Protect Your Home This Summer

With summer around the corner, it's a good idea to brainstorm on how to keep your home safe while you are away. Below are some helpful ideas to reduce the liklihood of invasion by an unwelcomed party.

• Inform a trusted neighbor that you are leaving town
• For longer vacations, notify your newspaper and mail carrier that you will be away for an extended period of time
• Make arrangments for someone else to keep up with landscaping so that the physical appearance is not a hint to those eyeing your home
• Inform your alarm company that you are going on vacation.
• Turn the volume of the ringers down on home phones so that if anyone approaches your home, they do not hear unanswered calls. Avoid leaving messages on your answering machine notifying people you are away.
• Enable automatic timers for lights throughout your home.
• Leave a car in the driveway or ask a neighbor to park theirs in your driveway temporarily to give the illusion someone is home.
• Double-check locks on all doors, windows and fences.
• Leave blinds and curtains open as if you were home.
• On the day of departure, try and make this as least noticeable as possible so as to not draw attention.
• Prepare for the worst by taking inventory of valuable possessions.

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