Its tough to constantly come up with new ideas for ways to keep your property and your family (not to mention yourself) safe and secure, and yet that generation of new ideas is precisely what is needed in order for home owners to keep security conditions at optimal levels around their home. There seem to be more and more things putting our lives and our property in danger: from more frequent and catastrophic natural disasters across the country to rising crime rates that are equally far-reaching, home owners have really got their hands full when it comes to the issue of home security. Yet these days, thanks to novel technological resources such as the internet, there is more information out there at peoples fingertips than ever before and it is therefore easier to discover new ways to keep security parameters right where you want them: at their highest possible levels! To help foster this process of knowledge-acquisition and the exchange of ideas, here we want to highlight and briefly explain a few valuable ideas and resources that can help you out big time in the quest for a safer home. So, whether you live in Michigan or Florida, go ahead and take advantage of some of the following ideas; youve got nothing to lose and everything to gain, so do the smart thing and try putting a few (if not all) of the following into practice:

• Turn a dumb home into a smart home. Sometimes the worst home security risks arent those presented by external factors but rather by the home itself, and these are the problems that need to be addressed with the greatest urgency. A lot of homes out there across the United States have got rather antiquated electrical wiring arrangements in place, and this not only deprives them of being able to use a smart wiring arrangement to achieve secondary security objectives but it represents a real and present fire hazard. A great decision any home owner could take would be to turn their house into a smart home by consolidating the wiring onto one remotely controllable system. In this way youll be able to not only avoid fire hazards, but youll be able to create appliance on/off schedules and monitor aspects of your home from a distance (anywhere you have cell phone coverage or internet access).



• Treat your yard with love. Its a much lower-tech idea, but it can be just as effective from a home security perspective. Constant and clever landscaping work can give you a major security edge over criminals of all sorts by eliminating areas where shadows offer them the ability to hide from sight and creating physical barriers that make it more difficult to break into your home. Simply trimming branches of large trees and keeping hedges nice and cropped can help maximize visibility throughout your yard area (something no burglar will enjoy), and planting thorny bushes below ground-floor windows can create the sort of physical obstacle that will have burglars moving along in search of an easier target. (Finally, landscaping work can help reduce fire hazards in the surroundings of your home, which is a prime home security concern.)