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Home Security

Take a look at your home from the road.  Are entry ways viewable from the street or from other neighbors?  For homeowners, see our landscaping tips.  Do you have a neighborhood watch? Talk with local police about how you can make your neighborhood safer.  Do not wait until you are robbed.  An once of prevention is worth a pound of cure.  You should also mark all valuables with an identification number.

Burglars look for homes they can enter and leave quickly while avoiding detection. They don't want to have to break a window or force their way through good-quality doors and locks. They also avoid homes that appear to be occupied or those who have monitored security systems.  

You can substantially reduce your chances of being burglarized by using common sense and not taking anything for granted. Here are some simple things you can do to make your home, property and neighborhood safer.

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Outside Home Security

• Post a sign that you have a home security system
• Have a burglary prevention survey done at your residence by contacting the above number and requesting a survey.
• Make sure all doors are fitted with dead-bolt locks.
• Post neighborhood watch signs (see neighborhood watch links)
• Use key locks on inside doors within reach of windows.
• Remember to lock all your doors, including the porch and garage doors.
• Never leave notes on your door to tell people when you are not there.
• Keep trees and shrubbery kept trimmed from upper floor windows.  See Landscaping tips
• Secure sliding doors and windows with a track pin or bar.
• Keep tools, ladders, etc. in places that are not accessible to potential burglars.
• Store lawn mowers, gas barbecues and other outside appliances away from view.
• All entrances lighted with at least a 40-watt light bulb
• Light the outside of your home to discourage prowling or loitering.
• If you have an automatic garage opener, wait until your garage door is completely closed before driving away.  Unplug the system when you are away for long periods for time.

• Mark all valuables with an ID number for identification.
• Video tape every room of your house (keep at work)
• Refuse to provide information regarding your property to telephone surveys.
• Avoid leaving valuables, coin collections or large amounts of cash at home.
• Leave the same lights, TV and radio on as you would if you were home when you are gone for short periods.
• Door locks mechanism cannot be reached through the mail slot, delivery port or pet entrance.
• Shred confidential documents such as credit card receipts, canceled checks and pre-approved credit card offers.
• Join or start a neighborhood block watch.
• Have a professionally installed monitored security system.

Vacation Home Security

• Notify a neighbor of your travel plans and give them a key so they can check on your house periodically.
• Leave window shades in normal positions.
• Stop delivery of the newspaper and have a neighbor pick up your mail.
• Make arrangements for your lawn to be mowed in the summer as well as your sidewalks and driveway shoveled in the winter.
• Ask your neighbor to park his or her car in your driveway periodically while you are away.
• Use timers on interior and exterior lights.
• Double-check all doors and windows before you leave to be sure they are properly secured.
• Consider a house sitter if you don't have a security system.

Home Security Alarm System

• Notify a neighbor of your travel plans and give them a key so they can check on your house periodically.
• Leave window shades in normal positions.
• Stop delivery of the newspaper and have a neighbor pick up your mail.
• Make arrangements for your lawn to be mowed in the summer as well as your sidewalks and driveway shoveled in the winter.
 
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