Leaving Condo For The Season

Checklist for Season’s End
• Be sure the management company & a neighbor has a key to your condo as well as the garage door code.
• Provide updated contact information to the management company.
• Stuff towels around your sliding doors as well as on your window sills to soak up any moisture that may come in due to driving winds.
• Securely close and lock all windows, sliding doors, elevators, & entrance doors.
• Remove all items from your lanai as well as “A” unit front porches.
• Close hurricane shutters.
• Service your air conditioner, as well as install a clean filter.
• Install fresh batteries in your smoke detectors.
• If you choose to leave your refrigerator running, empty both your refrigerator and freezer – we have numerous power outages in the summer. Turn off ice maker.
• Turn off circuit breakers to your hot water tank, stove, microwave, refrigerator, washer & dryer.
• Unplug the water pump in B&C unit garages.
• Unplug electronic appliances such as TV’s, radios, computers, as well as phone lines/modems/cable connections.
• Consider running your oven thru the CLEAN cycle so there are no spills that might attract ants.
• Make arrangements with a neighbor or care taker to put out trash and bring trash container back in.
• Dispose of open containers of dry foods that might attract insects.
• Stop mail and newspaper delivery.
• Turn off the water valves at your washer as well as at the toilets.
• Pour a bit of bleach into the toilet bowls and wrap them with saran wrap.