Reports show over half of all assaults happen in or around your home or the home of a relative, friend or neighbor.
Generally the home is your safe haven; however, with unemployment spinning out of control this is creating desperate times which are proportional to the rise in crime as well as property theft. Now is the time to tighten your home security before the intruders decided you are their next target.
Intruders target places where they can strike quickly and get out. Intruders can be very dangerous too. A thief will enter your home when you are not there because he wants your stuff not you. But intruders who inter your home while you are there may want to harm you and take your stuff. In the later situation if this attack happens in the isolation of your home, very bad things can happen.
The good news is there are several simple actions that will make your home safer and less likely to be targeted. You may have heard of the terms soft and hard targets. Soft targets are those that are not very prepared for an attack, where a hard target is prepared to deal with a threat of intrusion.
The following tips will increase a intruders perception that your home is a hard target.
Put a security company sign by your driveway and security company decals on your windows. Whether you have a security system or no, the sign and decals will send a message to intruders that this is a hard target and convince them to move on.
A beware of the dog sign in a visible place, creates the illusion of a hard target. Whether you have a dog or not intruders would rather not worry about dealing with a dog and encourage them to move to another target.
Put a motion activated barking dog alarm at the front and back doors. These are clever devices that sound like a parking dog when someone approaches your door. As above an intruder does not want to deal with a dog and move on. This gadget will help to validate your beware of the dog sign that is posted.
Motion activated lighting in and around the hose is always a good deterrent to intruders.
Install motion activated light sat the front and back doors of your home. These lights are not expensive and are fairly easy to install. An intruder is not going to target a home where there is lights putting them on center stage.
If you follow these low cost tips you have a good chance that an intruder will decide to pass on making your home a target.
Karen Abby is a security products author and a major retailer for Home Security Products. For a large selection of home security and self defense products visit 2dsecurity.com
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