Just a few reminders in case your weekend plans, or any travel plans, are taking you away from home:
- Take care with the details you leave on social networking sites, especially if your real name is attached to your profile. You don’t want your home to be in danger because of a twitter message saying exactly when you’re leaving.
- Put the credit cards, social security cards, passports you don’t need in a home safe that’s locked by a key you keep with you.
- Light up your home inside and out. Timers for indoor lamps and motion detectors outdoors are excellent investments for travellers.
- Ensure your digital data is locked up. No passwords on post-its on your desk, turn off the computers you can, and make sure you have a backup in that home safe, too.
- Make sure your house sitter or pet sitter is aware of who to call in an emergency. Ask them to vary the timing of their visits if possible so anyone observing your home can’t detect a pattern.
- Contact your local police force to let them know if you’re gone for an extended period of time. Ours will schedule extra drive by’s. Similarly, they came out to help us identify any weaknesses in our home security like locks and easy-to-open windows.
- If you know them well enough, let a neighbor know you’ll be gone and who will have legitimate access to your home.
Happy travels this weekend!
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They also sell fake security cameras (about $20 on Amazon) and are a good deterrent especially if you travel frequently.