Traveling?

By Robin Shapiro
Here are some preventative tips on how to make your house look lived in while you are away:
- Try to get someone to live in your house, even if it’s only for a few days. Perhaps a friend or a relative? Alternatively, if you can afford it, a paid house sitter might be a solution.
- If you can’t find a house sitter, then maybe you can find someone to check on the house at least every other day. They’d take in the mail, pick up yard litter, and put out garbage for sanitation pickup.
- You might want to have your house sitter change the positions on the window shades, move your car’s position in the driveway, arrange to have the lawn cut, hire someone to shovel snow.
- Installed timers on interior and exterior house lights might be smart.
- Closing curtains to prevent outsiders from viewing the interior of your home could be considered.
The Jewish holiday of Sukkot begins on October 16 and ends on October 23. After these joyous days there is the happy holiday of Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah on the 23rd and ending on the 25th. No work permitted for the observant on October 17, 18, 24 and 25. Real estate can slow up during these days.
Call me. Love, Robin.