Those are all very valid points and I agree. That said I have timed a home watch person in our neighborhood, from the moment she left the car until she returned to it 147 seconds. Of course MY home watch person would do better certainly with the weekly checks promised.
Well, no, not really. It's easy to see time of entrance (via the alarm system) to departure: two to four minutes. The weekly home checks are twice to once a month.
Now it doesn't take too long to walk through the home -that I can see- but two to four weeks of a plumbing leak would be a bad call to get. Point is there is room in this discussion for automating your home and mitigating the potential for damage to it. Now, I certainly understand that virtually no one will do this as THEIR home watch person checks the home all the time. But, as you say it is a liability to rely on someone else.
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