With the mornings turning cool and the leaves beginning to take on tints of orange and red, winter will soon engulf Northeast Ohio, prompting many to look for somewhere far away from the frigid temperatures and icy conditions.

But whether one is just taking a brief trip to a warmer destination or is a snowbird, spending a majority of the winter months in the more comfortable South or West, keeping the homestead in mind when planning on going away is a task that shouldn’t be forgotten.

“When people leave, they want to come back to the same property that they left,” Jared Zak, president of Executive Home Management, a Shaker Heights-based property management company, said. “You need to be making every effort to make that happen. Typically, it’s the most basic and smallest steps that are th

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