Home Security-amazing Ways To Prevent Home Invasion

This is not exactly a secret. One out of every six homes this year will be burglarized. A burglary happens every 15 seconds. Law enforcement officials tell us that 90 percent of all burglaries can be avoided.

One crime that has seemed to explode in the last three or four years is that of a home invasion. A burglary is committed by one person usually unarmed during the daytime when nobody is at home. A burglar wants to avoid confrontation.

Home invasion on the other hand is committed by usually two or more people who are usually armed when they know the occupants of the home are there. They want confrontation. That is why home invasion is much more dangerous and insidious because the risk of assault, perhaps even death is there.

Here are some amazing ways to prevent home invasion-some home security tips.

The best way is to install some home security cameras at your front and back door. They send a clear signal to would-be home invaders that their picture will be memorialized forever.

Almost all home invasions-close to 100 percent of them-happen right through the front door with occupants opening up the front door without knowing who is there. The most amazing way to stop a home invasion is to use your peephole. Find out who is your at your front door before you let them in.

Recently a senior citizen customer wrote me about a situation that she had. She was awakened in the middle of the night by someone knocking on her door. She lived in an apartment complex and felt relatively safe. But since someone was knocking at an unusual time she didn't reflexively open her door as so many people do-I even used to do it. She used her peephole to see who was there. She didn't recognize them and told them to leave otherwise she'd call the cops. They left fortunately saving a nasty situation.

Follow these amazing ways to prevent home invasion and you and your family will be much safer and improve your self defense.

Chances are pretty good that if you're reading this you have more than passing interest in home security. Be proactive and take some steps to ensure the safety of you and your family and protect your home in the process.

Don't be one of those people that think a crime can only happen to the other guy.