If you own a vacation rental, a cottage, house or a condominium on Cape Cod, you have probably experienced some of the challenges of absentee ownership. As a lifelong Cape Cod resident and having worked with many vacation rental owners … Continue reading →
Now that people are so focused on devices and screens (like I was, while writing this and you are right now reading it), we have lost a lot of our natural awareness. People have been killed while walking and texting … Continue reading →
Here are some national break-in/burglary statistics. While these are national statistics, most of these are applicable to the Cape Cod area. A couple exceptions would be possibly the times of year burglaries occur and the fact that most local break … Continue reading →
If you are looking for different ways to keep your business or residential property safe and secure, then you have only two real choices, hiring a security guard to stand watch at your property or hiring a mobile patrol service. … Continue reading →
Construction sites offer great opportunities for thieves and vandals. Any given construction site on Cape Cod could easily have tens of thousands of dollars worth of tools, equipment, and potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of building materials and … Continue reading →
Hiring a security patrol service, or a home watch company to keep an eye on your property is one thing. Ensuring that your security contractor does their job and actually performs the services for you is another. The old standard … Continue reading →
There are tens of thousands of winterized homes and cottages that remain vacant thought the off season here on Cape Cod. While draining down all the plumbing fixtures, turning off the water and shutting off services like electricity to your … Continue reading →
A few months ago, I attended a presentation by a Barnstable County Sheriff’s Office crime scene investigator on residential break ins. The presentation took place at the Yarmouth Senior Center. The presentation included video interviews of some inmates at the … Continue reading →
If you have curbside trash pickup at your home, break up and bury all the boxes from recent gifts and purchases. The box from that new flat screen TV, the new laptop you bought, or got for a gift could … Continue reading →
Many home insurers require regularly scheduled walk-throughs and full interior inspections of properties if they are unoccupied for extended periods of time (like during the winter season here on Cape Cod). The frequency of these home watch visits will vary … Continue reading →
