House was robbed durring WCR, Advice? Options

[Andyrew]

So I came back from WCR to find my house robbed. They didnt do any damage, and there was no forced entry. Background is the neighborhood is a good, however its near a high school. I moved in in Feb and have been doing work on the house for the past few months.


Anyways, My mother came over to put something in my fridge (she ran out of room) last night at 3pm, then my dad came over @ 10 this morning to find out that my brand new 47" tv was gone, my loaded PS3, my games, movies, 60+ps2 game collection and my $2k desktop, as well as my Lincoln 135 welder.

Mom double checked ALL the locks, and ALL the windows and made sure everything was secure before she left last night. Like I said earlier there was no forced entry, either someone picked the locks or the previous owners had the key and got in.

I have already filed a police report, I plan on getting a shotgun, we have double bolted the main locks and I am changing the locks like I should have done months ago. I am considering gettin an alarm system but budget wise its not in the cards, but I might have to. I have changed all my online passwords, I will be changing my bank account incase they grabbed some of my checks.

Kinda bummed... All in all its a good 4k in stuff... and years worth of stuff from my computer.. I had 600gigs of media/movies..
Oh and I blew the turbo sometime in the WCR, I think it starved on oil from the oil like that i didnt replace...

Horrible end to a great weekend..

[elwood-914]

I had 2 co-workers recently have their home broken into.
#1 There were 3 of them, about 11am, rang the doorbell, when no one answered they picked the lock on the front door. What they didn't know was the homeowners 16 year old daughter was asleep in her room. When she heard them ransacking the house, she hid under the covers. Eventually they came into her room and realized there was someone home. They told her not to look at them and they left. Cops caught all three, members of a local gang.

#2 They had their home broke into during working hours, stole junk, CD's, not too much of value. They did take his Great Pyrenees dog. This turns out was just the beginning. They were actually casing the house. 3 weeks later they came back. Took the new Dodge Diesel, used it to rip the safe from the garage floor. They took everything, Food, Microwave oven, fryers, Frozen turkeys, hams....you name it they cleaned house. Even tried to take the light fixtures. They had a key rack with all the keys to all the vehicles. The dog came back after the first time, shaved of its hair.....they took her again.
Like someone said, you get it once, chances are they will come back.