Home Security Inspections: Why a Certified Home Security Inspection Can Protect You and Your Family

 Home Security Inspections.

With violent home invasions and burglaries on the rise, you may find yourself asking how you can affordably protect your home and loved ones against these heinous crimes.  As if providing a roof over your family's heads isn't challenging enough, there's also the responsibility of keeping them safe and secure both inside and outside the home.

 During the day, you remind your children to look both ways before crossing the street and to never talk to strangers. And at night, you take it upon yourself to make sure all the doors and windows are locked, and maybe even set your home's security alarm if you have one. You then go to bed trusting that these measures will keep your family safe and secure through the night. But what you don't know is that these devices alone aren't always enough to keep danger from entering your home.

 For decades, alarm systems have given homeowners a false sense of security. As children, many of us are taught that home alarms will protect us. But today's statistics tell a different story. In reality:

• Home burglary takes place every 15 seconds in the U.S.
• Up to 80% of home invasions are performed forcibly through a "locked" door.
• 60% of rapes occur inside the female victim's home.

 As adults, our false sense of security is often perpetuated through the advice of security alarm salespeople. Although we're told that having an alarm system installed in the home is the best way to protect us, the truth of the matter is that most alarm company employees are hired to "sell" security products and have no formal training in home security. They work on a commission structure based solely on the price of the products they sell to a customer and the length of time the customer is willing to sign a security monitoring agreement. Their main goal is to make money—not to protect you and your family.

 Regardless of what a salesperson tells you, the key to staying safe is to keep the bad guys out of your home. And a security system can't do that for you. An alarm can only let you know when someone has entered your home—an already potentially dangerous situation.

 The only way you can know for sure if your home offers the necessary security to keep you and your family safe is to have a performed. Not only do these types of inspections show you what areas of your home are strong in security, they point out which areas of your home are most vulnerable and potentially placing you and your family in harm's way.