How can I prevent burglary?

It is important to keep your house safe from burglars. Here are some tips to help stop unwanted visitors from entering your house:

• Develop good security habits: About 75% of all burglaries are happening because someone forgot to lock the windows or doors. Try to prevent this from happening by always checking whether every possible entrance of your house is closed when you're not home or when you're asleep.

• Lock your windows: Locking your windows is one of those habits that people tend to not do. Avoid unwanted visitors coming through your windows with guns by safely locking them.

• Consider a burglar alarm: Burglar alarms will help make your home safer by alerting you when someone is in your home. Not only will burglar alarms help you prevent from burglars going into your home, but it will also help you save money on your home insurance.

• Keep your home well lit: When going out, you might want to keep your house well lit. When burglars see lights, it occurs to them that someone is still in the house. Because thieves obviously don't want to get caught, they will attempt their burglary in the dark.

• Trim shrubs and trees near doors and windows: This will simply hide the thief's appearance.

• During vacation time, be extra cautious: While you are gone, you should especially make sure that your house is completely safe. Ask a trusted neighbor or a relative to come by once in a while to check up on your place. You should also ask that someone to get your mail for you, to prevent identity theft.

• Purchase deadbolt locks: Make sure that your house locks can't be opened with picks of a pointy object. Purchase locks that are safe.

• Check to see if valuables are visible from the street: Make sure that unwanted visitors won't be tempted into coming into your house. Avoid any valuables to be seen from outside; you don't want for the burglar to get too excited when he sees his target.

• Make sure that your doors are strong: Make sure that your doors aren't weak and won't be broken down with a chair or a foot. Make sure that you purchase strong doors. If your door is weak, then that good lock that you are planning to purchase is useless