Home Security Resources

Tips to Keep Burglars from Targeting Your House
Crooks often find it easy to break into homes, but there are simple, inexpensive solutions to keep you and your home safe. For just a few dollars and a few minutes, you can install a safety bar on your sliding glass door. Even a sawed-off broom handle lying in the door track could help keep intruders away. Or you can drill a small hole across the track of the door so you could insert a nail that would help keep crooks out. Article suggests trying to break into your own home to see how secure it is. Includes links to stopping burglars, 10 ways to keep your home burglary free, safety home tips, 30 police tips, and home safety tips.

Articles for Moms: 15 No-Cost Ways to Protect Your Home and Family!
This article includes 15 ways to protect your home and family including securing doors and windows, not leaving notes on the door, leaving lighting on, keeping your garage door opener in a locked car, joining a neighborhood watch group, unlisting your home address in the phone book, keeping emergency numbers handy, keeping valuables out of sight when company visits, never opening your door to a stranger, keeping personal areas of your home off limits to strangers, never giving your keys out to strangers and more. These are common sense home safety tips that work.

Learn Tips to Keep Crooks from Targeting Your House
An article about burglarproofing your home. For just a few dollars and a few minutes, you can install a safety bar on your sliding glass door. Even a sawed-off broom handle lying in the door track could help keep intruders away. Or you can drill a small hole across the track of the door so you could insert a nail that would help keep crooks out.

Home Security Checklist
Burglars, like most people, follow the path of least resistance when going about their work. The first step in protecting your home against break-ins is to identify the features of your home that may make it an attractive target for burglars. Start your security inspection at your front door, and proceed through your home, inspecting all doors, windows, locks, and lights. Don't forget to examine the landscaping. Answer all the questions to determine your vulnerability to burglary and theft. This handy checklist asks you the questions you need to address in order to make sure your home is secure.