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Closing Your Seasonal Home

, Randall Cantrell, Julie England, andMaria Portelos-Rometo

Release Date: 4/13/2026

DOI: 10.32473/EDIS-hHE887-2003

Family and Consumer Sciences

Abstract

Closing Your Home has been developed to help Florida residents make plans for protecting their homes when they are to be absent. There are things you can do to protect your home from moisture problems, deterioration of the exterior, or the intrusion of burglars and vandals.

About this Publication

This document is FCS3154, one of a series of the UF/IFAS Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences. Original publication date January 1990. Revised June 2014, October 2017, July 2021, June 2022, and April 2026. Visit the Ask IFAS website at https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication.

Authors

Virginia Peart
Virginia Peart

professor emeritus, UF/IFAS Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences,  Gainesville, FL

Randall Cantrell
Randall Cantrell
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Specialist
University of Florida

associate professor, housing and community, UF/IFAS Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences

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Julie England
Julie England
County agent
University of Florida

emeritus Extension agent III, M.S., family and consumer sciences, UF/IFAS Extension Seminole County

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Maria Portelos-Rometo
Maria Portelos-Rometo
County agent
University of Florida

Extension agent IV emeritus, Ed.D., family and consumer science, UF/IFAS Extension Sarasota County

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