| Install a security system. You can call various law | | | | running away. |
| enforcement groups or even some security | | | | One simple way to protect your house is to get in the |
| companies to come and do an evaluation of how | | | | habit of locking all doors and windows. Invest in a few |
| secure your house is. They can point out to you any | | | | good dead bolts and strike plates for the bottom of |
| potential weak spots that could be a threat to your | | | | the door. Getting eyebolts for your window can keep |
| home. It is important to install a good security alarm in | | | | thieves from forcing them open. However, the safest |
| your house, particularly one that automatically connects | | | | type of windows are glass block windows, as they |
| to the company when something in your house occurs. | | | | cannot be broken through. They are not at all pleasing |
| That way a third party can call the police in case you | | | | to the eye, but they guarantee security, and could be |
| are in danger and will try to contact you immediately. | | | | used in places that the eye does not see often, |
| One way to prevent is to predict. Once in a while, you | | | | maybe a back window or a basement window. |
| and a friend should take a walk around your property | | | | Protecting your home means protecting everything in it. |
| and take on the mind of a thief. Imagine that if you | | | | Do a regular household inventory of all the valuable |
| were a thief, what break-in points would you take | | | | items you possess. That way, you know what is |
| advantage of. Try to see if you can tell whether the | | | | missing if a thief does get in, and you can provide a list |
| inhabitants are home or not. You might notice that a | | | | to the police who can more successfully retrieve your |
| garbage can out in the front of the house on a day | | | | stolen goods and items. It is helpful to have a visual |
| that is not garbage day could trigger people not being | | | | inventory, as well, by taking a video camera and |
| home. Also, having no lights on, or having the drapes | | | | capturing footage of the contents of each room to |
| shut, or even doing things out of the ordinary, like | | | | see what is there and then to watch it again after a |
| turning off the sprinklers, or clearing the driveway of | | | | burglary. |
| toys can let a thief feel confident enough to break in. | | | | It's good to invest in a safe box or some kind of highly |
| Another simple way to protect your home is to utilize | | | | secured vault for your most precious items. These can |
| a few thief deterrents. You might want to get a | | | | be locked up with a code or some kind of lock device |
| threatening or barking dog and keep it in the backyard | | | | and should store things that are most worthy. |
| so that the thief knows he will have to face a | | | | Irreplaceable documents, family jewels, and even |
| menacing guard. If you don't actually have a dog, you | | | | firearms with the ammunition kept apart from it. You |
| can still erect a Beware of Ferocious Dog sign and | | | | never want the burglar to find the firearms and the |
| then have an electronic recording of dog barking in the | | | | ammunition, as that can be highly dangerous for you |
| background. House alarms and bright lights that flash | | | | and your family. |
| on with sensors can frighten a thief and send him | | | | |