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Things To Do

• Let your neighbors know that you are out of the town, so that they can keep an eye on your apartment. They can notice if any suspicious activity is going around your apartment.
• If you think that bad lighting, overgrowth of landscape are providing ideal places for some one to hide you should immediately report it. Your property manager is responsible for providing safe outdoor environment and also with working locks.
• Be careful while walking from one apartment to the other late at night or using common rooms like Weight Room, Laundry Room and Alarm Room.
• If you find any suspicious person around your apartment, report it immediately to the apartment management. That of course does not mean that you will report about every person you don’t know.
• Properly lock your car door.

Things Not To Do

• If you are not present, do not leave a note on the mailbox and also on the door indicating your absence.
• Do not advertise that you are living alone. Use initials in mailbox and telephone listing. Criminals generally target single people.
• Get on to the elevator with only one unknown person. Inside the elevator, stand close to the control panel.
• Do not leave your valuables in such a position that they are seen from outside the flat.

Fire & Smoke Issues

• Check whether the Fire Alarms are working in the apartment or not. Old apartments sometimes do not have alarms and even when they have they are not smoke alarms.
• Replace your Smoke Alarm battery at least seasonally to ensure that it works properly. You can also get a cheap insurance policy for this.
• If you find that your apartment does not have an alarm, immediately report this to the landlord and insist him to install one or two alarms immediately.
• You must notice the place where the fire alarms are placed in the apartment. If you do not find them, speak to your landlord about them.
• You can also suggest your landlord to hold a small meeting about Fire Safety in the apartment. During this meeting instructions can be given on how to use a fire alarm.
• Most of the fire deaths are due to smoke inhalation and not the flame. So make sure that there are proper procedures for preventing smoke inhalation.
• Keep the number of the Local Fire Service next to your telephone.
• Also keep heavy duty electrical or duct tape to press it across the bottom of your bedroom door so that no smoke can enter your bedroom.
• Make some arrangements so that you can safely leave the apartment if you suddenly heard of a fire breakout in your apartment.
• During the fire safety plan you should also decide where all the residents will gather during a sudden fire breakout.
• There is no point that in talking and discussing about fire, rather you should chalk out a plan that starts with your safety and ends with the safety of the building.

Safety Tips For Women

• Crime affects everybody, irrespective of your age or gender, but women are worst affected by it. Every year thousands of women became the target of stalkers, sex offenders and worst. But that doest not mean that women living in urban setting start considering themselves insecure, rather they can use their environment for protecting them.
• If you feel that you are at risk, especially in your apartment, then you can take several measures to protect yourself. They are, in fact, the highest and probably the safest form of housing available in big cities.
• Before you move to a new apartment, make sure that the locks are changed. Take it in writing. You never know, the earlier residents might have copies of the key to his friends. This should be conveyed to the management and they can have a copy of your new key.
• When you move in to the new apartment, you will be asked how you want your name to appear on the directory pad of the apartment. Do not write your full name. Then it will be easily recognized that you are a single woman living alone, instead write the initial of your first name and your full last name.
• Take a look at your mailbox. Are the contents inside them visible? If yes, then cover them with a piece of paper from inside the box. If your apartment also has a mail slot on the front door, do the same with it also.
• Once you are living, do not keep the doors of the flat unlocked. If you ever suspect that the front door of your apartment has been tampered with something, do not enter your apartment.
• Get to know your neighbors well and also about their schedule. That includes, agreeing to close any outside doors that might have kept open and not allowing any strangers to enter or waiting outside the doors.
• To look after each other’s safety, choose a common day of the week when you can do the laundry. It is not a very good idea to hang out alone in the laundry room as the laundry rooms are usually located in the basement of the building and are usually dark and unprotected.
• If someone knocks your door, open it only after looking through the peephole first. If your door does not have one, ask your landlord or building management authority to install one on your door.
• While getting inside the elevator, check its inside first. If you find somebody whom you don’t know and your instinct tells you something, wait for the next elevator.
• When you are leaving your underground parking garage, be alert about your surroundings. Never leave your car if you find someone suspicious. Always carry a phone in your car.

Keep Your Apartment Safe

• You might hate your neighbors, you have all the freedom to think their throbbing metal as nuisance, but it is wise not to make that angst go against you. They are the one who look after your apartment when you are not there.
• Many people think that the landlord is responsible for anything stolen from the house. But the fact is not that. The landlord is responsible for the building and not the possessions inside it. So, it is wise to get insurance. The Renter’s insurance can not be stretched much.
• Make sure that your property manager fulfils his duties. If he does not follow any one of the following duties, it is your responsibility to complain as a tenant:
  
  
  1. Provide the tenant, with a working deadbolt lock. If your door does have one, speak to your landlord and install one right now.
  2. To replace the locks between tenants.
  3. Provide the tenant with adequate lights outside the door.
  4. Provide the tenant with a peep-hole on the door.
  5. Make sure that the landscaping has not overgrown. Cut the bushes if it is thick.