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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 net welcome.
Sadly, too many people wait until after they've had a break-in (and there'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 all valuable items in your home. Record serial
your property. numbers, take close-up photos of jewellery and
® Don’t put your name on the gate or exterior of photograph all rooms in your home from
your home: it makes it too easy to find your phone vanous angles.
number and check to see if anyone's home. @ All locks should be deadbalts.
© Keep garage door locked. @ Secure all basement windows with locks and wire
@ All exterior lights should shine towards your mesh covering,
home, and should be located so that the bulbs @ Maintain normal lighting throughoul your house,
cannot be removed or damaged. even when youre not home.
© If you have a ladder, keep it well out of reach. @ Secure inside basement door with deadbolt or
@ Do not leave a key under the mat, in a inailbox hardened steed lock,
or other abvious spot. And never leave notes
for anyone: those notes are written invitations
to thieves.

© Don't forget to secure skylights and pane doors.

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