Second Part of Securing a Vacation or Lake Home.

How-To Install Surveillance Cameras in a Vacation or Lake Home, Where Remote Surveillance Using the Internet or Smartphone is Necessary

In the first section we covered deterrents, now we cover surveillance as a means of protecting property in a remote vacation home or lake house.   After the break-in occured, I spoke with Sheriff’s deputies about ways to prevent a further break-in. I wish I could say they had great ideas that were easily implemented. Unfortunately, I was told that locks and alarms keep out the honest people, but the hard core criminal will find a way in if he wants something bad enough.  Two weeks after installing the alarm system, the thieves came back. They broke the same door they had used two weeks earlier. The deputies’ point Read More…

(Editor’s note, within one week of installing the new alarm system, the thieves came back. The entry door was pried or kicked open by force, however the alarm system activated the siren and the burglars left without taking anything from the inside of the house.)
One of the biggest challenges of owning a summer home or a remote residence is securing your valuables  while you are away.  Recently, Hal Jones, Online Media Director’s lake house was broken into and many tools, guns, fishing gear and other items were taken. Access to the house is through an always locked gate.  The only other way in to the small group of cabins is through the woods.  However, a well meaning neighbor had begun driving their four wheel ATV through a particular spot in the woods and created a trail that eventually widened enough for a 4 x 4 Read More…