The police do a good job of educating crime. You can not prevent crime. The safety, family safety and protection of their property at your expense.
• One of the highlights of your home is most vulnerable when it is empty for an extended period. Darkene windows, mail or regular collection and closed windows in hotter weather all advertise your absence to a potential thief.
• The best protection for your home during your absence is to have a house-sitter. A trusted friend can stay home to care for your pets and / or plants, in addition to ensuring that the house is inhabited.
Control · Have a neighbor in the apartment while you are gone – turn on lights, radios or televisions and the opening and closing curtains to give your home the appearance of someone home.
• If you do not have a friend or neighbor to houses it or check your apartment while you are away – even if you – you not only need light, but to a TV or radio on a timer have. If you’re like me and have the TV most of the time you are at home [NOTE:. I do not see is] just background noise, the absence of sound and light in the windows announces that you are not there.
· Ensure that the review knows your home during your absence, how to work the alarm system, and that in the event of a problem call.
° if you have a house sitter, stop your mail and newspaper or other delivery. Nothing gives an empty apartment better than a stack of newspapers or an overflowing mailbox. Ask delivered a near neighbor to pick up packages while you are away.
• If you have a garden or plants on your balcony, make sure someone watering the plants regularly or put the plants where you can not see. Plants slowly dying due to lack of water can your absence.
• You check your lease. Many landlords require that they be notified if his department will be empty for a period of time (this is so that they go in an emergency, even if you can not.) If you do not need is a geriatric nurse.