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Home Tips > Tips By Category > Tips you can implement daily When you go away on vacation, you need to make sure when you return home, you can spend your precious time reflection on your vacation and not finding a home that has been taken over by criminals. The following is a list of tips for protecting your property while away
Make an arrangement with a neighbor, friend or relative to check your home periodically.
If a friend or neighbor cannot collect your mail, make arrangements for it to be held at the Post Office.
Arrange for lawn care or snow removal. Ignoring these areas will make your house stand out in the neighborhood and announce to everyone that you are gone.
Arrange for someone to start your car during very cold or very hot weather.
Put your valuables and jewelry in a safety deposit box.
Notify the local police and security system company to immediately consider any alarms as real. Leave with them the names of anyone responsible to watch over your house.
Turn your heat down or off in spring or fall. Be sure to leave the house warm enough in the winter. You may want to reduce your bills, but you may need to keep the house from getting too cold to protect your pets and water pipes.
Leave shades or drapes as you normally do.
Lock all doors and windows including basement & garage.
Disconnect the garage door. Unplug it if you can, do not pull the fuse for the garage door until you verify the fuse is not hooked up to something that needs to stay on, such as, your refrigerator or maybe a freezer in the garage.
Plan to leave your house sitter with the following information, a complete trip itinerary with a list of where you will be staying with address and phone number, a security system lesson if applicable, keys to the doors and mailbox, leave them a copy of your passport so they could fax it to you in case you lose your copy, plant care and watering instructions, pet care instructions.
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