68 - Friday, February 24, 1989 - North Shore News

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 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 @ Jon “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 iteassy for neighbors and passers-by to keep an eve on @ Make a written inventory of all valuable dems in your home. Record serial
SOU property nulnbers. take close-up photos of jewellery and
@ Don't put your name on the gate or exterior of photogriph all rooms in your home from
yeourhome: it makes iitee easy to find sour phone sanous angles.
number and check to see rf anyone's home @ Alt locks should be deadbolts.
© Keep garage door locked / ® Secure all basement windows with locks and wire
@ Allestenor light. should shine tewards your mesh covering.
hame, and should be located so that the bulbs
cannot be removed or damayed
@ Tf vou have a ladder. keep at well out of reach : ° @ Secure inside basernent door with deadbolt ar
@ Do notieave a kes under the mato ina miailbos ; hardened steel lock
or other obvious spot And never Tease notes
for anyone. those notes are Written inv ttubens
to thieves

® Afuntain normal lighting throughout your house,
even when youre aot harme.

© Don't forget to secure sky ltvhes and pite doors,

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