Alarm systems are a good idea too. Each door and window can be equipped with magnet switches so that they sound when the door or window is opened and they can be either local only or hooked up to a central panel which can call the police and or fire department as needed. Monitored systems are considered to be the best situation. Most monitored alarm systems depend upon land line telephones to call for help. It is too bad that telephone lines can be cut which disables the notification properties and the bad guys know this. There is a new system out which uses cell phone technologies to make the connection with the authorities and cell phones being wireless can not have the wires cut. Simply Safe is the first such alarm system that I have heard of and it supposed to be great. I have not actually seen them but they do sound good. This is as far into monitored alarms that we will go into at this time.

You can go the DIY route in setting up alarms with simple dead man switches that when ‘tripped’ would sound the alarm noise system to wake you up and hopefully scare the bad guys away. You can also get off the shelf components for really advanced alarm systems. We will talk about this more later.

Some considerations that are often overlooked. Regardless of how ‘good’ your security set is, it is useless without you the human factor. If you do not pay attention to detail and consistency. Set up whatever procedure that you are going to use and follow it all the time. Another thing to kept in mind is that IF someone is willing to invade your home knowing that you are home they may be looking to do more than just rob you. If cornered the bad guy most likely will do whatever they think that they have to, to get away if caught. This includes inflicting great bodily harm to you or even killing you. Do not delude yourself into thinking that they wont.

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