Keeping Your Home Safe While on Vacation – Tips

While on vacation, your home could be vulnerable to household calamities. There is nothing worse than coming back from a vacation or a business trip to find that something has gone seriously wrong with your home.

An unoccupied house or apartment can be an alluring target for thieves and burglars. We all have valuable belongings in our home so in order to keep them safe it is better to take necessary precaution so that you can enjoy your holiday peacefully. The simplest of things can go a long way in keeping your home protected against accidents, home invaders and power trips.

1. Ask A Friend for Help

Best way to have peace of mind when you are on a vacation is to have a person you can trust, It can be your neighbor, friend or family to help you keep an eye on your home. just asked them nicely to swing by once a day to make sure everything is in order. Abandoned mail at the front door can be a sign that the house is not occupied. You could request that your mail will be held for you at your local mail service provider or have a neighbor hold it for you until you return from your vacation.  

2. Beware of Social Media

Our social media presence might as well be our greatest vulnerability. We all have accounts on Twitter and Facebook and tend to forget that other people, not only our friends, can learn a lot about us from our posts.  for example: our current and home location, our financial status ,friends and much more.

There are a lot of strangers online and not all of them have good intentions. The same way you wouldn’t announce to a crowd full of strangers that your home is empty and vulnerable is the same way you don’t announce your absence on social media. Even if you would post about your vacation, be sure to set the correct privacy settings so that your posts are only viewed by people that you know and trust. Also, be aware of the type of message you leave on your answering machine on your home phone,  All you need to do is let people know you cannot come to the phone at the moment, no additional information is necessary.

3. Make It Seem Like There Is Someone Home

You can set your lights on an automatic timer that will put certain lights on and off at night periodically. You could also leave your car in the driveway ,give the impression that someone is home. If it is during winter, you can ask a neighbor to clear the snow off your driveway and gather your mail and packages at least once a week so that your home does not look abandoned. Main reason is that burglars like driving around neighborhoods to see if there are any houses that look unoccupied, that is how they choose which ones to target. Even if you are going to tidy up before leaving for your vacation, you could leave some toys or tools by the front door, and if you have a light outside – keep it on. Burglars will you usually keep away not wanting to be seen. 

4. Make Your Security Measures Prominent

Before you go away for your vacation, you can install motion lights around your yard and surroundings so that whenever there is activity close to your drive way or front door, a light goes on and let any potential intruder know that this house will not be an easy target. You can also purchase fake security cameras that have active LED lights(making them look real). Install them above your access points and around your property to keep intruders away.

5. Check your locks and doors

One thing you should keep in mind is that one faulty lock could be all that burglars need in order to successfully  break into your home when you’re away on vacation or even when your’e home! Before leaving for vacation, you should call your local  Locksmith service in Naples FL for a lock inspection and assessment of your home. After a close assessment the professional will be able to recommend a course of action; which, if any, of the locks should be replaced and which access points demands improving.

6. Unplug Your Appliances

One of the worst things that can happen to us as home owners and even renters are house fires, more commonly known as electric fires. These fires usually start a result of power surges and as you know and understand they can be life threatening and cause catastrophically damage to your belongings. That is why it is so very important that before you leave for an extended period of time, you unplug appliances that can self cause power surges such as the television, microwave, computers, ovens and electric kettles. This action is very simple but will go a long way in ensuring your home safety.  A lot of appliances still pull power even when they are turned off, so the only way to be certain is to either unplug them or turn the electric fuses off. 

7. Hide Your Spare Key

It is not uncommon to have a spare key hidden close by so that you can let an unexpected visitor in or gain access to your house in case of an emergency. If you are on vacation, don’t leave the keys for a criminal to look for. The flower pot or floor mat is not going to fool anybody for long. Those common hiding spots are only safe because most times, there are people around. If you need to have a spare key, give it to a trusted friend or family for safe keeping. Neighbors can also hold a key for you in case there is a need for emergency access to your home. And if still you have no around you trust you can try a most complicated hide ( See below external link for example)

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Keeping your home secure on vacation can be achieved with simple steps that go a long way in dissuading criminals for coming towards your house and ensure that you have a wonder time on your holiday vacation. You can also have a Locksmith in Naples FL help you look through your locks and keys to be sure everything is secure.

Call us today at Naples Locksmith 24/7 for the best Home and Commercial locksmith Services in Naples FL. Before going on vacation, we can help you carry out a comprehensive lock security assessment in your home and advise you of how best to secure your valuables.

For a free no-obligations consultation, call us today on (239) 227-3487 or send an email to napleslocksmith247@gmail.com.