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Quincy Home Security: Keeping Your Tools and Workshop Safe

November 21, 2011 by kennyslockinc

If you’re a woodworker, craftsman or just a do-it-yourselfer, you know it doesn’t take long to spend a lot of money on tools. Equipping a workshop is one of life’s greatest joys, but it’s also a significant financial investment. Tools are valuable. That’s why people steal them – like this man who stole $1,500 worth of tools from the Quincy Home Depot. Some thieves steal tools for their own use, while others sell the tools they steal for quick cash.

What can you do to make sure your tools and workshop are safe? Your Quincy locksmith shares these best practices:

Raise Your Awareness

It’s easy to take our tools and workshops for granted. We’re used to having them around – but we’re not used to thinking of tools as a quick source of ready cash. It’s sad but true that high quality tools are always a quick sale to flea markets, junk dealers, and people who don’t mind paying cash for tools that ‘just fell off the truck’. Raising your awareness that your tools are valuable and need protection is an essential first step.

Make Sure Your Tools Are Put Away When You’re Done Working

More than a few do it yourselfers have the unfortunate tendency to leave tools lying around where they last used them. If you have this habit, break it now! It’s incredibly easy for someone to just walk away with the saw you left outdoors unattended. Bring tools indoors when you’re finished with them.

Secure All Entrances To Your Home Workshop

All entrances to your home workshop should lock securely. This includes workshop doorways and windows. If your workshop has a garage door, that should lock securely. Thieves and would-be criminals look for easy access. They want to be able to get in and out of your shop fast; it only takes a few minutes to grab your tools and get away. Strong, secure home locking systems should include workshop and garage areas. If yours doesn’t, talk to your Quincy locksmith.

Boston Small Business Owner Bulletin: Small Business Security

November 10, 2011 by kennyslockinc

Being a small business owner is tough. It takes so much to build a successful business. It all starts with an idea, which you nurture and encourage with your hard work and effort. Countless hours, financial resources, and all of your energy goes into creating a thriving enterprise. Throw in a tough economy and the whole prospect becomes even more challenging.

Imagine how you’d feel if someone took it all away from you. There is no type of business or enterprise that is immune from criminal activity. Thieves look for opportunities to make quick cash. Vandals look for opportunities to wreak havoc. Identity thieves look for your business’ private records, using the information they find on your computer and in your filing cabinets to perpetrate frauds. You can lose everything you worked so hard for in a single instant.

Boston Business Security

Every small business owner needs to have a security plan. Talk to your Boston locksmith about what can be done to keep your Boston business, restaurant, bed and breakfast, apartment complex, managed property, or other location safe and secure. There are many types of locking systems. You can choose a system that allows the public access to certain parts of your business, but keeps them safely out of other areas. Security system options secure your property and monitor for fire, criminal activity, and other emergency systems.

Small business experts recommend allocating minimum 3-5% of your annual operating budget to security costs. Boston small business security is a sensible investment, protecting your physical plant, inventory, and employees. You’ve worked hard for what you have. You don’t have to let anyone take it away from you.

More Robberies in Cambridge: Keeping Your Home Safe

October 28, 2011 by kennyslockinc

Police are warning Cambridge residents to be especially careful in the wake of recent armed robberies, according to this Wicked Local Cambridge story. There will be additional uniformed police patrols in the area until the suspects are caught, and there are some valuable safety tips here about what to do if someone attempts to rob you.

Cambridge Home Security

When crimes like armed robbery occur in our own neighborhoods, we become more aware of our family’s safety and security. While these armed robberies took place on the streets, there are other criminals who prefer a stealthier approach: breaking and entering for burglary or worse. The rates of home invasion have been rising steadily across the country. How can you keep your family safe?

Make Every Entrance To Your Home Secure

The first step in increasing your family’s safety is ensuring that every entrance to your home is secure. That means doors, sliding glass doors, basement and garage entrances, and windows. You should be able to lock all of these entry points. Criminals will exploit any opportunity to gain entrance to your home. If you don’t already have locks in place, your Cambridge locksmith can install them for you. If you have locks but they’re not very good, your Cambridge locksmith can replace and upgrade locks.

Cambridge Home Locking Systems

Home locking systems allow you to enjoy total home security with the touch of a button. Talk with your Cambridge locksmith about the type of home locking system best suited for your home or business. All systems are selected for durability, reliability, and proven performance under even the toughest conditions. Home locking systems can be installed in any type of home, and won’t detract from the attractiveness of the home.

Awareness creates safety! Keeping your home well lit and well locked helps deter criminal activity.

Revere Security Spotlight: Increased Police Presence Applauded

October 24, 2011 by kennyslockinc

In a recent editorial in the Revere Journal, the Journal Staff applauded the move to increase the visible police presence, especially on Broadway. You can read the entire editorial here. One of the benefits cited as a result of the increased presence is a heightened sense of security enjoyed by the elderly and local business owners.

Our elderly friends and neighbors are particularly vulnerable to the criminal element. Older people have historically been viewed as an easy target. If you’re frail, in poor health, or simply can’t move the way you used to, the thought of facing down a home invader or would-be thief becomes especially terrifying.

If the increased police presence on Broadway reduces the amount of criminal activity targeting the elderly, that’s great news! Here are some other steps elders can use to help maintain their personal safety:

Secure Locks on Every Entrance

A simple way to improve home security for seniors is to make sure every door and window in the home locks securely. Criminals look for easy access to their victims: an open door or window – or one with an easily forced lock! – is an invitation to them. If you(or your parents or grandparents) don’t have good, strong locks on your doors and windows, talk to your Revere locksmith. Having locks installed is a simple step that can provide tremendous peace of mind.

Business Security Concerns

Many of today’s seniors are business owners and entrepreneurs. When you have everything you own tied up in a business, you want to protect it. Your Revere locksmith has a range of security options available for the business owner, designed specifically to meet your needs. Having a security system installed helps deter criminals.

Revere Home Security Systems for Seniors

Having a home security system installed is simple and more affordable than you might imagine.

Your First Home: Keeping Safe in Quincy

October 15, 2011 by kennyslockinc

“Maybe it’s crazy, but I can’t stop watching the news about Lisa Irwin. Nobody knows where this little baby girl is. She’s just gone.” Miranda L. looked at Cole, her newborn baby boy, safely asleep in his bassinet. “And I think what if that happened here? What if that happened to us?”

Anxiety and fears around infant abduction are very common, especially among new mothers. There’s no one as vulnerable as a newborn baby. As parents, we want to take every step possible to make sure our families are safe within our homes.

Quincy Home Security: What Are Your Options

Talk to your Quincy locksmith about ways you can make your home more secure. The first step is to make sure that every entrance to your home can be locked securely. That means doors and windows! Your Quincy locksmith can install new locks, repair broken locks, and replace older locks with newer, more secure models.

While no one knows what has happened to Lisa Irwin, child safety experts do know that abduction is often a crime of opportunity. The person who is looking to snatch a baby welcomes open doors and unlocked windows. They can get in and out easily and quickly! By having strong locks installed, you make it more difficult for would-be kidnappers to enter your home. The process would take longer – increasing the chances they’ll be seen and caught. Criminals don’t like those chances!

Another way to keep your baby safe is to have a home security system installed. There are many types of home security systems available in Quincy. Talk to your Quincy locksmith about having a home security system installed. They’ll go over your family’s needs, what type of monitoring you’d like, and what system will best fit your budget. Your home can be safe and secure without breaking the bank.

“That’s good news,” Miranda said, “Because I have a feeling I’ll be buying a lot of toys and diapers!”

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