Snowbirds----
1. Make sure your home insurance is up to date and paid.
2. Sign up for a Volunteer Police watch program to keep tabs on your home when you are gone.
3. Turn water off to your refrigerator ice maker
4. Purchase a commercial alarm system for your complete home. The alarm system should be throughout your home and connected to a 24hr. alarm security call center and your local police/fire dept. It is cheap insurance and gives you peace of mind.
5. make sure a reliable friend in town has a complete set of keys for your house. Be sure this friend has the correct pass word for you alarm system if they have to talk to the call center.
6. Put all your valuables i.e. jewelry into your safe deposit box.