How to Keep Your Home Secure?
As the economy continues to sputter along and more and more people are losing their jobs and cannot find other work it drives some of these people to crime.
Burglarizing homes can be a very profitable area and they know what to look for, where to look in your home, and the easiest way to gain entrance.
If you want to secure your home the first thing to do is make your home an undesirable target.
Here are some of the things you can do to make your home undesirable and have the burglar call on the home down the street: 1.
Get a watch dog.
The bigger the dog, the better the job the dog can do.
The dog protects your property from access on the side and access to the main electrical panel.
He also protects entrance to the back of the property were the burglars can have free reign of access.
2.
Get an alarm system and put signs in your front and back advertising the alarm.
When you install the system make sure the control panel in not visible from the front door or the back door.
Make sure you use it when you leave the property.
Also install a motion detector when you install the system.
Burglars like to break glass patio doors to enter and without motion detectors it will not set off the alarm.
3.
Install a camera system also.
Many burglars will enter and exit your property in 10 minutes.
If the alarm goes off the police will be there in 15 minutes.
The camera will record who was in your property, where they looked, and will even assist the police in finding them.
Make sure you advertise the cameras in the front and back of the home.
4.
Do not leave newspapers on your driveway or two days mail in your mailbox.
5.
How well do you know your cleaning lady, your gardener, and your pool man? They can furnish leads to the real burglars.
Best sensitive to anyone entering your home for maintenance.
6.
Leave a radio or TV on when you leave to create the effect that someone is home.
7.
Leave lights on in the house when you leave.
Not just one porch light.
That's an invite.
8.
Keep your Garage door closed 9.
Don't announce your vacation on the internet, Facebook, Twitter and any other media.
10.
If you are away park a car in the driveway.
Make your home look like someone is there.
Get a light timer to go on at twilight and off at midnight.
These things are not a guarantee that you will not be robbed, but if you follow them you are making it difficult for burglars and they would rather go to another home down the street.
Burglarizing homes can be a very profitable area and they know what to look for, where to look in your home, and the easiest way to gain entrance.
If you want to secure your home the first thing to do is make your home an undesirable target.
Here are some of the things you can do to make your home undesirable and have the burglar call on the home down the street: 1.
Get a watch dog.
The bigger the dog, the better the job the dog can do.
The dog protects your property from access on the side and access to the main electrical panel.
He also protects entrance to the back of the property were the burglars can have free reign of access.
2.
Get an alarm system and put signs in your front and back advertising the alarm.
When you install the system make sure the control panel in not visible from the front door or the back door.
Make sure you use it when you leave the property.
Also install a motion detector when you install the system.
Burglars like to break glass patio doors to enter and without motion detectors it will not set off the alarm.
3.
Install a camera system also.
Many burglars will enter and exit your property in 10 minutes.
If the alarm goes off the police will be there in 15 minutes.
The camera will record who was in your property, where they looked, and will even assist the police in finding them.
Make sure you advertise the cameras in the front and back of the home.
4.
Do not leave newspapers on your driveway or two days mail in your mailbox.
5.
How well do you know your cleaning lady, your gardener, and your pool man? They can furnish leads to the real burglars.
Best sensitive to anyone entering your home for maintenance.
6.
Leave a radio or TV on when you leave to create the effect that someone is home.
7.
Leave lights on in the house when you leave.
Not just one porch light.
That's an invite.
8.
Keep your Garage door closed 9.
Don't announce your vacation on the internet, Facebook, Twitter and any other media.
10.
If you are away park a car in the driveway.
Make your home look like someone is there.
Get a light timer to go on at twilight and off at midnight.
These things are not a guarantee that you will not be robbed, but if you follow them you are making it difficult for burglars and they would rather go to another home down the street.
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