Given the rates of home theft in the nation, it is essential to have some sort of home security mechanism in place.
While having a reliable home security system installed in your home is the best way to keep burglars from successfully plundering your home of all your valuables, reducing the chances that a burglar will target your home in the first place is an even better security strategy.
There are many ways in which you can make your home less attractive to a burglar so that they will be less inclined to want to break into your home.
Because burglars tend to want the easiest and quickest way in and out of a home, they often target the homes deemed the easiest accessible.
Homes that prove to have many obstacles in the way are ignored in favor of other homes in the neighborhood.
These home intruders seek homes that are poorly lit because the additional darkness gives them extra cover to avoid detection when they are trying to break into your home.
If you reside in a neighborhood that happens to be dimly lit, make a few phone calls to the city or the neighborhood association for them to fix that issue.
It might make the difference between your home being safe or your home being robbed.
You can also take the matters into your own hands and invest in a home security device-a motion sensor light.
Installed at the entryways of your home, you can largely deter burglaries this way.
When someone approaches these key points, the movement will trigger the motion sensor and set off a bright light.
If it is a welcome guest, they will not be startled or alarmed.
If it is a stranger, they will be shocked and surprised-hopefully to the point where they will abandon their mission in fear of being detected.
Again, because most burglars do not want to interact with the residents or get caught by the police, they will seek the easiest way to break into your home.
Having this extra obstacle that heightens the risk of them being apprehended might deter them from targeting your home.
Another great way to keep your home safe from potential burglars is to have a watchdog in your residence.
These protective canine companions often react negatively to unknown strangers, barking and creating a scene.
Thus, if a burglar attempts to break into your home during the night when the entire family is sleeping, the barks will awaken the family, alerting them to an unwanted presence.
Moreover, larger and more aggressive species of dogs will even go as far as to attack the unwanted guest.
For this reason, many burglars avoid homes that are known to have dogs.
It is simply an additional obstacle towards their goal that can be avoided.
If you don't have a dog, you can even invest in a home security device called the electronic watchdog, which creates the illusion that your home is being protected by a dog.
Upon the initial sensor of movement, this device begins emitting barking sounds.
As the person approaches the door, the barks increase in both volume and frequency, just like a real dog's barks would.