Keep Your House Safe While on Vacation

During summer trip season, use these suggestions to protect your home 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 a way, but most burglaries are crimes of opportunity committed by small time thieves. This means that the harder you make it for someone to enter 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 photoelectric 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 can vary the on/off times. Occasionally have a stereo or TV turned on.

Don't leave valuables where they can be easily seen from the windows. Video cameras, TVs, stereos, gun collections, etc. should be stored in cellars, closets, on the second floor, or left with a family or neighbor. Equipping a storage room with a good deadbolt lock makes a good storage area too. Leave your curtains in the normal position. Have a neighbor close them at night and open them at daylight, or use sheers. Sheers help to obscure 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 partially open to add to the idea that someone is 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 intruder to get into the garage and work in privacy 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 car 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, provide your immediate neighbors a card with your important information. If you are to be gone for an extended period, you may want a trusted neighbor to:

-Check the house every day for anything unusual.
-Park in your drive or in front of the house.
-Occasionally place trash in your trash can.
-Mow the lawn.
-Get your mail and paper.

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