Doors and windows are easy points of entry for criminals. For homeowners, doors are often the focus of security efforts with smart door locks, deadbolts, and reinforced doors all at your disposal. This leaves windows as your weakest points of entry and something burglars already know. When it comes to break-ins, 23 percent of burglars… Read more about What You Need To Know About Securing Your Windows With Your Home Security Service
Category: Home Security Tips
5 More Tips to Keep Your Home Safe While Traveling
Whether it’s a weekend staycation or a use-up-all-your-vacation-days international escape, traveling has always been life’s greatest pleasures. Paradoxically, it’s also one of life’s great stresses: there’s all that planning to do and money to shell out, and just when you think you’ve survived the worst of it, it hits you – what about your home?… Read more about 5 More Tips to Keep Your Home Safe While Traveling
5 Tips to Keep Your Home Secured While You’re Away on Vacation
When you go away, be it for a long weekend or a two-week marathon vacation, the threat of burglary often sneaks into mind. And yes, while you shouldn’t let your travel excitement blind you to the threat, you also shouldn’t let your fear of thievery spoil a much-anticipated getaway. That’s what home security companies are… Read more about 5 Tips to Keep Your Home Secured While You’re Away on Vacation
10 Easy Ways To Keep Your Family Safer
To put it simply, safety is the state of being safe and protected against non-desirable events and outcomes. It’s why we have security systems installed. And while, we all strive to ensure our own safety and the safety of our families, staying safe isn’t always top of mind. Once in a while, it’s good to… Read more about 10 Easy Ways To Keep Your Family Safer
25 Home Security Stats You Need To Know
A good security stat round up serves to keep you aware of recent U.S. trends and maybe illuminate some blindspots in your own security. With new knowledge, you can make informed decisions about your security and home automation to better protect the people and things that matter to you most. Here are some recent home… Read more about 25 Home Security Stats You Need To Know
Worried About Winter Weather? Here’s A Winter Weather Prep Sheet
Winter can put a damper on more than just your mood – it can also dampen your home (in more ways than one). The seasonal weather can be unpredictable with freezing rain and temperatures to blizzards resulting in high winds and double-digit snow totals. So to help prepare you and your home for the unpredictability… Read more about Worried About Winter Weather? Here’s A Winter Weather Prep Sheet
7 Tips for Safely Renting Your Home
The Pope is paying a visit to Philadelphia in September 2015 and the city is buzzing in anticipation! Some Philadelphia residents are considering renting their home to others during the duration of the Pope’s visit. They see the visit as a great opportunity to earn income. With websites like Airbnb making it easy to list… Read more about 7 Tips for Safely Renting Your Home
See Something Suspicious? Then Say Something About It!
Here’s a neat story of how neighbors helping neighbors resulted in the arrest of a suspected criminal by the Lower Merion Pennsylvania Police Department. Police were contacted by a man who noticed suspicious activity on his neighbor’s property. When police arrived a few minutes later, they encountered a 19 year old man from Philadelphia. The… Read more about See Something Suspicious? Then Say Something About It!
The Forgotten Secret to Protecting Your Home
One of the most often overlooked things a person can do to protect their home and family from crime and break-ins is to become active participants in a neighborhood watch program. Neighborhood watch programs encourage residents within a defined area to look for and report suspicious activities to the police. It’s a really simple concept…neighbors… Read more about The Forgotten Secret to Protecting Your Home
