Home watch services in Lantana, FL for seasonal and second-home owners

Home watch means a person checks on your property while you are away, so a leak, a failed air conditioner or storm damage is found early. Lantana is a small town on the Lake Worth Lagoon with the Intracoastal on its east side, and its housing is older and more mixed than the big resort cities beside it: single-family blocks, smaller condominium buildings and manufactured-home communities, many owned by people who leave for the summer or rent them out.

BeacCorp Property Management is the firm behind this page. Randolph Scott Bell holds Community Association Manager license CAM34850 through the licensed firm CAB3255, and as a certified general contractor (CGC1528750) and certified roofing contractor (CCC1332751) he can also say what a problem involves once it is found. 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 credentials and how the office works, not a promise about visit schedules or response times.

Lantana is an incorporated town and permits through its own building department, not through the Palm Beach County office that handles unincorporated areas. If a visit finds damage, repairs inside town limits are permitted by the town, and roof and window work must be pulled by a licensed contractor. Confirm the parcel before you assume, because addresses with a Lantana mailing address can sit in unincorporated county territory or in a neighbouring town.

Older housing changes what a home watch visit is looking for. A house built before modern wind-load and roof-deck requirements may have an older roof covering, original windows and wiring or plumbing that has aged, and a small leak in any of them has months to spread while the owner is away. For a seasonal owner it is worth asking a licensed contractor what the roof and openings will need before the next storm season, not after it.

If you own a manufactured home, the rules differ again: such homes are built to a federal code and anchored with tie-downs, and park rules often control exterior changes, so check both your documents and the permit path before you commission work. Where the property is in a condominium or homeowners association, read its notices for extended absences, vendor access and hurricane preparation.

All of Palm Beach County, Lantana included, sits inside the Florida Building Code's Wind-Borne Debris Region, so replacement openings and new work must be impact-rated or shutter-protected. Parcels near the lagoon and the Intracoastal face more wind and water exposure than inland streets, and flood zones vary block by block, so look up the FEMA flood zone for the specific parcel.

For an empty property, settle in writing who secures shutters and the patio, and who checks the property after a named storm. Insurance is separate from home watch: some policies carry vacancy clauses, so ask your insurer in writing what applies while the property is empty, and read our vacation home watch guide for the questions to ask.

Whoever you choose, settle these on paper: how often the property 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 so you hold a copy. This page publishes no price because the scope depends on the property; call (561) 779-3213 to ask how BeacCorp would set it up for yours.

Also see home watch in Lake Worth and Boynton Beach, or return to home watch across Palm Beach County.

Also in Lantana: once you are back for the season and hosting, our Lantana food truck page covers catering for a gathering at home or in your community.