Home Surveillance System Tips

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Summary: Looking for tips to protect your home against theft? Watch this free video, and learn how to keep thieves away from a professional locksmith

Views: 2,111 | Tags: home, door, key, security, deadbolt, lock, window, theft, pick, padlock, break-in, repo

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Jim Koch Jim Koch has been a repo man for five years, a locksmith for three years, and an auto mechanic since he was very young. He works in the greater Sedona, Arizon... read more

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Home Surveillance System Tips

On behalf of expertvillage.com, I am Jim Koch and today we are going to be talking about home security. A few simple measures you can take to keep the guy that has the rock and the crowbar from getting into your house. One of the things with security is that most people don't realize security is pretty much an illusion. The key to security is to make your house harder than your neighbor or the guy down the streets house to break into. What happens is if he takes a look at your house and sees that it is going to be tough, he moves on down the street to find a little easier house to work with. We are going to talk a little bit about the security cameras and the lighting and there is a lot of different things that you can do. Some of the drastic measures are bars on the windows. You know security door on your house where you've got the steel framed door. I found generally just a few deterrence is enough to make people move on to the next house. One of the things is a security camera. Security camera system has gotten to be very simple, very easy to set up and quite economical. This system here not counting the VCR itself, I believe this ran about $50.00. It's not a real expensive system. Now this is a wired system so it takes a little bit to use it. You know you actually have to run the wires but they make wireless cameras too that are a little more money and a lot easier to set up and just anybody who is a little bit handy can put one of these systems in. The beauty of it is you can be sitting and watching TV and in this case you see the guy and your bike is sitting in the driveway and nobody is messing with it. There is about a million different choices you can go with on these. Basically I would say go with the best camera your budget will allow.