[NJblue]

Not sure how much of a threat having your name on your lamp post is. It is far easier to find out if someone is home by just ringing the door bell. If they come to the door, you ask them if they want their shrubs trimmed and then leave.

[MikeV]

Originally Posted by NJblue

Not sure how much of a threat having your name on your lamp post is. It is far easier to find out if someone is home by just ringing the door bell. If they come to the door, you ask them if they want their shrubs trimmed and then leave.

The house that was burglarized has a name sign with only the ladies first and last name on it. So knowing a single lady lives there may or may not have been a factor.

[Polar Bear]

Originally Posted by NJblue

Not sure how much of a threat having your name on your lamp post is...

Agree. With caller ID and other phone technology the way it is today, It would be a shaky assumption for criminals to equate a no-answer to nobody-home.

[Indydealmaker]

Originally Posted by Shimpy

Hurricane code here is not as strict as Dade County codes in Miami. There, all outside doors must open out.......not in as my door is here. Opening out makes the inside push of the door not only supported by the latch, but by the entire frame. You won't kick in a door that opens out.

In Miami, that is probably not Hurricane code. It is probably criminal code!

[fltbuff71]

Move to a truly gated community

[kittygilchrist]

Originally Posted by Walter123

Let's all switch signs with each other! That should confuse the bad guys.

What does your name have to do with a decision to break in?

[kittygilchrist]

Nearly two dozen arrested in Sumter County drug sting | www.wftv.com
These are our neighbors....good for leos on this one...last april.

[Indydealmaker]

Originally Posted by fltbuff71

Move to a truly gated community

Bold, daytime burglaries are difficult to prevent even in gated communities. The Villages homes are hosts at any given time to hundreds, if not thousands of unvetted contractors and maintenance crews. Once inside those gated communities, these guys have unfettered access.

I suppose that small, residential villages with attended gates would be less likely to have this problem, but Villagers get all hot and bothered about the cost of flowers, let alone paying for private security and an army of guards at the gates.

[Bonny]

We also have 100,000. Don't think that there aren't a few unsavory people that live here.

[Bonanza]

Originally Posted by NJblue

Not sure how much of a threat having your name on your lamp post is. It is far easier to find out if someone is home by just ringing the door bell. If they come to the door, you ask them if they want their shrubs trimmed and then leave.

What you're saying is true, however,
I don't think they really want to be seen and have their face remembered.

[Bonanza]

Originally Posted by fltbuff71

Move to a truly gated community

There are more burglaries in gated communities than non-gated.
Most of them are during the day.
The thinking is there is better "stuff" in gated communities
because the people have more $$$.

[NJblue]

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[graciegirl]

The guys arrested so far didn't look like the contractors that we see around the villages. They looked like non workers to me.

[patfla06]

Our first sign had our first and last name.
Our Second sign has just our first names.

We also put in an alarm system.
Have always had one even in Tampa where
we lived in a gated and guarded community.

[tomwed]

If you installed this door stop on the inside of your exterior door do you think it would be possible to force the door open?
Of course there are other ways to enter a house.