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Home: Radio Shack Home Security System
The lowdown on radio shack home security systemIs your home going to be empty for days or weeks while you go out of town? That is the time your apartment or home is vulnerable to being burglarized. Here are several specific things you might want to do. * The best way out is to have a sitter at home. Having someone at home is usually safer than a house that is empty. Make arrangements for a trustworthy friend to live at your apartment while you go on vacation. * Discontinue your newspaper and mail delivery when the apartment is empty. A mailbox that is overflowing or piles of newspaper publicises that the home is unoccupied. * If you have potted plants visible from outside ensure that someone waters them. Otherwise ensure the potted plants are not visible from outside. Dying plants are a signal that nobody is home. * Put lights and tv on timers. Several rooms should have timers on lighting. The timings for lights should look natural. The living room lights should come on at sundown. When you normally go to bed turn off the living room lights and turn on the bedroom lights. If you turn on tv at 7 pm every day and it is always on till you go to bed the timer must follow those timings. Though the lights may be on the absence of the tv's light shining through can give away that your house is empty. * Arrange for a neighbor to visit your home on a regular basis. Doors and windows being opened signals that the home is inhabited. * If you rent an apartment notify the landlord that the house will be unoccupied. Your homeowner may want to watch over the house. * If you have installed an alarm system see to it that the home sitter knows how to make it run. * Make certain that the neighbor or house sitter can contact you. The person watching over the house must be well aware of who they should call should there be a problem.
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