I live in a very descent neighborhood, not to rich and not to poor however since my neighbors moved in last year we have been plagued with break-ins. I have lived in my neighborhood for about 7 years now, the house across the street from me has gone through 3 different families since then.
A family of four moved in last winter, they are extremely friendly, always having bbq parties on the weekends, the dad is an outdoor enthusiast with outdoor vehicles and quads, boats and so forth. The wife is a stay home mom with two beautiful daughters however they are very neglectful with securing their personal belongings which is attracting unsavory people to our street. The issue is my happy go lucky neighbors keep leaving their garage door open or the vehicles unlocked which has resulted in me and my neighbors cars getting broken into 2 separate times.
I have now installed motion camera as well as sensors for my driveway and installed a new cedar fence and planted trees around the fence. Since i have done that however my neighbors have came over 3 more times to ask me to review my camera footage to id thieves that have walked into their garage or unlocked her minivan and stolen stuff from it.
Tonight is no exception i came home to the police officers outside their home and they even asked me if we could review the camera to id the suspect that took hes new mountain bike from hes garage. Well after my wife went and reviewed the cameras, i went over to speak with the husband and jokingly told him to keep hes fucking garage door close. As well as i told him that he had extra home insurance and some of the neighbors who had been robbed did not and have lost sentimental items which value could not be replaced.
I am going to start charging him for every time i have go review my camera because of their clumsiness. Seeing that we own our home he has not financial investment into the neighborhood we want to keep it safe.