Year Round Home Maintenance Checklist
Owning a vacation home is a great investment, both socially and financially. You get to have a place to escape your everyday life and enjoy spending time with your loved ones while also enjoying the financial security of owning more than one property. However, a lot of upkeep and year-round home maintenance goes into keeping your vacation home ready for you whenever you need it.
What Kinds Of Year–Round Home Maintenance Is Needed?
The exact types of maintenance your home will need throughout the year will vary based on several factors, such as the age and current condition of your home, whether your vacation home has a pool or not, and the landscaping.
Depending on how often you visit your home away from home, you may also want to hire a housekeeper ahead of your next visit so that everything will be clean and tidy when you arrive. You won’t need to spend time cleaning your house from the accumulated dust over time, and you’ll enjoy fresh bedding and towels without having to do the laundry yourself.
Additionally, you may not know that many homeowners insurance companies will not cover any damages that happen if the home is empty for more than 30 days. For this reason, it is a good idea to hire a house sitter from time to time. This will also deter burglaries and other property crimes.
If you own a home in South Florida, there is always the threat of tropical storms and hurricanes during hurricane season, which typically lasts from the first day of June through the last day of November. The structural damage from hurricanes can be immense, and repairs can be complex and time-consuming. If you will be spending time at your home at any point during hurricane season, it is important to know how to prepare and stay safe if a hurricane happens.
What Are The Advantages Of A Home Maintenance Company?
At Nest Home Management, we provide all the above-mentioned year-round home maintenance services, plus many other services and programs. We offer:
- Weekly home inspections to make sure your home is safe while you are away
- Affordable home repairs and upgrades done by qualified, licensed contractors
- Emergency response and hurricane preparation to minimize damage and repair costs
Many non-Floridians are very concerned about hurricanes. We want to assure you that we take all the precautions we can to protect your seasonal home from storm damage, and we can also have any damage that does occur because of a hurricane or tropical storm repaired.
This is our protocol for preparing your home to withstand a hurricane with minimized damage and what we will do after the hurricane to check on your home
- Send updates before the storm straight from the National Hurricane Center
- Close all the hurricane shutters and bring any outdoor furniture or loose items inside
- If possible, we will keep in contact with you before, during, and after the storm.
- Open the shutters and put everything back outside after the storm.
- Inspect your home and property for damages after the storm.
- Set you up with our vendors if any cleanup or damage repair is needed.
You can rest assured we will treat your home like our home.
Whether you want to renovate and upgrade your vacation home, need to maintain the pool and/or landscape, or simply want a human present every now and then to check on your home we have you covered.
Year Round Home Maintenance With Nest Home Management
We are based in Boca Raton and serve the southern part of Palm Beach County. We are fully licensed and insured and available 24/7.
At Nest Home Management we’ll work hard to take great care of your home. Contact us today to get started with year-round home maintenance.