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Is your apartment to be left empty for some days or weeks while you take a vacation? That is the time your apartment or home is susceptible to break ins. Here is a bunch of things you can do to make your home less vulnerable.
* The best defense for your home is to have a house sitter. A house where someone is staying is very likely safer than a house that is empty. Check if you can get a relative or friend to remain at your apartment while you are go away.
* Halt your newspaper delivery and mail delivery when you go on vacation. Mail and newspapers lying around calls attention to the fact that the house is empty.
* If you have a garden or potted plants ask someone to maintain them. Alternatively move the potted plants away from sight. Untended plants are a clue that nobody is home.
* Use timers on the lights, radio and tv. Lights should be on timers in multiple rooms. The way the lights are switched on and off should look natural. At dusk turn on the living room lights. Later on set the timer to switch off living room lights and the lights in the bedroom should be switched on.
If you usually switch tv on at 8 and you watch it till 11 pm the timer should do the same thing. Even if the lights are on the absence of the tv's bluish glow may reveal that the home is empty.
* Get a neighbor to visit your house regularly. Curtains and windows being opened convey that the house is inhabited.
* If you live in a rented home you may want to notify your landlord that you are traveling. The homeowner may want to watch over the house.
* If you use any kind of security system make certain that the home sitter recognises exactly how to use it.
* Make sure the neighbor knows how to contact you. Whoever is checking on the home must be well aware of exactly who to call should any issue crop up.
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