Protect Your Home

PROTECT YOUR HOME

Although many of today’s homes have security systems, there are further steps a homeowner can take to help prevent intrusion.
Make sure a home appears occupied is an easy way to divert uninvited guests.

• Invitations to intrusion include:
  • Notes on the door
  • Un-shoveled snow
  • An un-mowed lawn
  • Accumulations of mail or newspapers,
  • Total interior darkness before a normal bedtime
  • An empty driveway
  • Carport with no vehicles present
• Make the house look lived in even when away:
  • Alternating timed lighting
  • Having neighbors pick up the newspaper or mail is a critical security measure.
  • Keep doors and windows locked, especially at basement and first-floor levels or where the home is accessible from a tree, porch or other structure
  • Inside doors that lead to the basement or garage should also be kept locked

For additional information please contact your local sheriff or police departments. For home inspections please call or text HouseMaster/John Bosonetto Certified ASHI-HUD/FHA Approved home inspector 404.993.8059. Please visit www.hmainspect.com