Home watch services in Boynton Beach, FL for snowbirds and second-home owners

Home watch means a person checks on your home while you are away so a leak, a failed air conditioner or storm damage is found early. In Boynton Beach that describes a lot of owners. The city is known for large 55+ and active-adult communities such as Leisureville, begun in 1969, Hunters Run and Quail Ridge, where many owners leave for the summer, along with Intracoastal and canal-front homes and the newer West Boynton suburbs off Boynton Beach Boulevard and Lawrence Road.

BeacCorp Property Management is the firm behind this page. Randolph Scott Bell holds Community Association Manager license CAM34850 through the licensed firm CAB3255, so association documents are his daily work. He lives and works in the same community he manages and attends association meetings himself rather than sending a coordinator. That is a statement about how the office works, not a promise about visit schedules or response times.

Boynton Beach is an incorporated city with its own Building Division at City Hall, 100 E. Ocean Avenue, and an online permitting portal. If a visit finds roof, window or water damage, repairs inside the city are permitted there, not through unincorporated Palm Beach County. A licensed contractor must hold the permit for roof and window work and be present at final inspection.

Communities in the city usually run their own architectural review boards and rules, and in a condominium the association often controls the roof, the exterior and the doors and windows. Before you leave, find out what your documents say about extended absences, access for vendors, shutters and hurricane preparation, and who the association expects to be called.

Much of the beachside and mid-century core around Ocean Avenue dates to the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and many of those homes are on a second or third roof, sometimes with original single-pane or early aluminum windows. Salt air along the coast and the Intracoastal shortens the life of roof fasteners, window hardware and railings, which is one more reason an empty waterfront house should be looked at in person and not assumed fine.

Boynton Beach sits in the Wind-Borne Debris Region, with design wind speeds running roughly 165 to 175 mph, so replacement openings and new work must be impact-rated or protected by approved shutters. The exposure is strongest east of Federal Highway, where homes face the Atlantic and the Intracoastal directly. For an empty home, settle in writing who will put up shutters, secure the patio and check the property after a named storm.

Because Randolph Scott Bell is also a certified general contractor (CGC1528750) and certified roofing contractor (CCC1332751), he can tell you what a problem involves once it is found. Insurance is separate: some policies carry vacancy clauses, so ask your insurer in writing what applies while the home is empty, and read our vacation home watch guide for the questions to ask.

Whoever you choose, settle these on paper: how often the home is visited and by whom, what is checked each time, how you are told what was found, who is called first when something is wrong and who pays, how each visit is recorded, and what happens ahead of a named storm. Ask for the answers by email. This page publishes no price because the scope depends on the home; call (561) 779-3213 to ask how BeacCorp would set it up for yours.

Also see home watch in Delray Beach and Wellington, or return to home watch across Palm Beach County and BeacCorp property management in Boynton Beach.

Also in Boynton Beach: a visit that finds an old roof or original windows leads to our Boynton Beach construction page for impact windows and permits through the city, and our Boynton Beach roofing page for re-roofs in salt-air conditions; if you are weighing land or acreage west of the city, see our Boynton Beach land services page; and for a gathering when you are home for the season, see our Boynton Beach food truck page.