Keeping Your Home Safe While on Vacation

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

Install quality locks on doors and windows. It is true that an burglar who really wants to get into your house 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 house, the more likely it is a burglar will not make the attempt.

Install motion detector lights and fake security cameras on the outside of your home, or try real closed circuit TV. Use automatic timers on inside lamps and photoelectric switches on outside lights. A week or two before you go, set your timers so you can establish a routine while you are still home. There are even timers available that will vary the on/off times. Periodically have a radio or TV turned on.

Don't leave valuables where they can be easily observed from the windows. Video equipment, televisions, stereos, gun racks, etc. should be stored in basements, closets, upstairs, or left with a friend or neighbor. Equipping a storage room with a good quality lock makes a safe storage area too. Leave your drapes in the normal position. Have a friend close them at night and open them at daylight, or use sheers. Sheers help to obscure the view into the house without making it obvious, as drapes would, that no one is home.

Put at least two lamps and a radio on automatic timers. Leave the bathroom light on with the door ajar to add to the impression that someone may be home. Close and lock your garage doors to prevent someone from breaking in through the garage. Consider putting a lock in the track of overhead garage doors. Remember, attached garages that are not kept locked provide the opportunity for an burglar to get into the garage and work in privacy at breaking into your house, maybe even with the assistance of your own tools!

Cover your garage windows to prevent anyone from seeing the contents of your garage and see whether your auto is at home. Check your homeowner's insurance policy- does it provide theft coverage while you're staying in hotels and motels? It should. Don't let your travel plans become widely known.

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

-Check the house every day for anything unusual.
-Park in your driveway or in front of the house.
-Occasionally place garbage in your garbage can.
-Cut the lawn.
-Pick up your mail and newspapers.

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