Your Florida home and boat. Watched, documented, ready.
Private second-home and boat care for coastal owners from Ormond Beach to Edgewater — Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach Shores, Ponce Inlet, New Smyrna Beach and every town between. Scheduled visits, meticulous photo reports, and one person who knows your property.
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- NHWA accredited — #1004
- Bonded & insured
- Background checked
- Same caretaker, every visit
- Capped at 40 homes
Not a drive-by. A documented standard of care.
Anyone can glance at a house. I follow a written checklist on every visit, photograph what I see, log temperature and humidity, and track each concern in every report until it’s closed out—so nothing is left to memory.
A consistent caretaker
The same person every visit — knows your home, its quirks, its baseline, its shutoffs.
Evidence, not assurances
Dated, timestamped photographs prove exactly what was checked and when.
Discreet key control
Anonymized property IDs, secured credentials, and a logged check-in / check-out system.
One number for everything
Vendors, storms, contractor access — all of it comes through me.
“Home Watch is a visual inspection of a home or property, looking for obvious issues.” — the official definition of the National Home Watch Association, the organization that sets the standards for the Home Watch industry, of which Anchor & Key is an accredited member. Every visit begins there; the standard on this page is what I add to it.
The NHWA Accredits Home Watch Services Only. Anchor & Key is NHWA #1004 — checkable in the association’s own directory.
Two ways to keep watch. One standard of care.
Every membership includes the full scope below—the plans differ in how often I visit, and the rate is set by the size of the home. More time between visits means more unobserved time; most members choose Coastal Watch.
Coastal Watch
from$199 / mo
2 visits / month · up to 1,800 sq ft
Two scheduled visits each month — my recommended cadence for most seasonal owners. Two contractor visits and one arrival or departure a year, plus my direct cell line.
Choose CoastalFull Care
from$399 / mo
Weekly · up to 1,800 sq ft
Weekly visits and a quarterly contractor appointment — for waterfront and higher-value homes. First in the post-storm queue, and two arrival or departure services a year.
Choose Full Care| to 1,800 sq ft | 1,801–3,000 | 3,001–4,500 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coastal Watch — 2 visits / month | $199 | $269 | $359 |
| Full Care — weekly | $399 | $509 | $649 |
All plans include a one-time $249 onboarding and bill monthly — only for the months your home is unoccupied.
- In residence: the membership rate stops. A $49/month hold keeps your key secured, your profile current and your place in the book — every service stays available à la carte.
- The one pause I’ll argue against: pausing while the place sits closed — the risk doesn’t leave when you do.
- Larger or more complex homes: over 4,500 sq ft, or with pools, docks & outbuildings, are quoted individually.
Included in every membership
- Scheduled visits (by plan)
- Photo report each visit
- Temperature & humidity readings
- Leak, HVAC, pest & entry checks
- Issue tracking
- Maintenance reminders
- Annual building market snapshot
- Contractor access (by plan)
- Secure property & emergency profile
- A single point of contact
Once a year, a real read on your building.
Every member receives a written annual market snapshot for your building: which units have recently sold, what’s changed in your association, and how the market is moving on your stretch of coast — in plain English, from someone who watches it every week. Most owners are guessing about their building. You won’t be.
It’s market information, not a formal appraisal or valuation — and no obligation to list, ever. A read, not a pitch.
Additional services, billed separately
| Additional scheduled visit | $95 |
| Emergency visit — business hours | $150 |
| Emergency visit — after hours | $225 |
| Contractor access — first hour | $75 |
| Additional contractor time | $65 / hr |
| Arrival preparation | $199 |
| Departure closing | $199 |
| Post-storm visit (one-off) | $199 |
| HVAC filter change | $35 |
| Grocery stocking | cost + $75 |
| Maintenance coordination | $95 |
Hourly work has a one-hour minimum, then bills in 15-minute increments. Business hours are 8am–6pm, Monday to Friday.
Three one-time services, no commitment.
Arrival Opening — $249. Your place opened properly before you arrive: AC set, water handled, everything checked and photographed. Departure Closing — $249. Closed properly when you leave, documented the same way. Book both ends of the season together for $449.
Trip Watch — $249. Away a few weeks with nobody going in? Up to three visits across three weeks, with the same timestamped photo report members receive; additional visits $95. Your key comes back at the end.
One Trip Watch per property per year, six weeks maximum — when a place needs more than that, it needs a membership, and I’ll say so. One-time services carry no post-storm priority; members are visited first, in the published order.
A boat in the water is never not sinking.
It is only sinking slowly, because a pump is winning. Weekly, in-water vessel watch at Halifax Harbor and Ponce Inlet — and at a private dock behind your own house, if I already watch the home. The bilge photographed every single visit, so you can see the pump winning.
Where it runs, what a visit covers, and what it isn’t →
Boat Watch
$7 / foot / month
Minimum $199 · weekly
Weekly, in-water. The bilge, the lines, the power, the cabin — photographed every visit.
- 24 ft → $199 · 32 ft → $224
- 40 ft → $280 · 50 ft → $350
Boat Watch + Systems
$11 / foot / month
Minimum $329 · weekly
Everything in Boat Watch, plus the systems that quietly die when a boat sits unused for a season.
- Battery charge management
- Two technician meets a year
- Priority in the post-storm queue
- 32 ft → $352 · 40 ft → $440 · 50 ft → $550
The bilge — every visit
Water level, pump cycling, and the float switch physically tested. A timestamped bilge photo on every single visit. This is the product.
Lines, power & cabin
Dock lines checked for chafe and re-tensioned for tide and wind. Shore power and charger confirmed, battery voltage logged. Canvas, cabin humidity, thru-hulls, and any sheen in the slip.
Why there is no monthly plan
A bilge pump fails silently. By the time anyone notices, the boat is on the bottom and it is an insurance fight, not a repair. Monthly checks on a boat in the water aren’t watching it — they’re documenting how it sank. So I don’t sell them.
And no dry-stack watch
If your boat is on a rack in the air, there is nothing to watch — no bilge, no lines, no shore power, no float switch. Some operators will sell you it anyway. Save your money.
One-time $199 onboarding, either tier: vessel profile, full photo baseline, systems inventory, seacock & shutoff locations, marina and dockmaster contacts, your insurer and policy, emergency contacts.
One stretch of coast, Ormond Beach to Edgewater.
Every town on this stretch is on my route — beachside and mainland alike. One continuous corridor is why the schedule holds, and why the same person can walk every property, every time.
If it’s between Ormond Beach and Edgewater, it’s in the service area — single-family homes, condos, townhomes, riverfront or beachside alike. Boat Watch serves in-water vessels at Halifax Harbor and Ponce Inlet, and at a member’s own dock.
An honest storm policy, published in advance.
Before it
I don’t do storm preparation — not shutters, not boarding up, not bringing in the furniture. Every owner needs that in the same 48 hours, and one person cannot be in thirty condos at once. A company that sells you it anyway is selling a promise that breaks on the one day it mattered.
I’ll hand you the vendors who do it properly, well before the season starts.
After it
This is the part I do, and everyone’s worst day still arrives on the same day — so I publish the order rather than promise a time. No estimate before the storm, because roads, curfews and building access will decide it.
The queue: Full Care first, then Coastal Watch by length of membership. You’ll get a text the moment I have been inside your unit, and a full report within 24 hours of that.
You’ll know your home is fine before you finish your coffee.
After each visit, a clean digital report arrives in your inbox—so the answer to “how’s the house?” is always a scroll away, not a phone call.
- Overall status summary — at a glance
- Indoor temperature & humidity readings
- 15–25 clear, room-by-room photographs
- Concerns flagged, with my recommendation
- Your next scheduled visit
Leaving for a stretch? Close the place up properly.
I wrote down the close-up I’d run on my own place before it sat empty for a season — 33 checks across water, power, humidity, the balcony, and the paperwork nobody remembers. Each one with the why behind it, on one printable page.
- The valve-and-breaker order that protects your water heater
- The refrigerator decision people get wrong
- The setting that matters more than temperature in a Florida summer
- What to photograph in the last hour — and why you’ll be glad you did
Opening your checklist… tap here if it doesn’t open.
One person holds your key. You’re looking at him.
I’m Robert Kirkland. I’m an active Florida real estate agent working this coast every week, and Anchor & Key is my own company — deliberately small. Every visit is mine: no crew, no rotation, no subcontractors. The person who meets you at your assessment is the same one checking behind your toilets in August.
This isn’t new work for me. Since 2021 I’ve inspected vacant and unoccupied properties for lenders — scheduled visits, condition photographed, a written report going to someone who couldn’t see the place for themselves. Anchor & Key is that same discipline, applied to homes people actually love.
That matters for one reason: pattern recognition. Thirty visits in, I know what your unit sounds like, which stain was already there in March, and what wasn’t there last month. A rotating technician can only tell you whether it’s on fire.
Enrollment is capped at 40 homes so that stays true. And before you hand me — or anyone — a key, read the ten questions I’d ask first. I wrote them to be asked of me too.
From owners who travel, in their own words.
“I recently heard about Anchor & Key and decided to use them for my condo in Port Orange. With my traveling, it is so helpful to have someone I trust going in and inspecting my place. I enjoyed meeting Robert while he explained the services, and I look forward to the reports.”
“My husband and I frequently travel for extended periods of time. I was told about Anchor & Key and it has worked out so well. Robert is very knowledgeable and works with an extensive check list that he sends us weekly. It gives us such peace of mind to know Anchor & Key is keeping an eye on our home.”
What people ask before they sign up.
What happens if something’s wrong between scheduled visits?
A home watch visit is a snapshot on a schedule, not a camera watching the house every second — that’s true of any home watch service, and I’d rather say it plainly than let you assume otherwise. If you already know something needs eyes on it sooner — a storm's coming, a neighbor calls — I can run an emergency visit ($150 business hours, $225 after hours). Outside of that, the value is in the schedule holding, every time, without fail.
Who’s liable if something is damaged?
Anchor & Key is bonded and insured, and every visit is photographed, timestamped and logged specifically so there’s a clear record of your home’s condition at each visit. I don’t perform repairs, so I won’t cause damage doing work I’m not licensed for — anything beyond a visual check goes to a licensed vendor, with your approval first.
Does my condo association or HOA need to approve you?
Usually, yes — access to a condo or gated community typically runs through the association or its manager, and I coordinate directly with your building’s front desk, manager or board once you give the go-ahead, so it’s on record with them too, not just with you.
A neighbor already offered to keep an eye on it — why do I need this?
They mean it, and they’re still not really going in. They don’t know to feel the floor behind the toilet, or that the air handler drain is what floods the unit below yours — and if they did find something, telling you is the last thing they’d want to do. A written checklist and a dated photo report don’t depend on someone else’s good intentions.
What’s the difference between Trip Watch and a membership?
Trip Watch is for a short, defined absence — up to three visits across three weeks, no commitment, your key comes back at the end. One Trip Watch per property per year, six weeks maximum. When a place needs more coverage than that, it needs a membership, and I’ll tell you so rather than keep selling one-off visits.
Can I pause my membership while I’m in town?
Yes — while you’re in residence the membership rate stops and a $49/month hold keeps your key secured and your place in the book. The one pause I’ll push back on is pausing while the home sits closed up; that’s exactly when the risk is highest. Full details are in the membership section above.
Request your complimentary Second-Home Property Care Assessment.
I’ll walk your property, answer your questions, and show you a real monthly report—no obligation. Enrollment is capped at 40 homes to keep the route tight and the service exceptional.
I’ll be in touch within one business day to find a time. If it’s urgent, call or text me directly at (386) 690-5192.
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