June is home safety month. Although, we have covered this topic before, the consequences of not knowing and ensuring how to safeguard your home and family, dictate that we revisit the subject. This article will be the kickoff to a month-long series, helping you recognize and correct any shortfalls in the safety measures in place in your home.
Approximately 140 million go on some extended vacation during the summer. This is the perfect time for potential trespassers to wreak havoc. With classes finishing up for the kids, and the start of summer break looming, vacation plans are well under way. So, make your plans and reservations, pack up the RV, and bribe the kids for good behavior during travels. Then, take the vital step of preparing your home for your absence. How? For starters:
- Social Media—limit what you share. It’s the current climate, in America, to share what’s happening in our lives via various forms of social media. Even with the “safety protocols” available as options on the different sites, criminals find their way onto your pages, and then into your lives and homes. Don’t help them out by having loose lips.
- Lawn Maintenance—make sure to trim those hedges. Nothing makes a home more ripe for the picking than concealment. Your neighbors have lives, and though it may seem they’re always watching, they’re not. And, they can’t. However, when they can, make it easier for them and less easy for intruders by making sure access points are not shrouded by shrubbery.
Just Go!—enough said. Well, maybe not. If you know that you’ve done your due diligence—alarm, lawn maintenance, stopped the mail/newspapers—don’t undo all of that by broadcasting your absence. Just answer your emails and voicemails when you return. For goodness sake, no outgoing messages… “Hi, we’re finally touring French wine country! We won’t be back for 10 whole days! Aren’t you jealous? Leave a message!” Noooo!
These steps may be second nature for some, but unfortunately, not everyone thinks in “what ifs”. Carod Properties wants to make sure those that think it will never happen to them are prepared…just in case. We don’t want your summer ruined because we didn’t do all we could, by ensuring you did too! Have a happy, SAFE summer!
