There are two common home security company scams home burglars are currently using to gain access to your home. In the first, burglars pose as animal control officers. They’ll come to your door and ask to inspect your backyard for snakes. While one of them distracts you in the backyard, the other goes… Read more about Two Home Security Service Scams to Be Aware of This Summer
Category: Home Security Tips
You vs. Home Burglars: 15 Ways to Improve Your Home Security
In the battle to stay ahead of home burglars, here are 15 things you can do to improve home security: Keep your door locks locked at all times, even when you are home. A surprising number of burglars enter a home simply by walking through an unlocked door. Make sure your home looks… Read more about You vs. Home Burglars: 15 Ways to Improve Your Home Security
7 Safety Tips When Your Home Is For Sale
Did you know that when you put your home up for sale it becomes more vulnerable to burglaries? That’s why you need burglar detector alarms even in empty homes. Listing a home for sale means lots of strangers in your house, everyone from real estate agents, prospective buyers, neighbors and others. It’s easier for… Read more about 7 Safety Tips When Your Home Is For Sale
Four Wireless Home Security Tips for Your Second Home
The start of spring brings the high season for second homes. It also poses a dilemma for second home owners. When you are not at your second home, how do you keep it safe? Not only are there threats to the home from humans (vandalism, burglary), there are also natural disasters and plumbing emergencies.… Read more about Four Wireless Home Security Tips for Your Second Home
Security Alarm Monitoring Services 101: No Landline? No Problem!
With cellular technology and smartphones, many of us no longer have a traditional landline telephone in our homes. It’s estimated that nearly 40% of Americans don’t have a landline phone and that number is growing. Many prospective home security system owners are concerned. They believe that a landline is necessary to monitor a home… Read more about Security Alarm Monitoring Services 101: No Landline? No Problem!
10 Ways to Prevent False Alarms
It’s no surprise that most communities fine homeowners for false alarms. It’s estimated that police spend billions of dollars annually responding to false home alarms. Police departments in some cities won’t even respond to a home alarm unless it has been verified in some way by camera systems, sound or people. So how… Read more about 10 Ways to Prevent False Alarms
What to do Before Changing Home Security Alarm Companies
With all the cable TV companies, cellular telephone companies and even Google providing home security systems, the pressure is on homeowners to switch home security companies. The competition amongst home alarm companies is fierce and many have been accused of deceptive sales practices. So what can you do to find out if changing… Read more about What to do Before Changing Home Security Alarm Companies
Alarm Activation Behavior Guide: Your “what to do” guide when your alarm system activates
False Alarm Behavior Guide: · Call the central station. Contact the monitoring center to tell them about the false alarm. · Use your password. Your password is necessary for the monitoring center to cancel the alarm. · Determine the cause. Understand what caused the false alarm so it doesn’t happen again. · Verify contact… Read more about Alarm Activation Behavior Guide: Your “what to do” guide when your alarm system activates
Pet Fire Emergency Safety Tips How to protect your pets from the dangers of fire
It didn’t take long. My terrier, Penny, wagged her tail and knocked a burning candle onto a pile of papers. I’m so glad I was there to prevent a disaster. Did you know that the National Fire Protection Association estimates than more than 500,000 U.S. pets are impacted annually by home fires? They also… Read more about Pet Fire Emergency Safety Tips How to protect your pets from the dangers of fire