Affordable Tips to Enhance Home Security

Home security systems can be expensive. If a crook knows how to circumvent them, they can also be a waste of money. By all means, invest in a home security system, but also take a few affordable steps to make your home more secure in general. Simple things like creative landscaping and pet doors can create a more secure home environment.

• Get creative with your landscaping — If you have bushes close to the house, you have a perfect hiding spot for a potential robber. On the other hand, bushes with thorns on them, like roses, make a great natural deterrent.
• Install pet doors — With these installed, you don’t have to open your door in the middle of the night to let your pet out. You can make it so your dog has access to all areas of the home at all hours of the day and night without leaving your home susceptible to criminals.
• Use random timers — If you have timers that turn your lights off and on while you are gone, make sure they don’t do it at the same time every day. Otherwise, anyone observing the home will easily adapt to your obvious schedule.
• Stop posting location statuses on social media — There is nothing quite so inviting to a thief as a social media announcement that your home will be unattended.

Sometimes home security is really just common sense. It doesn’t take a lot of time or money to make your home secure. You can do things that will make you enjoy your home more, as well as making it more secure.