subject: Your Home Security in Florida is Probably Not Adequate [print this page] Your Home Security in Florida is Probably Not Adequate
Everyone in Florida should make home security one of their top priorities. Your loved ones and most of your material possessions reside in your house, so it only makes sense that you make sure it's adequately protected. Many people try to implement a variety of seemingly unrelated measures in an attempt to create their own form of comprehensive protection, and for the most part that would go a long way towards keeping criminals away. But only an alarm system provided by a reputable and professional company is effective enough to remove all worry from the equation.
To help understand why a home alarm system is the only truly comprehensive measure you can have implemented, you have to see that no combination of the various other measures will suffice. For example, you could try protecting the front of your home with motion-activated lights and brand new door locks, and protecting your backyard with a guard dog. Additionally, you can foster the good habit of always locking your doors when you go somewhere. You might implement so many different measures that you could start feeling like your home is impenetrable. Unfortunately, the actual situation is a lot different. Those lights in the front will only be effective at night, yet contrary to popular belief most criminals strike in the day time when their victims are at work or on vacation. Those locks would be useful if criminals didn't have a window they could break to gain entry nearby. That guard dog in the back is often asleep on the job and could easily be coaxed by a cunning criminal. Even if the dog couldn't be coaxed, that criminal could always try to set it loose or just avoid the backyard altogether. As you can see, there would be a lot of holes in that security solution.
Those measures definitely have their minor uses, but only a home alarm system will stop all criminals no matter how resourceful they are. Such a system cannot be bypassed. That system will most definitely have the final say when it comes to burglaries and robberies. Should a criminal ever get past one of its door or window sensors, they wouldn't be able to get past the array of motion sensors that would be installed around your home. Once the sensors pick up movement, the system will notify your alarm company. Multiple backup systems will be in place too. If your home should lose power, your phone line be disconnected and your primary call center be busy, your home alarm system would still find a way to alert the proper authorities. There's a reason why banks and businesses in Florida use the same basic kind of system: they work.
It's probably easy to see now why any combination of the other measures just won't be adequate. Ultimately, a home alarm system is what you need on your side. Short of creating one yourself, you wouldn't be able to mimic the kind of protection it provides. And since they're so affordable, it really makes sense to sign up for one as soon as you can.
