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Ever wonder what goes through the mind of a burglar? Now you do not have to wonder. Keep reading to find out what burglars look for and think about when they break into your home!

1. Burglars do not usually dress all in black with a mask. They will dress like a normal person, maybe a service worker such as an electrician or a landscaper. They are often out between the hours of 8am and 11am.¹

What you can do: Never allow a service worker into your home without asking to see their identification. If you are in doubt, call the company to confirm their employment and schedule.

2. Burglars prefer to break into homes with lots of landscaping obscuring the doors and windows. This gives them plenty of places to hide while they break in and then make their exit.

What you can do: Give your landscaping a facelift. Prune back large and unruly bushes and trees. Make your home less desirable to burglars by reducing the places they can hide.

3. Burglars knock on doors. Surprised by this one? It’s true. What better way to find out if someone is home than by simply knocking. If no one answers, they can kick down the door and walk right in.

What you can do: Install kick plates, reinforced door frames and dead bolts on your doors to make it harder to kick in the door.²

4. Burglars enter through unlocked doors. This seems so simple and obvious that it should not need to be mentioned. However, according to this report, "You'd be surprised how many people leave something unlocked too, like a backdoor or a sliding glass door. You walk around the back of the house, you'd be surprised how many times you can just walk right in,"³

What you can do: You guessed it, lock your doors and your windows. Keep them locked as much as possible, but especially when you are not home.

^{1 http://simplisafe.com/blog/burglar-reveals-15-trade-secrets-look-mind-burglar
2 http://www.actiosecurity.com/inside-mind-burglar/
3 http://www.wthr.com/article/inside-the-mind-of-a-criminal-preventing-home-burglaries}

A home burglary can happen to anyone at any time. But did you know there are some key facts about burglaries that can help you stay safer in your home? Knowledge is indeed power when it comes to home invasion. By understanding some critical facts about home burglaries, you can take steps to keep your family safer.

Here are some important facts to keep in mind about home burglary and how to protect yourself:

1. Your home is most likely to be burglarized during the day when no one is there. This is probably due to the fact that more women are working away from home during the day, meaning the houses are unoccupied for several hours. The result is that most burglaries happen on weekdays as opposed to the weekend.¹

Tip: Install motion detectors with video verification in your home. This allows a monitoring company to verify that the motion detector has been tripped by a person and can contact the authorities on your behalf.

2. Some houses are at higher risk for being burglarized than others. Once such type of house is a house without a dog. When a dog is present, it is a close substitute to a person being present in the home. Dogs can bark (alerting others) and can also be dangerous, threatening to harm the intruder. In fact, many burglars will attempted to avoid breaking into a home that has a dog.²

Tip: If you are an animal lover, consider adopting a dog for companionship and security.

3. If a house in your neighborhood has been recently burglarized, your home is more likely to be burglarized as well. Criminals tend to return to neighborhoods in which they have had previous success.³

Tip: If a burglary has recently taken place in your neighborhood, as for increased police patrol along your streets. In addition, install a home alarm system and place signage in your yard indicating that you are protected. Criminals are less likely to break into a home with a home alarm system.

<sup>Source: https://www.scribd.com/doc/105817089/Security-Breach-Guide-A-Burglar-is-in-the-House-and-So-Are-You
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Just because you travel often does not mean you have to be out of touch with what is happening at work or at home. Honeywell Total Connect Remote Services is an award winning product that can bring you peace of mind when you need it most.

Click the video to watch Honeywell’s short description of this powerful service. Here are some highlights from the presentation:

From your mobile device, Total Connect allows you to operate your security system, thermostats, lights, locks and other items as well. But with Honeywell’s tracking services, you are able to use the power of GPS technology to track anything you want.

It works by using GPS satellites in space to communicate with signals communicated from any place on earth. The satellites then send the new information back to the device on earth.

Honeywell harnesses this powerful technology by using it to allow you to track your assets – from vehicles to motorcycles – you can keep up with your assets in real time.

Here are some of the categories you are able to track with this service: location, speed, and you can even set up geo-fencing. Geo-fencing allows you to be notified when your asset enters or leaves an area whose parameters you set up in advance.

Honeywell’s tracking services also allows you to see historical reports that show where your asset has been in the past. You can track back up to 90 days in the past.

You can use either the asset tracker (which monitors assets like trailers or classic cars by way of a small device you place in the asset) or the vehicle tracker (which monitors cars, trucks or service vans). You will even be able to track the speed at which your vehicle is traveling; a notification will be sent to you. It is also possible to analyze the stops and starts the vehicle has made – great for keeping up with your fleet of business vehicles!

Give us a call or email us at 1-800–988–2378 |sales@bestsecurityproducts.com. We specialize in Honeywell business security.