A Home Security Plan For The Worst Possible Moment

After you have a home alarm system installed and have run the tests necessary to ensure it’s working properly, it’s natural to take a step back and relax. After all, you’ve done your homework and answered the big questions, right? While that’s partially true, you aren’t completely finished until you have hammered out a plan to put into motion in the event your house is broken into. What if you arrive home to find your alarm ringing amidst a general commotion, with no police to be found?

Well, hopefully you won’t panic and have a plan ready. Here’s how to make a response in five steps.

1. Get on the phone immediately and call the police. Leave your home security company for another moment. At this point you want help on the scene, not counseling, especially if there is reason to believe someone is still inside your home or in the vicinity. A police cruiser in the neighborhood might have the good fortune to spot a suspicious character walking at a brisk pace, or driving erratically and in a hurry. If you have a security camera, check it for a description as soon as you know it’s safe.

2. Do a once-over of the premises. Frankly, the least important detail at that moment would be some cash laying around the house (inadvisable to have any, by the way). Check if your cars are still in the garage, your safe is still in the wall and your computers haven’t left the building. Those early moments are critical for stolen automobiles and will clue you in as to the potential for credit card fraud and identity theft.

3. Write out a list of stolen property and get in touch with your insurance agent. An essential part of a home security plan is an insurance policy with total coverage. The way to limit the potential for damage is to make a video of any valuables in your house to correspond to insured items, erasing the room for doubt. Also, having your driver’s license number or passport number etched into your property never hurts.

4. After the police have done their work and you have their report in your hands, start the damage control. The arduous process of filing an insurance claim might tell you whether you have chosen the right insurance provider. Also, get in touch with your banks and credit cad issuers to alert them of a possible security breach if you had stolen cards.

5. Once the smoke has cleared, find out what your home security company did or did not do. The big moment has occurred and you are still a family who was successfully robbed. Once they have made their assessment, find out if your home alarm system was at fault. Also, find out if your call to the police went in before theirs.

By: Erik Mandelson

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