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Vee Bybee and Greg Bybee Present Platinum Residential Monitoring
Platinum is the ‘Gold Standard’ in Santa Fe.
You love your Santa Fe home. While you’re gone, we’ll take care of it as if it’s our own.
Vee Bybee and Greg Bybee present Platinum Residential Monitoring, Santa Fe’s premier home tending service, now with over a decade of experience. Platinum offers an array of premium services, but we only sell peace of mind.
We’re discreet, we’re insured, and we can deal with your other service providers in English or Spanish—or Czech if we need to.
With over 29 years of Santa Fe real estate experience, we’d be honored to add you to our client list.
Santa Fe Water World, Volume I.
Vee’s good friends live in Santa Fe part time, but they don’t employ home tenders.
While they were away over the winter, a pipe burst inside their home. They discovered the mess weeks later, and what they found was about 10 inches of dank water standing throughout the house. The repairs—to walls, cabinets, floors, and furniture, for water damage, for mold, and for a rodent infestation enabled by the burst pipe—cost them tens of thousands of dollars and months of aggravation.
Platinum probably could not have prevented the accident, but our timely intervention could have limited the damage and expense.
When you spend months away, home tending is a necessity—contact us now for a free estimate.
Residential Monitoring Services
Standard services: secure, fresh, and ready for your next visit.
Platinum will help keep your Santa Fe home safe. Vee, Greg, and their team:
— Organize daily or weekly visits, depending on your needs
— Undertake an exterior monitoring review
- Survey grounds, exterior finishes, and exterior lighting
- Recommend seasonal maintenance, when necessary
- Note landscape neglect or storm damage
- Collect mail, newspapers, and packages
— Undertake an interior monitoring review
- Inspect interior for signs of leaks, stains, pests, or other damage
- Confirm that all doors and windows are secure
- Check plumbing and HVAC systems
- Ensure that the alarm system functions (we can be the first call if the alarm trips)
- Water house plants
- Examine for signs of theft and/or vandalism
— Provide regular reports via email, text, and telephone
In short, we monitor just about everything necessary to preserve the value of your home and its contents.
Other services: sometimes you’d like to order something that’s not on the menu.
We are here to help in any way we can.
In addition to our fixed-fee standard services, Platinum can help in a variety of ways, all billed at an hourly rate. Our other services include:
- Scheduling and meeting service contractors (electrical, plumbing, landscaping, etc.)
- Shopping for groceries and other provisions
- Organizing house cleaning
- Picking up and delivering dry-cleaning
- Arranging auto servicing and detailing
- Obtaining floral arrangements
- Finding folks to wax your jet (or your jet ski)
But really, you need not feel limited by our list. If you can name it, we can do it, within reason.
Santa Fe Water World, Volume II.
Bob and Karen D. have worked with Platinum for years.
In the dead of winter, a neighbor noticed that a solid sheet of ice had formed over their front door. The neighbor called Bob and Karen’s phone in Santa Fe and got Platinum’s contact information from their answering machine.
Although it was 9:00 P.M. on a winter evening, Vee roused a plumber and the two of them went to Bob and Karen’s house.
They found that a one-inch sheet of ice had formed on the front stairs, the front patio, and in the garage. Slipping and sliding on the ice, they discovered that the electricity was off and that a water pipe had burst on the second floor.
The plumber staunched the leak and Vee contacted a contractor to start clearing the ice, all before Vee was able to reach Bob and Karen at their home in Dallas.
What a hassle. What a mess. What a relief Platinum was on board.
references
Enough of us talking about us. What do they have to say about us?
Platinum has an extensive record of exemplary service to Santa Fe clients. Here’s a sampling of their comments:
“Professional and customer-oriented…they’re excellent.”
Fred & Brenda D.
“Vee is a pleasure to work with and is outstanding…she knows the city inside and out and is smart, persistent, and hard working.”
Pat S.
“Platinum has worked with us before and we would never think of using anyone else.”
Renate R. & Vera E.H.
“Greg listened to us and was especially helpful in communicating with us long distance.”
Leona R.
“Platinum is more than ‘good,’ they’re knowledgeable, sensitive, and courteous…they’re very competent.”
Karen S.
“Vee goes above and beyond…I am a real estate professional and I recognize the quality and care in her work, as well as her professionalism.”
Susan H.
“I offer my highest recommendation.”
Sister Marie B.
“We like Platinum…you’ll be happy to have them.”
Charles H.
“I can reach Greg anytime.”
Elizabeth B.
“Vee is outstanding…her thoroughness is one of her strong qualities.”
M. R. T.
“Superb service, excellent.”
Dr. Cynthia C.
Additional references are available, just ask.
the team
Local, experienced, and insured. It matters.
Vee Chavez Bybee
A native New Mexican, Vee was raised in Santa Fe and is a descendent of the Chavez family who settled in nearby Galisteo in the early 1600s.
Growing up in a traditional Hispanic household taught Vee the importance of family, languages, and the cultural wealth of northern New Mexico. She appreciates people from all cultures and countries. Although Italy is her favorite country to visit, she has traveled to the Czech Republic (where her eldest son and grandson live part time), China, France, Germany, and Mexico.
For 22 years Vee was a full-time mother and designer (electrical and interior). She gained extensive direct experience in residential and commercial real estate development. Vee worked with leading regional architects, contractors, landscapers, and interior designers from whom she learned the local building process.
In 1991, having sent all her children off to college (Princeton, UCSD, UNLV, UNM, and Yale), Vee qualified as a realtor. Since then, she has helped hundreds of clients find homes in and around Santa Fe by building trust, listening, and delivering results.
A few professional highlights:
- Built three custom Santa Fe homes (north side, east side, southeast side), including site acquisition, design, financing, and general contracting
- Co-developed La Esquina Building in 1982 (southwest corner of Lincoln and Marcy), at the time one of the two largest commercial buildings in downtown Santa Fe
- Closed hundreds of residential real estate transactions in Santa Fe County in the premium residential market segment
- Served on the Grievance and Professional Standards committees of the Santa Fe Association of Realtors
- Founded Platinum Residential Monitoring, Santa Fe’s leading full-service home tending company
Vee has four grown children and three grandchildren, two of whom are in college (Brown University, UPenn).
Vee attended the University of New Mexico, is a dedicated art collector—particularly Native American pottery and textiles (since the early 1970s) and, as well as regional painters—and is an avid reader.
Gregory Michael Bybee
Greg, a Santa Fe native, is the second of Vee’s four children.
Even before completing his university studies, Greg started his career as a consulting chemist, first within the University of New Mexico and then as an associate with a large EPA contractor based in Walnut Creek, California. He created his own firm in 1993 and commenced traveling to clients, courts, and cleanup sites throughout the US and its territories.
In 2008, Greg restricted his out-of-state consultancy to throw his efforts behind Platinum Residential Monitoring, a new family business.
A few professional highlights:
- Founded ECD Environmental LLC, where he has developed several proprietary processes for the treatment of contaminated soil and water and serves as an expert witness in both depositions and courtroom testimony
- Developed and implemented analytical chemical methods for detecting chemical warfare agents and their metabolites in human tissue while at the New Mexico Department of Health, Centers for Disease Control
- Involved in chemical analysis and remediation monitoring at several Superfund cleanup sites
- Presented at the 198th meeting of the American Chemical Society: “Bioanalytical Synthesis of (A – B) Polyesters by Enzyme-Catalyzed Transesterification in Organic Media”
- Issued one patent and one provisional patent, both related to environmental remediation
- Awarded: FBI Community Service Award, 2004
- Joined (as a partner) Platinum Residential Monitoring, Santa Fe’s leading full-service home tending company
Greg leads fossil and Native American pottery and stone shard hunting expeditions when his niece and nephews are in town. He has performed as a solo classical guitarist and lead vocalist and electric guitarist in a band he formed in the 1990s.
Greg holds BAs in history and chemistry from the University of New Mexico, where he was on the men’s varsity soccer team. He’s a qualified emergency medical technician, trout fisher, and guitar collector.