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Making Your Home Safer When Your Neighborhood Isn’t
No one intentionally moves into a neighborhood that isn’t safe. Sometimes, people have to move to these areas because that’s where they can afford to live. However, sometimes, homeowners who have lived in a neighborhood for a long time discover that their...
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How to Keep Yourself Safe in your Home
Everyone wants to feel safe in his home. In fact, this is why we buy houses in the first place. We want a place that we can put our feet up and let go of the worries of the day. Unfortunately, houses are no longer always the safe haven we want them to...
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Do Not Give Burglars a Happy Holiday
Most people are excited about the holiday season because they get to spend time with their family and friends and they get to enjoy the giving by exchanging presents. They do not think about the other people that look at the holidays as the prime time...
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Four Reasons You Should Consider Installing a Home Security System
According to federal crime statistics, a burglary occurs in the United States around every 15 seconds. This leaves millions of people in neighborhoods just like yours, being victimized. While the vast majority of these home burglaries do not involve violence...
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A Practical Moving Schedule
Whether you have decided to move for personal reasons or you are being forced to relocate due to job-related issues, you need to start getting organized for the move so that you experience as little stress as possible. Of course, you are not going to...
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Are Hidden Cameras Effective?
When you think of security cameras, you probably have an image of the kind of cameras you see in retail stores or over the front door of some houses. They are clearly cameras and because you know they are there, you are aware that your actions are being...
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Residential Security Guards
These days, homeowners can’t do enough to keep their homes and their families safe. This includes installing a home security system, using the services of a third-party monitoring company and making common sense decisions that will make your house safer....
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Home Invasion Schemes
Home invasion is a huge threat to homeowners these days. This is when a person breaks into a house while the occupants are at home. Their intentions can vary from simple robbery to bodily harm, which is why it is essential for homeowners to understand...
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Tips for Choosing Home Security Systems and Monitoring Companies
If you turn on the nightly news, it is obvious that home invasions and burglaries are on the rise. These crimes occur in every neighborhood across the United States and can be extremely costly and traumatizing in more ways than one for the victims. When...
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Keep Your Elderly Family Members Safe
When people get older, they definitely get wiser, but unfortunately, they also slow down and become more vulnerable to dangers in the home. Even though they are still fully capable of living alone in their home, they face certain challenges that need...
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Better Security Starts with Better Landscaping
Believe it or not, but the landscaping around your house can actually make you more secure or less secure, depending on how it is designed. It can often be your first line of defense against home invasions and burglaries so it is recommended by home security...
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An Often Forgotten Aspect of Home Security – Driveway Alarms
There is no doubt that installing a home security system accompanied with security monitoring is the best way to protect both your property and your family. Today, the options in home security are vast – and all are designed to give the homeowner the...
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Improve Your Burglar Alarm System
If you are going to have an alarm system installed and you’ve chosen a wireless unit, there are a couple of suggestions that can ensure that your system is the most effective it can be. After all, the main reason for installing an alarm system is so you...
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Increase the Value of Your Home by Installing a Security Alarm
Crime is undoubtedly on the rise in the United States as well as elsewhere in the world. No one is entirely safe anymore, even in their own homes. For this reason, people are beginning to consider security alarms a must-have when looking for homes to...
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Alarm Systems for Apartments
In general, it is difficult to get a home security system installed in an apartment. There are many reasons for this, but the number one reason is that you don’t own the unit so you cannot make any permanent alterations to the property without the permission...
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Fire Safety is Home Security
When people think of home security, they often conjure up the image of a home security system and preventing burglaries and home invasions. Certainly, this is a major aspect of home security, but the term actually encompasses other kinds of security as...
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Are Security Systems Really Necessary for Residential Homes?
For hundreds of years, people have been concerned with protecting their families and their property. Before technology spawned a whole new kind of home security, people built walls around their homes to keep unwanted visitors out. These days, walls just...
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Common Break-In Locations
If you are to adequately secure your house and your assets, you have to know which areas of your home are most vulnerable to break-ins. About every 8 seconds, someone in the United States is getting burglarized. Odds are 1 in 6 that a homeowner will experience...
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Are Your Locks Out of Date?
All homeowners know that strong door and window locks are critical to a comprehensive home security system. If they’ve taken the time to install such a security system, they have more than likely taken the time to get their locks upgraded as well. Unfortunately,...
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Hire the Pros to Move You
Moving can be fun and exciting. You are starting a new phase in your life with a new location and a new house. Your new home is a blank canvas just waiting for you to make it your own. Many people actually look forward to moving and can get anxious if...
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Burglar-Proof Your Yard
Installing a home security system in your home is a fantastic first step toward making your family and home more secure. You will likely experience peace of mind from the moment you activate it for the very first time. However, a security system is only...
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How to Prevent Identity Theft
These days, many burglars are breaking into houses not just to steal valuables and cash but also to steal identities. This is getting to be a major problem because homeowners are not as vigilant about their personal information as they should be, particularly...
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Improve your Interior Lighting for Better Security
If you leave your house unlit, you are asking for it to be burgled. An unlit house lets a would-be criminal that no one is home and he will be able to break in, take what he wants and get out without being detected. Even if you have a home security system...
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Installing a Home Security System? Don’t Forget Your Windows!
Homeowners in the 21st century are extremely concerned about home security and for good reason. Crime is everywhere and no one is immune. Even houses on the safest block in the country still have some security risks. It’s just a fact of life that everyone...
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Can Monitored Home Security Systems be Self-Installed?
Many homeowners want the security that a home security company offers, but they don’t want to, or can’t afford to have the system installed by a professional. As a result some people believe that they cannot get a monitored home security system because...