Keep Your House Secure 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 intruder who really wants to get into your house probably can find some way, but most burglaries are opportunistic crimes committed by small time thieves. This means that the harder you make it for someone to break into your house, the more likely it is a burglar will not chance the attempt.

Install motion detector lights and fake 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 go, set your timers so you can establish a pattern while you are still home. There are even timers for sale that will vary the on/off times. Periodically have a stereo or TV turned on.

Don't leave valuables where they can be easily seen from the windows. Video cameras, televisions, stereos, gun racks, etc. should be stored in cellars, closets, on the second floor, or left with a friend or neighbor. Equipping a storage closet 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 partially open 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 means for an intruder to enter the garage and work in privacy at breaking into your house, maybe even with the help 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 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 can't, provide 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 daily for anything unusual.
-Park in your drive or in front of the house.
-Occasionally place trash in your trash can.
-Mow the lawn.
-Pick up your mail and paper.

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