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Some Helpful Hints to Avoid Home Invasion
TO AVOID HOME INVASION
Home invasion is frightening. What is sad, so many of the victims are the elderly who are the most vulnerable. We all want to feel safe in our own homes but this is not always true.
We purchased our home from an elderly woman who had experienced a home invasion through a carport entrance to the kitchen. This is what was done to make her home safe.
All our windows had holes drilled on each side and a blunt pin, similar to a nail, was placed in these holes. Our windows cannot be opened from outside.
The other thing they did was on the window to the garage, on the inside is a decorative metal grate that is screwed over the window glass.
All the doors have double bolt locks.
Please go to our Home Security page to read the true story of personal friends who experienced a Home Invasion.
We hope these articles will help you see the need and give you tips to improve the safety of your home and your neighborhood.
To have a safe neighborhood all of us need to be good neighbors by watching for suspicious persons or cars and then contact the police if you see something unusual.
For more information on home invasion prevention, call your local police.
Criminals generally look for opportunities that require the least effort and offer low risk and high gain.
Here are some ways to make your house less of a target of Home Invasion:
1. According to a study displaying window decals and yard signs can decrease your chances of a home invasion by 75%.
Go to our "Home Security Systems" page to get:
Free Security Stickers if you buy anything on our Home Security page
or You only pay $6. shipping and we send you 1 page of Security Stickers.
2. You can help secure your WINDOWS from being slid open by placing pins through the window frames. (this is one of the methods we use)
3. Consider a siren safety lock similar to what some Hotels use. Home invasions often are push-in robberies. Don't open your door unless you know the person. Keep your door locked.
4. A solid door with a double deadbolt lock can delay a burglar; and time to a thief is important to their own safety, so don't give them that time.
5. A piece of wood placed in the window track or pins through the window frames prevent sliding glass doors or windows from sliding open for the wrong person.
6. A DOG can be a great form of protection. The racket a barking dog can make and the threat of discovery could stop an intruder. The same dog can be a problem to children or visitors.
7. Keep your home and yard well lighted. Light is the enemy of the home invader.
8. Don't allow your bushes around windows to be so tall they become a cover for the home invader. If you plant bushes make sure they are the prickliest kind (for example down south the Holly bush ) that would make that invader miserable trying to get in your window. Crooks are basicly lazy, they don't want to work too hard.
9. Never leave a key hidden under a mat or over a door frame for a robber to find.
10. Never open your door to a stranger. A peep hole will allow you to see who is at your door before you open it.
11. Do not use an answering machine message that might suggest you live alone, such as "Hello, I'm not home right now." which might imply that only one person lives there. A better suggestion might be, " We are not available....".
12. When you are leaving on a trip:
*Stop all deliveries
*Connect some light or radio on a timer.
*Notify police & a good neighbor.
*Make sure someone maintains your lawn
13. Keep a cell phone, Pepper Spray or Stun Gun or even your car keys w/ your panic button as you go to the door and on your bedside table (out of reach of small children) but readily available if needed.
To see our wide array of products come to
http://www.peacemakerpepperspray.com
Home invasion is frightening. What is sad, so many of the victims are the elderly who are the most vulnerable. We all want to feel safe in our own homes but this is not always true.
We purchased our home from an elderly woman who had experienced a home invasion through a carport entrance to the kitchen. This is what was done to make her home safe.
All our windows had holes drilled on each side and a blunt pin, similar to a nail, was placed in these holes. Our windows cannot be opened from outside.
The other thing they did was on the window to the garage, on the inside is a decorative metal grate that is screwed over the window glass.
All the doors have double bolt locks.
Please go to our Home Security page to read the true story of personal friends who experienced a Home Invasion.
We hope these articles will help you see the need and give you tips to improve the safety of your home and your neighborhood.
To have a safe neighborhood all of us need to be good neighbors by watching for suspicious persons or cars and then contact the police if you see something unusual.
For more information on home invasion prevention, call your local police.
Criminals generally look for opportunities that require the least effort and offer low risk and high gain.
Here are some ways to make your house less of a target of Home Invasion:
1. According to a study displaying window decals and yard signs can decrease your chances of a home invasion by 75%.
Go to our "Home Security Systems" page to get:
Free Security Stickers if you buy anything on our Home Security page
or You only pay $6. shipping and we send you 1 page of Security Stickers.
2. You can help secure your WINDOWS from being slid open by placing pins through the window frames. (this is one of the methods we use)
3. Consider a siren safety lock similar to what some Hotels use. Home invasions often are push-in robberies. Don't open your door unless you know the person. Keep your door locked.
4. A solid door with a double deadbolt lock can delay a burglar; and time to a thief is important to their own safety, so don't give them that time.
5. A piece of wood placed in the window track or pins through the window frames prevent sliding glass doors or windows from sliding open for the wrong person.
6. A DOG can be a great form of protection. The racket a barking dog can make and the threat of discovery could stop an intruder. The same dog can be a problem to children or visitors.
7. Keep your home and yard well lighted. Light is the enemy of the home invader.
8. Don't allow your bushes around windows to be so tall they become a cover for the home invader. If you plant bushes make sure they are the prickliest kind (for example down south the Holly bush ) that would make that invader miserable trying to get in your window. Crooks are basicly lazy, they don't want to work too hard.
9. Never leave a key hidden under a mat or over a door frame for a robber to find.
10. Never open your door to a stranger. A peep hole will allow you to see who is at your door before you open it.
11. Do not use an answering machine message that might suggest you live alone, such as "Hello, I'm not home right now." which might imply that only one person lives there. A better suggestion might be, " We are not available....".
12. When you are leaving on a trip:
*Stop all deliveries
*Connect some light or radio on a timer.
*Notify police & a good neighbor.
*Make sure someone maintains your lawn
13. Keep a cell phone, Pepper Spray or Stun Gun or even your car keys w/ your panic button as you go to the door and on your bedside table (out of reach of small children) but readily available if needed.
To see our wide array of products come to
http://www.peacemakerpepperspray.com
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