Lets talk home security! For those who keep some gold/silver at home.....
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What is your method of protection? I just got off the phone with Broadview security and have an appointment scheduled this coming week with them. Anybody use a monitored home security system? Pros/cons? I also have a lead dispersal device or two in order to tide me over while the cops leave the donut shop and start heading over if I happen to be home while the dirtbag starts kicking in my windows. What do you guys use or recommend for home security?
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Dogs are good to let you know someone's around and to wake you if you are sleeping and when they alert, you can alert too. I don't think they really will attack though but they might discourage someone with all the noise and carrying on to where the slime bag burglar would pick an easier place. If you throw my dogs some treats, you own 'em...not good. Lead dispersal devices are handy disincentivizers.
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for security, we have a sign out front that says, "go away, no gold or silver inside" plus if anyone goes near the treasure on the table, our cat turns his head and looks impassive.
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Besides that I have guns all over the house now that kids are grown and gone. A surprise behind every door and under every bed.
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<< <i>What is your method of protection? I just got off the phone with Broadview security and have an appointment scheduled this coming week with them. Anybody use a monitored home security system? Pros/cons? I also have a lead dispersal device or two in order to tide me over while the cops leave the donut shop and start heading over if I happen to be home while the dirtbag starts kicking in my windows. What do you guys use or recommend for home security? >>
1. shop around so you know the market & haggle on price
2. make sure final price includes an service if problems arise in future (window/door contacts installed/replaced etc)
3. they will try an put you in a 2-3 year contract
4. make sure on/off capabilities thru cellphone is available & FREE
You also get a discount on home insurance with an home alarm.
make sure its police that come an not some rent a cops
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On a serious note, you can do a lot better than broadview. Check out Safemart. You can build you own wireless intrusion system with up to like 35 nodes, which sounds like a lot but isn't) and do interactive monitoring to your cell phone and since you own the equipment you can hire a monitoring service for like $9 a month vs $45. The information on how to do it is out there but you have google hard for it.
<< <i>In my backyard I have a mine shaft that goes down 1,850 feet. At the end of this shaft is a cave with a small lake and island. There is a ring of fire that goes off whenever someone enters the shaft. On the island is THE safe but it is surrounded by claymores. The actual route to the safe is overhead and........I've said too much. >>
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Add a gun and dog and you have it covered!
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expensive houses in the area to choose from. I also don't tell anyone what I buy.
<< <i>Own a home under 1/2 million, very modest home with no security system. Can't see anyone breaking in with many other
expensive houses in the area to choose from. I also don't tell anyone what I buy. >>
Under ½ million
My house is under 50k ! ! !
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Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!
The only thing I keep in a bank SDB are family papers. The IRS (and, if you live in California, the FTB) can get into them practically at will. Does anyone really believe that when the chickens come home to roost that will be able to just saunter down to Bank of America and get their AGE's out of the vault? Excuse me while I have a laughing fit.
The only exception, if you have one in your area, would be a private vault company that will not request your SSN and will provide you a numbered account. And yes, they do exist, at least in Northern California
Just like diversifying in the PM's themselves, I diversify in the locations of secure storage.
I just hope I don't become to senile to remember where they are.
<< <i>What is your method of protection? I just got off the phone with Broadview security and have an appointment scheduled this coming week with them. Anybody use a monitored home security system? Pros/cons? I also have a lead dispersal device or two in order to tide me over while the cops leave the donut shop and start heading over if I happen to be home while the dirtbag starts kicking in my windows. What do you guys use or recommend for home security? >>
Be careful if you use a cable (broadband) digital phone service. My home security is my only reason for keeping Ma Bell, otherwise I'd have switched to Vonage years ago.
AJ??? Also, if you watch (and believe) the Broadview commercials, it would appear your best bet would be a male living in either a predominately minority community or a gay community. In their TV ad's, apparently the only criminals are horny white guys with white women as the victims. You'd think they would expand their marketing demographics up to appeal to a variety of people besides scared white women. PC, you gotta love it.
<< <i>It all goes into a safety deposit box or two at the bank.
The only thing I keep in a bank SDB are family papers. The IRS (and, if you live in California, the FTB) can get into them practically at will. Does anyone really believe that when the chickens come home to roost that will be able to just saunter down to Bank of America and get their AGE's out of the vault? Excuse me while I have a laughing fit.
The only exception, if you have one in your area, would be a private vault company that will not request your SSN and will provide you a numbered account. And yes, they do exist, at least in Northern California >>
You mean to tell me the government could put a lockdown on access to you SDB, in which you could only open it with the presence of a Treasury officer? Oh wait, THEY HAVE done that before!!! A SDB is probably the very worst place you could store your valuables. Better off just doing some midnight gardening IMO.
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<< <i>You mean to tell me the government could put a lockdown on access to you SDB, in which you could only open it with the presence of a Treasury officer? Oh wait, THEY HAVE done that before!!! >>
That is from a HOAX (that all safe deposit boxes were locked down in 1933, and could only be opened in the presence of a treasury officer).
See About.Ag/safedepositboxes.htm for details. It never happened. We traced it down to a book written in 1996, the book is obviously wrong (they claim it is from Executive Order 6102, which it is not), and there is no information that we could trace back to anything other than a hoax.
Of course, there are cases where safe deposit boxes can be sealed or frozen for various purposes (e.g. in some states they are sealed if you die). But there are also cases where warrants can be issued so that your house can be searched.