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How to Protect Yourself from a potential Break-In

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How to Protect Yourself from a Break-In

The tragedy of the Idaho murders has caused all of us to question how safe we really are. Suddenly we’re wondering if our locks, doorbell cameras, and security systems will prevent us from a break-in. The good news is that there are some things you can do to make sure you’re safe while you’re at home.

The first thing you need to do is make sure you’re in the habit of locking up your home, both while you’re away and while in residence. This doesn’t just mean bolting the front door. Go through your house and make sure all the doors that lead to the exterior are locked. Next, do the same with your windows. This is also an excellent opportunity to check the quality of your locks. Make sure that they are in good repair and that they actually keep the door and window locked.

Don’t Be Ostentatious

Don’t make your home look like an appealing risk to would-be robbers. This means you shouldn’t leave your expensive toys lying in the driveway. You also shouldn’t brag about all the valuables you have in your home. Living a quiet life and keeping all of your treasures tucked away might not seem like fun, but it will keep you and your personal property safe.

Be Smart with Your Spare Key

The best thing you can do to keep your home safe is to fit your door with a keypad and routinely change the code, but if you still use a key to open your doors, don’t leave a spare key tucked in a flowerpot or under your welcome mat. In fact, don’t leave the key anywhere outside where it could be found by a would-be thief. Keep your key on your person or tucked in a safe place in your car.

Burglar Proof Your Front Yard

Burglars are attracted to homes that provide a great deal of natural coverage or places where they can hide whenever someone drives past. Removing hedges, shrubs, sheds, and trees that are near your home will deter them. You should also set up a few motion-activated spotlights, yes, any passing wildlife will activate the lights, but they will also cause a burglar to look for a different place to rob.

The best way to make sure your home remains safe, especially while you are away, is to be discrete about what you share on social media. Don’t talk about your vacations and other trips until after you’re home. The last thing you want is to broadcast the fact that your home is unprotected.

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How to Respond to a Stalking Situation

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How to Respond to a Stalking Situation

There’s nothing funny about being the victim of a stalking situation. It’s a crime that often quickly escalates and can end in violence. If you suspect you have a stalker, there are a few things you should do right away.

Take the Situation Seriously

Don’t assume that you’re simply feeling a little jumpy or that you’re making mountains out of molehills. One of the reasons so many stalkers are successful is that they do a good job of appearing benign at first. While you probably shouldn’t immediately accuse the neighbor you randomly ran into a few nights in a row of stalking you, it’s okay to feel paranoid and to start taking steps to protect yourself.

Alert Someone to the Situation

The first thing you need to do is let someone know what’s happening. Not only will you feel better after you’ve spoken to someone, but they will also have your back. They are a second set of eyes that can see if someone is lurking each time you go out. The more people who are in on the situation, the less risky it becomes.

Record Everything

If the case goes to court, you’re going to have to prove that you were being stalked and how long the stalking when on. If you tell people about the situation, they can help back up your story, but you should also have a written record of everything that happened. Make sure you keep a record of each correspondence, seemingly random encounter, unwanted gift, and spotting that occurred.

Shake Up Your Routine

Make it hard to keep tabs on you. While you may not be able to change where you work or live, you can take different routes each time you travel. You should also change the times you go out and the locations where you shop.

Contact the Police

If things don’t change or if the stalking seems to be escalating, it’s time to get the police involved. Take your evidence to the police station, present it to the officers, and arrange to have a personal protection order (PPO) filed against the person who has been stalking you.

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Keep Your Job with the Benefit of Posting Bail

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Keep Your Job with the Benefit of Posting Bail 

Bills don’t stop coming just because you’ve been arrested. Even though you’re in jail and facing criminal charges, it doesn’t mean you’re landlord doesn’t want their monthly rent, that the bank will forgive your car loan, or that your other bills will simply disappear. What it could mean is that you’ll lose your home, car, and good credit rating.

The good news is that there is a way to prevent yourself from losing everything. All you have to do is post bail. Doing that immediately gets you released from jail so that you can go to work, continue earning a weekly paycheck, and stay on top of your monthly bills.

The problem that some people face is that even though they would really like to post bail and work, they simply don’t have the funds needed to cover their bail. That’s where we come into the picture. We help you with bail so that you can get yourself to work.

The way our program works is if you can’t afford the entire 10% we charge as a fee, we’ll set up a payment plan for you. The great thing about our payment plan is that in addition to being zero-down, zero interest, it’s also flexible. That means you can set it up so that your payments to us coincide with your weekly paycheck.

In some cases, when the bail is low, we’re happy to allow you to skip the process of having you include a co-signer or put up collateral if you can prove that you have a full-time income.

One of the questions you’ll need to ask when you’re released from jail is whether or not you have a curfew while you’re out on bail. If you’re told that yes, you do have a curfew, you’ll have to work with the court to make sure that your work schedule doesn’t clash with your curfew and create additional legal troubles for you, which could end with your bail getting revoked.

Since one of the biggest conditions in the bail bond contract you sign is that you agree to attend all of your mandatory court appointments, it’s important to give your employer a great deal of advanced warning about upcoming court dates so that they can schedule around those commitments. Remember, missing a single court appearance will get your bail revoked.

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