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Posted By GenoS on 08/10/2017 1:49 PM
Tim, thanks for those links. The first one, "Top Ten Security Mistakes..." should be taken with a huge grain of salt in my opinion. It reads more like a sales pitch with copious amounts of fear thrown in for good measuure, e.g. "Security is no longer an amenity but a legal necessity." Still, it does contain some good information.
We have a guard house at our entrance and exit gates. The original developer originally must have contemplated having it manned, but it has never been so. Its main use is its tiny bathroom that the landscaping contractor's employees use when they're here. We are considering tearing it down when the time comes in the next few years to replace our automatic entrance/exit gates. We insure it, we maintain it, we landscape around it, part of our reserves are for it, and it does nothing for us. Some have suggested that just the possibility that there might be someone in there acts as a deterrent to would-be burglars. Our insurance agent doesn't think so.
Just like the DPS parking an empty unit along side the interstate highway. It does work. In your situation, I would consider tinting the windows and installing motion sensing lights on the outside. It's true it won't stop all on them, but may turn many away.
The only people that know it's unmanned are the residents and the landscapers.....