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Details about brinks home security logoIs your home or apartment to be empty for even a few days while you take a vacation? That is when your home is most susceptible to burglars breaking in. Here is what to help harden your home against burglaries. * The best defense for your home is to have a keeper or sitter at home. Having someone stay at home is always safer than an unoccupied home. Try getting a trustworthy friend to remain at your home while you travel. * Temporarily discontinue newspaper and mail delivery when you travel out of town. Unread newspaper and mail informs potential thieves that nobody is home. * If you have a garden or potted plants ensure that someone waters them. Or remove the potted plants away from sight. Plants wilting slowly are a signal that no one is home now. * Use timers on the lights, radio and tv. Use timers to control lights in many rooms. The way the lights are switched on and off should look natural. The living room lights should come on at sundown. Subsequently the living room should have lights off and switch on the bedroom lights. If you generally turn tv on at 8 pm most days and have it on till midnight or so the timer should stick to those times too. Though the lights may be on the absence of light from the tv might give away that the home is unoccupied. * See if a neighbor can drop into your place often. Windows being open now and then indicate that somebody is home. * If you live in a rented apartment let the owner know that you are traveling. The homeowner may want to watch over it now and then. * If you have installed a burglar alarm make certain that the person who is house sitting is aware of how it is to be run. * Make sure the house sitter knows how to contact you. The person checking on the house must know who they should notify should any issue crop up.
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