These notes are for anyone who spends part of the year here and part somewhere else. For short answers, try questions from Sun City West neighbors, or follow a home watch visit from start to finish.

The small things you do on the way out the door, from the thermostat to the blinds to the buckets of water, decide how the house looks when you get back in the fall.

The Posse, your neighbors, the CC&R department, and a home watch service each look after a different part of an empty house. Here is how they fit together.

Many Sun City West houses were built in the 1980s and 1990s. Here is what we pay closest attention to in a home that has a few decades behind it.