Your Alarm
Simply having an alarm system won’t help you if you don’t use it, and 20 percent of alarm owners say they don’t bother activating it during the daytime, even though that is when the majority of burglaries occur.
Forget the old trick of having a security sign in your front yard—thieves are wise to that game and will still try the doors and windows, banking that you’re bluffing or forget to turn it on. You have to arm your alarm every time you leave your home.
