New Builds And The Young Professional
If you’ve bought or are renting a newly built apartment, it’s quite possible that you and everyone else in your building are out at work all day. Which means that the entire building might be unoccupied during the day. (Unless you’re rich young professional, in which case there’s a porter or concierge.)
We are seeing more and more break-ins where the thieves have been able to make as much noise with power tools (e.g. chain saws!) as they like.
Have you considered a neighbourhood watch. Or seeing if you can get everyone in the building to contribute towards CCTV cameras?
If you do either of these, ensure that they’re prominently signed. And ensure that any camera are prominent and that their fittings are hidden or very robust.
This is a great idea. We need to do more to prevent robbery not make it easier for them. Install more than one lock, get CCTV, use neighbourhood watch. ALL of these things are effective enough to downsize robbery greatly.