A Safety Tip if You Live Alone

If you're one of the many apartment dwellers who choose to live alone, advertising that fact on your outgoing answering machine or voicemail message could open the door to crime. Stalkers and other criminals may be quicker to break into an apartment if they learn that it has only one occupant.

Here are some helpful suggestions on what to say in your outgoing message to make yourself less vulnerable to crime.

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