that shop, It Is ReFinished. Before that he came up through the union as a carpenter and laborer, OSHA-certified in those years. A former Realtor, he's the one who spotted the punch-list gap from both sides of a closing table. He runs Operations — booking, dispatch, communication, and the standard — and brings the finish eye to every Ready List. Father of six; when he's not working he's with his family, though he'll take an Ozark trail when he can.
Holding 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. He reads a house structurally: where the load runs, why the door won't latch, what's behind the drywall before anybody opens it. There isn't a structural or cosmetic issue he hasn't built, torn down, or perfected. Union-trained and OSHA-certified through his trade years. When It Is Ready arrives, Rodney is the Field Manager at your door leading the work. Off the clock he runs a mountain bike ministry, taking folks out on the Ozark trails that put NWA on the map.
No estimate appointment for standard menu work. No contractor shuffle. Build your Ready List online, see the price, lock in a real service date, and consider the details handled.
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