Best advice here. We cut each other's grass, pick up each other's newspapers, our kids are always outside together. Cody and Roy (his dog) work the night shift, so he's home during the day. Ray and the pastor neighbor are both retired and always home. Everett is a police officer and keeps a keen eye out. My wife is home three afternoons a week. Angie & Mike have split schedules. Steve's a teacher (summers off) and Carla's a nurse. Duane's in the military and his two roommates have late schedules so they're home during the day. Rob lost his job and Nicole is a parole officer. Grace is retired, so she's home unless she's taking Daniel to school. And Jack's dog barks at his own shadow, so I know that little ankle-biter will give us a heads up even if my dog is laying in her kennel, licking her own crotch.I've posted about my neighborhood on several occasions. In my case, they are the best deterrent to theft. There are 26 families who live on a dead end street. We all know each other and look out for everyone else. Most of us have been here for many years and are friends as well as neighbors.
No one enters our neighborhood without a hundred eyes on them. An added plus is that almost ALL of us are armed! Some knothead packing stuff out of one of these homes is really going to suffer!
In your preparations, don't forget your neighbors! They are probably one of your BEST resources! Then, too.....This dead end street is NOT a gun free zone!
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Further, I have posted elsewhere on this forum about home security cameras if someone wants to dig up the info. Can't find it right now from my phone.
With a little bit of computer wizardry, I set up four cameras around my home. They rotate, zoom, detect motion, send and receive audio, and have IR night vision. They alert my iPhone when motion is detected. The cameras were each $80 and the software was about $10. I'm happy.
BC, the cameras are $80.00 each making 35 Remington's setup over $300.00. I recently purchased a four camera setup at Sam's Club for $480.00 with DVR loop so that all the goings-on are recorded for the Police. My system also sends alerts to my Smartphone and is money well spent.
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What system is that? id is the iCam/dropcam thing/
I was looking for someone who has tested that system, but no one I know has.
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35Remington, can you share the brand and model of your system? Every time I think I've found one, I run into a bunch of bad reviews (Amazon, Home Depot, and others). My neighbor across the street installed one himself from Sam's Club. He has wires tacked to the brick walls in some places, and ran cables through the wall on the side of his house, but his seems to work. He even has one camera pointed at my driveway. He gave me the logon to the system so I could check with my iPhone. I'm still considering it.
Hmmm....
First off, thanks for the links!
Second, do you have any recommendation for a "plug'n'play" version that works for us less- (or non-) tech saavy individuals?
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BC, the cameras are $80.00 each making 35 Remington's setup over $300.00. I recently purchased a four camera setup at Sam's Club for $480.00 with DVR loop so that all the goings-on are recorded for the Police. My system also sends alerts to my Smartphone and is money well spent.
A few friends and families had their home broken into and since then they have put up doors/windows guard on all of them.
A few friends and families had their home broken into and since then they have put up doors/windows guard on all of them.
Neat idea but most people avoid buying into a home/neighborhood that is all barred up like that.