Fake Your Way to Home Security

Believe it or not, you do not have to spend a fortune on a home security system to make your home and family safer. Certainly, having a burglar system installed does increase your security level, particularly if your system includes monitoring by an off-site company. However, just because you can’t afford a real home security system doesn’t mean you can’t make your home safer. In fact, there are two ways to increase your home’s security without busting your budget.

The first way is to obtain decals and signs that indicate that you have a home security system installed in your house even if you don’t. There are many of these decals and signs available from home security stores and on the Internet at cheap prices. Simply buy these advertisements and place them in highly visible areas around your home. This will tell would-be burglars that you have a security system and that their chances of getting caught in the act are very high. They won’t know the difference between real signs and fake signs, and in most cases, they will decide not to take the chance of robbing your home.

Now, you might think this is false advertising and that fake signs can’t possibly fool a professional burglar, but you would be wrong. Unless they know for a fact that the company listed on your signs does not really exist, they cannot possibly know that you don’t really have a security system installed. There are so many companies out there that offer home security systems that burglars can’t know them all. For this reason, they will never be able to tell that you don’t actually have a system installed unless they try to break in. However, most of them won’t take that chance.

The other way you can protect your home without actually installing a home security system is by mounting fake surveillance cameras in conspicuous locations so that they can easily be seen by people who might want to break in. Again, fake surveillance cameras look so much like the real thing that would-be burglars won’t know the difference. You can even get fake cameras that have blinking lights on them so they actually look like they are recording that person’s every action. Most people aren’t technologically savvy enough to be able to tell fake cameras from real ones, so you can minimize your chances of becoming a victim by choosing the fake ones over the real ones and saving some real cash.

About the Author –
John is a shrewd consumer who writes about personal finance, home technology and home security topics like: security systems Fort Worth, Albany security monitoring and home alarm.