6 Tips to Keep Your Home From Being Burglarized

Ed Pluchar with Real People Realty Podcast

If you want to go the extra mile to keep your home safe from trespassers, here are six tips you can follow.

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Here are six tips you can use to prevent your home from being burglarized:
1. Maintain your doors and locks: Make sure your locks are actively engaged and are strong and secure. You can also add a tamper-proof/kick-proof steel reinforcement to your lock.
2. Maintain your windows and sliding doors: Most homeowners who have sliding doors leading to their back porch lock them with a built-in aluminum bar and/or a dowel inserted into the door’s track. If your lock isn’t engaged and you’re only depending on the dowel, however, it is possible for a burglar to lift the panel of the door off its track.
3. Use safety lighting: We tend to turn our lights on outside for the simple reason that it lets us know what’s going on outside around our property. If the lights are on outside and off inside, you can see any trespassers but they can’t see you. Motion lighting is also a very strong deterrent to any unwanted visitors.

These tips will help keep your home and family safe.

4. Close your curtains: If you’re like me and you have your computer in a room where someone could potentially see it through the window outside, closing your curtains will obstruct their view so they can’t see if there’s anything inside the house that might be worth breaking into it for.
5. Be mindful of your spare keys: When moving into a new home, many inspectors will recommend you change your locks and your keys because you don’t know who else might have a spare key to your house. One tactic you can use to solve this problem is a keypad that allows you to punch in a digital code to enter the house. If you’re worried about someone knowing your code, you can simply change it.
6. Consider installing an alarm system: Most houses I show have alarm systems, and they’re a strong deterrent. Some people put up signs claiming they have a camera on the premises even if they don’t. If you want a much friendlier alarm system, you can also consider getting a dog.
If you have any questions about keeping your home from being burglarized or you’re in the market to buy or sell a home, give me a call or shoot me an email. I’d be happy to help you.