Please check out the below tips and advice to help keep your property secure.

- Keep the exterior well lit at night, using dusk to dawn lighting and warning signs.

- Store your valuables in a secure place, like a safe or behind locked doors in rooms that aren’t part of the remodel.

- Consider using property marking - Secured by Design - Secured by Design

- Ensure the area around the house is clean and free of building materials and easily accessible tools

- Talk with the contractors. Learn what their policy and practices are when it comes to tools and building materials and take an active interest in how they are keeping items secure.

- If you are staying somewhere else during the construction, consider using a surveillance system to monitor the activities while you are gone.

- Be on site, but out of the way as much as possible.

- Drive by the property and check up on things.

- Make surprise visits to the house, this will demonstrate to potential offenders that you could show up anytime.