Keep Your House Secure While on Vacation

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Keep Your House Secure While on Vacation
By Carl Ringwall

During summer trip season, use these suggestions to protect your property and to make your home appear occupied. These steps may discourage burglars and thieves.

Install quality locks on doors and windows. It is true that an intruder who really wants to get into your home probably can find some way, but most burglaries are crimes of opportunity committed by small time thieves. This means that the more difficult you make it for someone to break into your home, the more likely it is a thief will not make the attempt.

Install motion detector lights and dummy security cameras on the outside of your home, or consider real closed circuit TV. Use automatic timers on inside lamps and day/night switches on outside lights. A week or two before you leave, set your timers so you can establish a pattern while you are still home. There are even timers available that will vary the on/off times. Periodically have a stereo or TV turned on.

Don t leave valuable items where they can be easily seen from the windows. Video equipment, televisions, stereos, gun collections, etc. should be stored in cellars, closets, upstairs, or left with a friend or neighbor. Equipping a storage closet with a good quality lock makes a safe storage area too. Leave your curtains in the normal position. Have a friend close them at night and open them in the morning, or use sheers. Sheers help to hide the view into the home without making it obvious, as curtains would, that no one is home.

Put at least two lamps and a television on automatic timers. Leave the bathroom light on with the door ajar to add to the idea that someone may be home. Close and lock your garage doors to prevent someone from entering through the garage. Consider putting a padlock in the track of overhead garage doors. Also, attached garages that are not kept locked provide the means for an intruder to enter the garage and work without detection at breaking into your house, perhaps even with the assistance of your own tools!

Cover your garage windows to prevent anyone from seeing the inside of your garage and see whether your auto is at home. Check your homeowner s insurance policy- does it provide robbery coverage while you re staying in hotels and motels? It should. Don t let your travel plans be widely known.

Try to arrange for a house-sitter, but if you cannot, give your immediate neighbors a card with your pertinent information. If you are to be gone for an long period, you may want a trusted neighbor to:

-Check your home every day for anything unusual.

-Park in your drive or in front of your home.

-Occasionally place trash in your trash can.

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-Pick up your mail and paper.

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