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Burglary and Theft Prevention
Check List
- Keep doors and windows locked at all times.
- Change the locks if you move into a previously owned home.
- Install heavy-duty locks on your doors. You could use metal or solid core outside the doors with deadbolts and metal striker plates.
- Always look through your peephole or view grill before opening the door to visitors.
- Put supplementary locks on all windows.
- Put secondary locks on the sliding glass doors.
- Never keep your garage open. Keep it closed and locked.
- When you are gone, make sure your house always looks occupied. Cancel the mail or newspapers. Have a neighbor or a friend collect them. Consider installing lights with automatic timers that set of sporadically.
- Don’t keep your keys in a common hiding place (i.e. under the doormat, in the mailbox, or outside).
- Do not leave ladders or tools outside where a burglar can use them to break into your home.
- Engrave your driver’s license number on all valuables.
- Do not give out personal information like your maiden name or social security number on the phone.
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