Pub. 1 2016 Issue 4

15 ISSUE 4 2016 • Start a neighborhood watch; if necessary, hire a security company. • Ask police to review safety in the apartment complex. • Do regular security inspections, and ask residents to let you know if they see a problem or have an idea for another way to improve security. • Make arrangements for tenants to borrow an engraver so they can mark expensive belongings with a state abbreviation and a driver’s license number. Encourage tenants to make a list of serial numbers for expensive items and to store the list in a safe place. • Have a camera available so tenants can create a photographic inventory of their possessions. Another way to improve safety is to teach your tenants basic principles that will help keep them safer: • An unlocked door, even if it has a rst-rate deadbolt, isn’t going to keep anyone out. Encourage tenants to lock their homes when they leave even for a short time. • Ask tenants to look through the peephole before opening the door. If a stranger has identi cation, tenants can ask the stranger to slide the identi cation under the door instead of just opening up. • Keys and keychains should not be marked with apartment numbers. • Sometimes strangers will follow someone into a building. Teach tenants not to be helpful when someone they don’t know wants access to an area that should be limited to residents. • It’s much less likely that something will be stolen if a thief can see it. Valuable items should not be left in cars or on balconies. • Extremely valuable items should not be put into storage areas that are likely to be largely unsupervised. • When it’s late at night and not many people are around, it’s best not to be outside, in a parking garage, or anywhere that would make someone vulnerable, especially if a tenant is alone. • Encourage tenants to keep travel plans private as much as possible, and to leave on a light (possibly one on a timer) when away from home so that the apartment or condominium does not look empty. Having music play regularly on a timer while the tenant is gone is another good idea. • Women, especially when living alone, should use one or two initials on mailboxes in a lobby. C & J Chatham, for example, gives the impression that two people are sharing an apartment instead of one. Although it is common for women to use initials instead of names, a stranger can’t be sure that that’s being done. By making sure the complex is as secure as possible, and teaching tenants what they can do to protect themselves, you can do a lot to make sure that tenants are safe and can feel comfortable and protected in their homes. Residents expect the latest entertainment and communications technology in their lives. When you partner with Cox, you provide your residents with the most advanced products and services available in your area, with local support whenever you need it. And since Cox owns and maintains one of the nation’s largest hybrid fiber-optic networks, you get the bandwidth needed to support advanced connectivity demands. Become a Cox Signature Community, and make sure your residents get the services they want, today and in the future. Give your residents the riGht connections. Gigablast SM | Contour® TV | Cox Homelife SM | Digital Telephone Gerry Quarm MDU Sales Manager Gerry.Quarm@Cox.com 401-615-1299 Call Today 䌀吀䄀䄀 吀䠀䔀䌀伀一一䔀䌀吀䤀䌀唀吀䄀倀䄀刀吀䴀䔀一吀䄀匀匀伀䌀䤀䄀吀䤀伀一