Leaving your home for any amount of time, from a quick grocery trip, to a day at work, can open up a window for a potential burglar to invade your home. Most burglaries happen between the hours of 10 am and 3 pm and only last from eight to 10 minutes. Knowing how to protect your home and prevent burglary is as simple as making a few landscape changes to your home. Cover ground near your windows with gravel. The sound of stepping on gravel is enough to deter many potential burglars. The sound Read More
Wildfire Evacuation – Are You Prepared to Leave Your Home Quickly?
Posted on: January 24, 2014
If you needed to evacuate your home quickly on a moment’s notice, do you and your family have a safe evacuation plan? Do you know what you would take with you and could you grab it quickly? Do you have an off-site home inventory list? These are answers that you should have now, as there are over one million acres of woodlands in the United States that burn every single year. To prepare yourself, your family and your home, here are a few helpful wildfire evacuation tips: Plan an Read More
Include your home in your New Year’s resolution list
Posted on: January 10, 2014
We all make plans to improve and change things at the beginning of the year. Chances are you have told yourself: “This year will be different.” Sometimes it is, sometimes it is not. Take a look at all of your past resolutions. Determine if your home was included in any of those lists. If not, make this year different and do not leave your home out when making your New Year’s resolution list. Here are some things that should be included in your home’s New Year’s resolution list: • Reduce Read More