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Report on home security systems australiaIs your apartment or home to be unoccupied for a few days while you leave town? That is the time your apartment or home is most vulnerable to burglars breaking in. Here is a bunch of things to do to defend your home. * The top way to secure your home is to have a sitter at home. A house where someone is staying is normally safer than a home that is not occupied. See if you can get a friend or relative to stay at home while you go on vacation. * Temporarily discontinue newspaper delivery and mail delivery for the entire time you are away. Piles of newspaper lying around lets passersby know that your house is empty. * If you have a garden or potted plants arrange for them to be watered and kept well. Or move the potted plants where they cant be seen. Plants dying from lack of care are evidence that nobody is home. * Timers on lights and tv will help. Lights should be on timers in multiple rooms. Set the timers to make the light sequence look natural. Turn on the living room lights at sunset. Around the time your retire the living room should have lights off and switch on the bedroom lights. If you commonly switch on tv at 9 and it remains on till 11 pm the timer should do the same thing. Though the lights may be on the absence of the tv glow might be sufficient evidence that the house is empty. * Ask a neighbor to drop in to your apartment or home often. Windows and curtains being worked mean that the house is inhabited. * If you live in a rented home it may be a good idea to notify the owner that the apartment or home will be empty. The landlord may want to check on it. * If you use an alarm system see to it that the person who is house sitting is aware of precisely how to work it. * Make it a point to see that the house sitter can reach you easily. The person watching over the house should be aware of who they should call should any issues come up.
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