Tips For Keeping Your Home Safe
- Lock your doors even if you are only running out to do a short errand
- Make sure your doors have a deadbolt
- Keep you garage doors closed even if you are at home
- Keep your windows locked, or have the safety latches engaged
- Do not place a note on your door informing someone you are away
- Make sure your home has sufficient exterior lighting for nighttime hours
- Install motion sensitive lighting
- Keep your house address numbers visible for emergency responders
- If you go on vacation, make arrangements for someone to pick your mail up
- Keep ladders in your garage, or locked tool shed so they are not accessible to a burglar
- Invest in a alarm system
- If a new appliance was purchased such as a new television or home theater system avoid placing the empty box outside where it is visible to others
- While vacationing, ask a trusted neighbor or family member to watch your home and pick up mail or newspapers