In these tough economic times, people become desparate to make ends meet. This generally means an increase in crime, and one of the best ways to get money is to rob a house.
Your first line of defense is your door lock. Is it a deadbolt? do you lock your doors, even when you are home?
The second line of defense is your landscaping. Is your house easy to see from the street and neighbors, or hidden by shrubs, tres and bushes? Make sure there is no easy way to hide while breaking into a window or lower level door.
The third line of defense is your neighborhood watch program. Do you have a watch program in place, and use it?
burglars to go places where it is easy to rip you off. If your neighborhood has signage about your Neighborhood Watch program, they may go somewhere else. If you have an alarm sign in your front yard, they will go somewhere else.
So, the goal here it to make your house the last choise for arobber looking for loot.
