CWL said:Alarm, dogs, neighbors.
Don't forget that good relations with your neighbors is another layer of security. When everyone helps to watch out for strangers, BGs find it harder to cruise and case your home.
+1
Slightly before, during and after Hurricane Ike some of our neighbors and I started using FRS radio's to communicate. Great help during the hurricane and after and we have kept it going as a quasi neighborhood watch, which has worked great.
It is only 3 or 4 houses, but considering that home invaders are clipping power and telephone lines and the commencing the B&E, these make a ton of sense.... Especially in Rural areas.