_THE SUSSEX REALTY HOMEOWNER’S GUIDE

Keeping your home secure

Be it ever so humble, your home is your own, So is everything in it. And uninvited intruders are most certainly not welcome.
Sadly, too many people wait until after they've had a break-in (and ihere’s one every 3.5 minutes in Canada) to make their home secure.
There are many excellent electronic systems available, but even taking the few simple precautions listed below will certainly help protect your home. And remember:
most burglars are young amateurs who just want to get in, grab anything portable and ‘saleable’, then get out without anyone noticing. Don’t make your house an easy target.

OUTSIDE INSIDE

* Keep foundation shrubbery trimmed, and well away from windows. doors and the ® Join “Operation Identification”: have all valuable— and portable—items marked
driveway. Why give a prowler a place to hide? with your social insurance number. Call your city police for details.
© See-through fences make it easy for neighbors and passers-by to keep an eye on @ Make a written inventory of ull valuable items in your home, Record serial

numbers, take close-up photos of jewellery und
photograph all rooms in your home from

various ingles,

© All locks should be deadbolts,

© Secure all basement windows with locks and wire
mesh covering.

® Maintain normal lighting throughout your house,
even when you're not home,

® Secure inside basement door with deadbolt or
hardened steel Jock,

© Don't forget to secure skylights and patio dvors,

your property.

@ Don’t put your name on the gate or exterior of
your home: it makes if too easy to find your phone
number and check to see if anyone's home.

@ Keep garage door locked.

® All exterior lights should shine towards your
home, und should be located so that the bulbs
cannot be removed or damaged.

e if you have a daddes keer a well out of reach.
® Do not leave a biee anuer the mat. in a mailbox
or other obvious spot. And never feave notes
for anyone: those notes are writen invitutions

to thieves.

Whether you're buying or selling, let Sussex Realty be your guide.

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