Seven Ways to Protect Yourself and Your Loved Ones from Home Invasion!

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Used to be the home was where you were safe, but the unfortunate fact, however, is that home intruders, home invasion, has actually become a big crime. I came up with the following seven methods for protecting your home after being a landlord at a large apartment house. I speak from an apartment point of view, but rest assured that what I say here can be used to protect homes or even vehicles.

Time to turn up all those bright lights! You should see to installing motion detector lights at any dark places around your house. The secret of a bad guy, you see, is that he wants to work in darkness, he wants to catch you unawares, and shedding a little light on the subject works better than an expensive alarm system.

Lock up all the ways for getting into your house! Locks on doors and gates work well, but loud noises are the best. Put some loud bells on a door or gate and you will get plenty of warning, because bad guys not only don’t want anybody to see them, they don’t want anybody to hear them.

His bark is worse than his bite! The most efficient burglar alarm in the world is a dog. It doesn’t even have to be a big dog…he will wake you, he will take you to the burglar, he costs pennies a day, and he loves your kids!

The Slice-o-matic is cool! Having a sharpened machete right next to a door, maybe on top of a dresser, in a pantry, or some other place where children can’t reach, is a great thing to have. No, you don’t want to have to use it, but slicing a half yard of sharp and shiny steel at some idiot will stop him from thinking about coming in your house.

Know who all your neighbors are, but don’t give the bad guys a clue! Slide those curtains closed enough so the home invasion expert can’t see you. Take note of any suspicious people who happen to travel through your area.

A friendly neighborhood protects itself! Meeting all your neighbors, making them friends, goes a long way. Set up a neighborhood watch, let each other know when you are going to be away!

Learn Karate, or learn kung fu, or learn some other martial arts method of good self defense. There are schools on every street corner, and you can even get good self protection if you want to learn Karate Online! People who are confident in their abilities to protect themselves will live through home invasion, or any kind of criminal situation.

You can make your neighborhood a wonderful place. Go to Learn Karate Online for the best martial arts instruction on the net.

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