Does Living in a Gated Community Guarantee Home Security?
While the idea behind, and indeed the money behind living in a gated community may principally be keeping your family and belongings safe from the outside world, part of the danger of the private community is that families let their guard down. Many people assume that the hired security professionals will take care of any potential threat, and do not bother to comply with basic home security tasks like installing properly locking doors and windows, locking the doors and windows each time they leave the house, or even setting their property’s personal security system. While adding a secure checkpoint to the security equation is obviously a helpful security step, people living in such communities should also remember that being a resident of such a community brings with it status. It also lets the outside world know that you have valuable material and economic resources. Imagine being a thief and thinking about which houses would make the biggest pay day should you gain entry. While the
