For Your Trip
- Secure Your Residence
- Have good locks on all doors and windows and use them
- Make sure your residence looks lived in, not empty
- Leave shades and blinds in normal position
- Ask your neighbor to watch your residence. Leave your address and telephone number so you can be reached
- Test your smoke and burglar alarms
- Stop all deliveries.
- Have someone pickup your mail
- Arrange for someone to mow your grass to give the home a lived in look
- Plug in timers to turn on lights, radio and off at appropriate times
- If you have call forwarding on your phone, forward your calls to a trusted friend
- Engrave your valuables. Consider taking valuables to a safety deposit box.
- Put Operation Identification decals on the doors and windows
- Close and lock garage doors and windows
