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Home Tips > Tips By Category > Tips you can implement daily Put up conspicuous No Trespassing signs in your yard.
Leave someone on duty there as much as possible.
Buy an answering machine for your temporary quarters. Do not give away information. Let the message say simply that you cannot come to the phone and invite callers to leave names, numbers, and messages.
When you must leave notes on your door or at the house site, write only that you had to go away for a short time. Do not tell where you are going or when you will be back.
Get the phone company to install a temporary phone at the house site and also to install call-forwarding service. Conceal the phone and protect it from weather. Set the call-forwarding to ring at the temporary quarters when you are not at the house, and vice versa.
Alert neighbors when you must be away a long time. Leave them your location and a telephone number.
If you can do so, block the drive to your house when you are to be away for several hours. If anyone plans to loot, at least make him work for what he steals.
Eliminate temptation by keeping all suggestions of valuable items out of sight. Don't leave empty boxes suggesting jewelry, guns, or cameras.
Alert police of your need to be away and request that they drive past your house regularly.
Discourage delivery trucks from leaving any merchandise, even building supplies, unless you can be at the house site.
Keep your house site work hours sporadic so that no one could figure out your schedule.
Carry tools back and forth with you so that nothing valuable will be left at the work site.
When rebuilding, close in the house and install doors and windows as quickly as possible.
As soon as basement walls are up, erect doors or barricades against entrance from that area.
Do not leave ladders in view. Looters can use those to gain access through windows or other small openings.
If you had a fence around the property, restore it and keep the gate locked when you are away.
Put up signs offering rewards to anyone whose information leads to the arrest and conviction of looters.
Once the house is closed in, leave a cheap radio playing while you are gone.
Leave a light on the basement to suggest that someone is in the house. Change the location of the light from time to time.
Write down numbers of license tags whenever you see the same vehicle too often in the area.
Set up a rotating watch schedule with other victims.
Put up Beware or the Dog signs.
Make it a point to be on the premises every day.
Change items around inside and outside the building to indicate that work is on-going and your presence is regular.
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