Top Eleven Vacation Security Tips
 

When you leave your home for an extended trip, you must take extra steps to ensure vacation security for your house while you are away.

Vacation Security Tip #1

Pack your car inside your attached garage if you have one, so nobody sees that you are leaving on vacation.

Vacation Security Tip #2

Stop mail and newspaper delivery or have a trusted neighbor pick it up every day and store it at their house.

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Vacation Security Tip #3

There’s been debate about whether to keep your blinds open or closed.  If you keep them all open, it invites people to see that nobody is home.  If you close them, it seems to suggest nobody is home.  So compromise.  Keep upper story blinds open, and close blinds to rooms that have visible valuables.

Vacation Security Tip #4

Have your lights on a timer to mimic the evening activities of an occupied home. 

Vacation Security Tip #5

Set a radio on a timer as well.  Rather than tune it to music, tune it to a talk radio station so it mimics the sound of conversation.  To possible intruders listening from outside, it will make it sound like someone might be home, conversing. 

Vacation Security Tip #6

Invest in a sturdy safe to secure your most valuable items. 

Vacation Security Tip #7

Make sure your answering machine doesn’t give it all away.  Rather than “we’re not home”, say “we can’t come to the phone right now”.  Especially avoid leaving the details of your vacation time, no matter how helpful you may think it would be to friends who might call looking for you.

Vacation Security Tip #8

There’s also a debate on leaving your car in the driveway.  It can make it look like someone is home, but if it never moves, it may be a dead giveaway that you are gone.  Instead, ask a trusted neighbor to occasionally park in your driveway to give the illusion of someone coming and going.

Vacation Security Tip #9

Padlock the gates to your backyard.  Though not foolproof, anything that hinders criminals from getting access usually forces them to move on to easier targets. 

Vacation Security Tip #10

Notify your security monitoring company that you will be away.

Vacation Security Tip #11

If you will be gone longer than a week, notify the local police or neighborhood patrol as well.  They may drive by every now and then to keep an eye on things. 

The trick to vacation security is to make potential burglars think someone is home so they’ll keep away.  If you successfully set up proper vacation security during the duration of your trip, you will come home to a safe, pristine home.

 

Ralph Winn publishes articles, guides and reviews on security related topics. Ralph Winn has over 32 years of education and experience in the security industry. Your home should be your haven where you feel comfortable and secure. Everybody deserves to feel safe in their own home. The world around us can get hectic at times, and it's important to have a place of safety we can retreat to when times are tough. That's why our goal at the home security store is to help you find the best way to provide a protected environment for you and your loved ones. Ralph has created a user-friendly security forum for you to get answers.