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[quote=Anonymous]I don't do anything special if we leave for a week. We do a little more when we leave town for 3 months over the summer but not much.

I do:
- turn the heat up/down a little - at our summer house we can do that remotely, and tend to keep it very cold (50-55) in the off season
- Toss food that won't last - much more comprehensive when we leave for the summer than for a week
- empty trash
- arrange for trash bins to be brought in if needed

I don't:
- worry about lights - we have a bunch of lights on smart plugs already that go on/off every day and I can adjust those remotely if needed
- turn off the mail - it goes through the mail slot and is there when we get home or the cleaning person picks it up and puts it on the desk
- turn off the water/hot water - probably should, we do turn it off in the summer house
- cancel the newspaper - I stopped getting print delivery a couple of years ago because they routinely kept delivering it even when we had a vacation hold

Things like outdoor water is just a seasonal thing - no need to do it because we shut it off a month ago.[/quote]

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