Protecting and securing your vacation home: How to secure a vacation home even if you’re miles away.
The safety and security of your vacation rental is important to you, and to us as well. The first rule to keeping your vacation home secure (and giving you peace of mind)? Doing what you can to prevent incidents in the first place. Taking precautions and having the right security essentials in place will go a long way in warding off potential risks. Plus, this will help ensure a smooth and safe stay for your guests. Here are vacation home security tips to safeguard your home, while also helping to keep your guests feeling secure and protected.
Smart locks
Take back the keys, then throw them away. Keyless vacation rental locks are not only more appealing to travelers (goodbye in-person check-ins), they’re also one of the smartest ways to secure access to your home. There are several smart locks on the market. Some offer guests the opportunity to use an app, to unlock them. Others allow homeowners to assign unique codes to guests during their stay and revoke them after check-out.
Alarm System
You don’t want guests to have to disarm a security system. It’s stressful. But if the property is going to be unoccupied for long periods, you should have a security system that you can control from your phone.
Exterior Security Cameras
Guests do not want to be monitored by security cameras. It comes across as a little creepy. But most vacation homes these days have exterior cameras, or at the very least, doorbell cameras. As the owner, you can use the doorbell camera to notify you when guests come and go. You can also verify the number of guests in your vacation rental.
You can also link your video doorbell to your smart speaker and have it turn your lights on or off as your guests arrive and depart, saving you money and creating a comfortable welcome for them.
If you have a pool, you’ll definitely want to monitor that. So you should have cameras for the driveway at minimum, and a pool if you have one. You should not have cameras that can be easily unplugged by guests. And you can’t use battery-powered cameras that have to be frequently recharged.
We’ve only skimmed the surface for the number of smart technologies and home automation you can add to your vacation rental. Implementing just a few of these modern gadgets to your property can help you to save money and time, as well as increase security, comfort and your rental’s worth. Contact us anytime to talk about the options for your vacation rental.