Take a good look around the outside of your home both during the day and at night and make notes on where there are hiding places, dark places or windows with easy access from the ground. Trim any bushes or trees back around your house to limit the amount of cover an intruder might find appealing. Breaking into a home takes a little bit of time, and should anyone walk or drive by, the intruder will want to hide. Next, make sure your exterior lights all work and consider installing extra lighting in particularly dark area. Home improvement stores offer inexpensive remote motion detectors that will sense motion outside and turn on a light or TV inside.
Be neighborly letting your close neighbors know if you are leaving, or if you are staying, ask if they will be leaving so someone can watch for trouble. If you are leaving, stop the paper and mail. Nothing screams "I'm not home!" more than two weeks of unread newspapers in your driveway! If you are home or away. LOCK YOUR DOORS and windows and place obvious sliding door stops in your sliding doors.
Use common sense and all the security features your home has, such as deadbolts and window lock. Be observant of what is going on around you. Should you notice something amiss at your neighbor's home, call the police; should they catch a burglar, there will be one less that might break into our home. Best of all, have a great and safe Holiday season.
By Brian Hefner
Writer
for the Eagle Magazine
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