Home security after you're homeless

Hurdles are always abundant it seems during the first two years of transitioning from homeless to homed, regardless of whatever spin is sung by service providers throwing numbers to the air in hopes of dollars raining back down.

I myself have been robbed at gunpoint on two seperate occasions while still in my work clothes enroute or around my home. What's scarier is that chances are both situations may have involved my own neighbors, rather than thieves scoping surrounding homes of people I know.

Chances are if you're coming out of homelessness and into a home, you've gotten a job. One of the first things to consider is your neighborhood...if it was cheap enough for you to get into it, chances are it's pretty risky. After getting your ducks in a row and the cable turned on, the next thing on your check list should be some form of home security, other than a baseball bat or 9-iron.

Over the last four years I've been victimized myself, talked neighbors who became victims of home invasion, as well as heard the stories of elderly women sexually attacked while heading to do errands on a regular basis.

While you can change your habits and movements, as long as you've got a home and close your eyes you're going to be vulnerable to any low life who's more desperate than you. Before you listen to anyone knocking at the door about life insurance or changing your faith, think about protecting the door from anyone that could hurt you or the ones you love most.