Imagine being disturbed from your nights sleep by the sound of someone breaking into your home? Suddenly your mouth is dry, your heart pounding in your chest. Under your breath you whisper curses at yourself not installing some kind of security in your home.

You look at your sleeping wife - should you wake her? What about the kids sleeping peacefully in their room next to yours? How will this stranger react if you confront him? Your mind is racing now, you never planned for something like this. After all, his happens to other people, not you! Beads of sweat begin to trickle from your forehead as you strain to hear what's happen in the darkness of your house below... Was that sound the stairs creaking?

Four Important Home Security Tips:

The following four home security tips can effectively be used to discourage most burglars from targeting your home or prevent a break-in. You'll be happy to know that all these tips are affordable and easily implemented too.

1. The first tip is really simple, position yard signs or security stickers in windows that state your home is security monitored. This will make most burglars think twice (supposing they have brains) before they decide if your home is worth further consideration. 'Beware of Dog' signs should not be used unless you have a guard dog. Even a half-wit burglar will soon figure out whether a bloodthirsty hound is indeed protecting your premises or not.
   
   
2. Install motion detector floodlights front and back of your home. Burglars do like to hang out in the shadows so lets shine a little light on their otherwise shady lives. Only a really dumb burglar will proceed to try gain entry to your property in the full beam of a spotlight.
   
   
3. Lets suppose we're actually dealing with the afore-mentioned dumb burglar, and the signs and lights have failed to send him running to the hills, it's time to actually stop this guy from breaking in to your home. Burglars usually try front/back doors first, unless they see an unlocked ground floor window. Stop them in their tracks by using deadbolt door locks, door bar jammers and if necessary home security doors. All of these devices actually help to prevent entry. Add interior window bars to vulnerable windows if necessary but make sure they can be easily opened from the inside encase of an emergency. This is extremely important for your family's safety.
   
   
4. Having carried out step 3 above, the chances of a burglar gaining entry to your home without the aid of a bulldozer or magic are slim to none. Still, we'd like to know if some thief is trying his luck with our home so it's a good idea to install a burglar alarm. The alarm will be connected to windows and doors, and will be triggered if they are tampered with too much, sounding an alarm.

By this stage, if the burglar is really dumb enough to ignore signs, lights, barriers and alarms, you just have to wait long enough for law enforcement to respond to your call so you can watch him being carted away.

Go back to sleep now, secure in the fact that you made an investment in your family's safety and your home security.

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