Snowbird Home Watch in Palm Beach County

Snowbird home watch is home watch built around a northern summer and a Florida winter: close the house correctly, inspect on a fixed cadence through heat and storms, open it before you return, and document everything. In practice that is scheduled inspection of a Florida residence during the months its owners are back north. A trained person walks the interior and exterior on a set cadence: air conditioning under load, condensate lines, humidity, every plumbing fixture, appliances, pests, roof line, shutters, pool and irrigation, and files a timestamped photo report with written exceptions. Standard cadence is every 7 to 14 days, weekly through hurricane season and for waterfront homes.

House sitting places a person in your home to occupy it. Home watch does not: nobody lives in, sleeps in, or uses the residence. We hold the keys, arrive on a documented schedule, inspect the systems, and leave. For owners of $1M+ residences the second arrangement carries far less risk and produces an actual record.

People use both phrases. We mean owner-side care of a private seasonal home, not rental property management with tenants: inspections, the preventive maintenance calendar, supervised vendor work with your approval before anything is authorized, storm readiness, and seasonal closing and opening. We do not lease the home, place tenants, or run rental turnovers. The residence stays empty and stays yours.

Every 7 days for waterfront, oceanfront, and fully furnished homes and for everyone through hurricane season; every 14 days is the practical floor and the interval most high-value Florida policies reference for water-damage coverage on an unoccupied dwelling. A named-storm approach and the post-storm assessment are additional visits.

Yes. We cool and air the residence days ahead, bring the water back on and run every fixture, test the air conditioning under load, balance the pool, start the cars, handle beds and provisioning, and clear any summer maintenance beforehand so your first week is not spent waiting on trades.

A monthly retainer set after a walk of the house; inspection-led plans often start at $750 a month, and the tiers are listed on our pricing page. It is priced per visit rather than from a square-footage table, quoted after an on-site walk of roughly forty minutes rather than from a square-footage table. Cadence, salt-air exposure, systems complexity, whether the home is furnished, and how much vendor coordination sits on top of the inspection set the number. Storm shuttering, arrival and departure preparation, and supervised contractor days are quoted separately.

Palm Beach Island, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Jupiter, Jupiter Island, North Palm Beach, Juno Beach, Singer Island, Manalapan, Gulf Stream, Delray Beach, Boynton Beach, Boca Raton, Wellington, Hobe Sound, Stuart: all of Palm Beach County's coastal and gated communities plus Hobe Sound and Stuart in Martin County, run from a base in Palm Beach Gardens.