Twenty-one property pages went up this week, in two families: what a wind mitigation inspection means town by town, and what home watch means for an empty Florida house. Each page below answers one question a real owner asks and carries the one local fact that changes the answer. I hold Florida Community Association Manager license CAM34850, and BeacCorp holds firm license CAB3255.
Boynton Beach: who signs the wind report your insurer asked for?
Boynton Beach is an incorporated city with its own Building Division at City Hall on East Ocean Avenue, so the roof and window permits behind a report come from the city, not the county.
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Delray Beach: which office holds your permits?
Delray Beach permits through its own Development Services Building Division on NW 1st Avenue, so the permit history for a house or association building sits with the city.
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Greenacres: whose building division is it?
Greenacres has its own Development & Neighborhood Services Building Division at City Hall on Melaleuca Lane, a different office from the Palm Beach County Building Division.
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Jupiter: what backs each feature on the report?
The Town of Jupiter has its own Building Department on Military Trail, and a roof or window permit closed there is the record that supports a feature on a wind mitigation report.
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Lake Worth: is it Lake Worth or Lake Worth Beach?
Voters renamed the city Lake Worth Beach in 2019, and it has its own Building Division on 2nd Avenue North, even though searchers still type "Lake Worth".
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Palm Beach Gardens: are you inside the city limits?
Inside the limits, permits come from the City of Palm Beach Gardens Building Division; north-county mailing addresses blur across the city, unincorporated county, North Palm Beach and Juno Beach.
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Palm Springs: which permit desk?
Palm Springs is an incorporated Village that runs its own Planning, Zoning & Building Department on Cypress Lane, not the county Building Division.
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West Palm Beach: where does a permit get pulled?
The county seat runs its own permit desk through the Development Services Department, using the city's EPL system and Civic Access portal rather than the county Building Division.
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What does home watch mean for an empty Florida house?
Someone checks the house while you are away, so a leak, a failed air conditioner or storm damage is found by a person instead of by a surprised owner weeks later; in Palm Beach County the need is mostly seasonal.
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Boynton Beach: who checks the 55+ condo while you are north?
Boynton Beach is known for large 55+ and active-adult communities such as Leisureville, begun in 1969, and many owners leave a unit empty for months.
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Delray Beach: bungalow, gated community or condo?
Delray Beach runs from century-old bungalows near the beach to newer construction farther west, and what an empty house needs checked changes along that line.
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Greenacres: what does a long absence do to a block home?
Greenacres has more than 17,000 homes, and many of its houses and condos were built in concrete block between roughly 1970 and 1999, so the original roof may be past its rated life.
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Jupiter: what does salt air do to an empty house?
Homes near the inlet and along the Loxahatchee River live with salt air, which shortens the life of fasteners, window hardware and exterior fixtures while nobody is home.
Lake Worth: what happens to an old bungalow left shut?
Much of the oldest housing in Lake Worth Beach is 1910s to 1930s wood-frame bungalow, and a house closed for months deals with salt air, summer humidity and storm risk.
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Loxahatchee: what does home watch cover on a big lot?
Loxahatchee homes sit on big lots with swales, wells and long driveways, and the permit office depends on the parcel: county, Loxahatchee Groves, Westlake or Royal Palm Beach.
Palm Beach Gardens: does the association come first?
The city has many seasonal and second homes and gated golf and country-club communities, so an association usually sets the rules before anyone checks the house.
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Palm Springs: condo or single-family checklist?
Roughly two-thirds of Palm Springs housing is single-family homes on individually owned lots with no HOA review layer; the rest sits in condominium communities such as Lake Clarke Gardens.
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Royal Palm Beach: what does an empty house need checked?
Royal Palm Beach is an inland village of gated and deed-restricted neighborhoods, and many homes belong to people who are in the village only part of the year.
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The Acreage: what does home watch mean on an acre?
The Acreage is unincorporated, so permits go through the county; the Indian Trail Improvement District, a special district and not an HOA, maintains the roads, canals and drainage swales.
Wellington: what do you do in a village of associations?
Wellington fills for the winter season and empties in spring; it has its own Building Division on Forest Hill Boulevard and most neighborhoods are deed-restricted and run by an HOA.
West Palm Beach: houses, condos and historic streets
An empty unit or house on the Intracoastal side faces humidity, salt air and storm surge risk that an inland home does not.
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What they have in common
Every page is answered by the same licensed manager, who is also a Certified General Contractor (CGC1528750), so a repair a report or a visit turns up can be scoped and supervised without a second search. Call or send the form on the property page if you want the same answer for your house or association. If you own a rental in the western communities, our new rental management page covers that side of the work.