Dear Heloise: My wife and I live in a very safe community where home invasions and porch pirates don’t seem to be a problem. So, you probably can imagine my shock to find out that four of my neighbors were robbed a short while ago.

I called a home security company to install monitoring equipment and they gave me a list of things to do to keep my home safe from thieves. I thought I’d pass it along to you in the hopes that it might help your readers stay safe during this holiday season: