The following quiz will help determine if your home is an easy target for thieves. Click on the best answer to each question.

1.) How well do you know your neighbours?

A. You don't know them, but you'd like to.
B. You mind your own business, so should they.
C. You know your neighbours and their schedules well.

2.) The doors in your home are secured with:

A. Steel door chains.
B. Deadbolt locks.
C. Easy-open credit card locks, in case you forget your key.

3.) If locked out of your house, what’s the best way to get back in?

A. Use something from your unlocked tool shed.
B. A locksmith is the only way past the deadbolts on the doors and the bars on the windows.
C. The spare key from under the potted plant.

4.) How often do you leave your door unlocked?

A. Never. Not even when you’re home.
B. You sometimes leave the back door unlocked, but only when you go to the store.
C. Always. Making it that much easier to catch thieves in the act.

5.) Your property is surrounded by:

A. Six-foot hedges that block out the world
B. Trimmed trees and shrubs, creating clear lines of sight.
C. A giant steel wall

6.) You keep your valuables:

A. Under the mattress.
B. In a jewelry box on the top of the dresser
C. In a safety deposit box in a security vault protected by armed guards at the local bank

7.) The alarm system on your house:

A. Is too much of a hassle to arm every time you go out.
B. Goes off so often, your neighbours think it’s your doorbell
C. Is set every time you go out and registered with the False Alarm Reduction Program.

8.) When leaving on vacation you:

A. See no need to cancel newspapers or mail delivery.
B. Turn off the lights and pull the drapes so no one can see inside.
C. Set light timers to give your home a lived-in look.

9.) Your upstairs windows:

A. Don’t have locks. Thieves can’t reach them anyhow.
B. Are easily reached by that ladder you left propped up against the house
C. Are not near any climbable trellises or tree branches.

10.) When it comes to your car keys, you:

A. Take them out of the ignition wherever you park, except in your own driveway.
B. Park your car in the garage and keep the keys in a secure location.
C. Leave them in an easy to find location, like the key rack by the door.