15 Mistakes Ex-Burglars Say Seniors Living Alone Make Every Night

🔗 Keep your home, or your parent's home, off a burglar's list with my complete locksmith's guide: waltcormier.com If you live alone, your house is telling the street something every single night. Not because you're careless, but because you're consistent. And to someone watching, consistent means he can guess when the house is empty. In this video I walk you through fifteen nightly habits that make a home easy to read from the curb. Almost every one of them costs nothing to fix, and some of them you can fix before this video is over. What you'll learn in this video: Why the light you leave on for safety can tell a stranger the opposite What the way your house goes dark at night says about how many people live there The one window that gives away your entire evening The lock most people forget, even after forty years of locking up The two-minute fix for the weakest door on many homes Something on the kitchen counter that should never be visible from outside Why a perfectly set timer can work against you The door inside the house that most people treat the wrong way The free check you can do tonight that matters more than all the others At the end, I tell you the three habits that do the most work. All three are free. This isn't a video to make you anxious in your own home. You're not a target because of anything you did wrong. The goal is simple: make the front of your house a little harder to read than it was this morning. Please note: this video is general home-security information, not legal or insurance advice. If you ever come home and something looks wrong, a door open or a light on that shouldn't be, don't go inside. Get somewhere safe and call 911. Be honest in the comments: how many of these fifteen did you recognize in your own house tonight? And if you live alone and have a trick I didn't cover, share it below so someone else can use it. Subscribe for practical home security that doesn't come with a subscription fee. #homesecurity #burglaryprevention #seniorsafety #livingalone #homesafety #safetytips #crimeprevention #seniors