5 Tips For Keeping Your Home Safe While On Vacation

When you and your family are getting ready to take a vacation, it is important to remember how to properly lock up your home and keep it safe. As a homeowner, it is your responsibility to protect all of your belongings and prevent a bad situation from happening while you are away. While you go on vacation, take the necessary precautions. Here are a few tips on how to keep your home safe while you are away.

1. Properly Lock Your House

The first thing any homeowner must do when leaving their home, is lock all of the doors and windows. You can use deadbolts, locking pins or dowels in sliding-glass windows and doors. It’s important to set up a reliable alarm system before you leave home. Test it and make sure it works before you set it and leave on your vacation.

2. Hire A House Sitter

You need someone to watch over your house. Even if it’s just for a couple of hours a day, its helpful if someone is constantly checking on your house. It can be your close friend or a relative.

3. Make It Appear That Someone Is Home

Even while you are away, it’s important that you keep a couple lights on. The objective is to make it appear that someone is home or that someone is coming home later. This easy tip differs thieves from breaking into your home.

4. Hold Your Mail

If you know you’ll be away from home for a couple of days, it is recommended that you contact your local post office and request that they hold your mail until you are back. It’s important that you inform them of the dates that you will be gone. If you don’t, piled up mail on your doorstep and newspapers on the driveway will alert bystanders that no one is home.

5. Tell The People You Trust To Watch Over Your Home

Generally, it is a good idea to give the people you trust a heads up that you are going out of town. Whether its family, friends, or close neighbors, its important to have people watch over your house. However, it’s important to not be overly broadcasting that you are going out of town; especially to the people you don’t trust. You don’t want to expose yourself and let strangers know your traveling plans.

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