Ensuring Personal Security in Your Apartment

When you live alone, it’s impor­tant to take cer­tain steps to ensure your per­son­al safe­ty and secu­ri­ty. Because there is nobody around to help you in emer­gency sit­u­a­tions, it’s a good idea to spend some time and effort set­ting up your home and lifestyle to pro­vide you with the sup­port and secu­ri­ty we all need.

When in Doubt, Fake It

If you hear a strange noise out­side your home, secu­ri­ty experts rec­om­mend call­ing out loud­ly as if address­ing a per­son in anoth­er room. This will make it sound like there is more than one per­son in the house and can help to dis­suade poten­tial bur­glars from attempt­ing to break in.

Make your home an unat­trac­tive tar­get

Most thieves are oppor­tunis­tic and will only attempt to steal from hous­es that look easy. Make yours less tempt­ing by installing heavy locks on base­ment win­dows, putting motion sen­sor lights by all entrances and gates, and keep­ing ground floor win­dows closed at all times. These lit­tle things will make your home much hard­er to break into, great­ly reduc­ing the like­li­hood of an attempt.

Addi­tion­al­ly, ask your home secu­ri­ty provider for addi­tion­al stick­ers stat­ing your home is armed with a sys­tem to place on floor-lev­el win­dows and doors. This will act as a big red flag for any thieves in the area, as most bur­glars are unlike­ly to attempt a break-in of a mon­i­tored home.

Uti­lize Neigh­bor­hood Watch

Get­ting to know your neigh­bors is always a great idea. Neigh­bors who know you are more like­ly to notice if some­one sus­pi­cious is lurk­ing around your home and will noti­fy you or the police if they see some­thing sus­pi­cious.

They will also have a bet­ter idea of your usu­al sched­ule and will notice if you do not clean up your yard or bring your news­pa­per inside, pro­vid­ing you with some secu­ri­ty in case an acci­dent occurs inside the home. Let them know if you are going away for a few days and they will like­ly keep a clos­er eye on your place, watch­ing for bur­glars who may attempt to rob you while you are out of town.

Per­son­al secu­ri­ty is no small mat­ter, but there are many lit­tle things you can do around the home to help improve your feel­ings of safe­ty and secu­ri­ty. Remem­ber to always guard your keys care­ful­ly and don’t hide spares in obvi­ous places. Nev­er put your full name, address, or oth­er per­son­al infor­ma­tion on your keys as, if lost, they may lead some­one right to your door.