Window Alarms
I learned a lot about home security when I worked as a maid to pay for college. There were a lot of great homes that I cleaned on a weekly basis, and most of them had some sort of alarm system. There were many great houses in great neighborhoods, but there were also some really nice ones hidden in not so nice neighborhoods. You would often never know it from the outside, but some of the houses in the bad neighborhoods were nicer than the obvious ones. One thing I noticed a lot of were window alarms.
We were often warned not to open any windows while in a house because you never knew if they had window alarms installed. In most cases, they were silent alarms, but some of them would sound off rather loudly. I know this because some of my coworkers would open the windows despite the warning from the supervisor. In many cases, you could actually tell there were window alarms, but there were some instances when you could not see them at all. That is why you never took the chance unless the homeowner told you otherwise.
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