Home Security Tips

During holidays, like Thanksgiving and Christmas, more than 13 million Americans travel to spend the holiday with friends and family, leaving their homes empty for opportunistic burglars. 

To help ensure a worry-free holiday season, and any time you're away from home year round, use these simple, convenient home and travel safety tips to keep your family and home safe:

•   In fall or winter, remove objects that might allow access to your home. For example, ladders for cleaning leaves out of gutters can be used to enter a window or scale a fence.
• Do not post travel plans on Facebook, Twitter or MySpace letting people know that you will be out of town.
•  Turn your telephone ringer down so no-one outside can hear repeated rings
•  Review your answering machine message to make sure it does not imply that you are away.
• Make sure to have all mail, newspapers, and deliveries stopped or picked up by a neighbor, friend or relative.
• Never leave a key hidden outside. Burglars know all the best hiding places.
•  Secure all windows, including those upstairs and reduce the chance of easy entry by cutting tree limbs away from second-story windows.
• Have a friend move your car occasionally if it is parked in the driveway.
• Use timers to operate lights.
• Make sure your yard is well lit at night.
• Ask police if they have a “vacation home check” program. If they do, ask them to check while you are away.
•  Have mail, newspapers and other delivered items picked up or held until your return.
• Even while at home, it pays to be smart. If you purchase any big ticket items like new electronics, break down boxes that may indicate what you bought and use trash bags to dispose of them to avoid criminals finding out what new items may be inside your home.
•  Have a Protection 1 home security system installed that includes a 24-hour fire monitoring service that automatically dispatches the fire or police department.
• Consider installing a Web-based home security system, such as eSecure from Protection 1, that allows you to check on your home while away and even arm and disarm your system from any laptop, cell phone, PDA or other Web-enabled devices.

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