Burglary - Important Notice Regarding Household Contents Insurance

Our general contractor has for the windows in "half RC2 equipment" = RC2 fittings and locks but no RC2 glass

"Certified RC2N" or version "based on RC2"? We have the latter, indeed it doesn't cost much money, but then it's also only half-baked ...

Maybe there simply haven’t been enough break-ins in our area yet. I don’t know anyone in our neighborhood in the last 15 years who has been broken into. That’s why we prefer to spend our money on things that we consider more sensible.

I’m keeping my fingers crossed for you that it stays that way.

We were house number 3 in our neighborhood in the last few weeks. Thanks to our windows, we came off lightly – unfortunately, it was different for the other affected ones.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you that it stays that way. We were now at house number 3 within the last few weeks in our residential area. Thanks to our windows, we got off with a blue eye - for the other affected ones, unfortunately, it looked different.

I'm very sorry for you and your neighbors. A break-in is always a violation of privacy that no one wishes for. I am still a strict opponent of these omnipresent home cameras, motion detectors, and the like. As a walker, you already feel monitored by all that nonsense. Every reasonably smart burglar covers their face and kicks out the motion detector lamp. The lamp at my neighbor's goes off so often that I don't even look anymore. I remember a statistic that most burglars are opportunistic thieves, meaning they exploit an open front door, patio door, etc. Better to look twice there than to spend thousands of euros on technology.

There are pros and cons to everything. Of course, you can hope to make it as difficult as possible for the burglar so that he/she might try the neighbor's instead. Or you can hope that he/she doesn't even try. Because let's be honest, a good burglar laughs at that and gets into every house. The damage is usually even greater because the great "security technology" was damaged or because the burglar then vents some anger.

A good example is our cars. It's frightening how thieves are always one step ahead of technology. And now someone wants to tell me that great alarm systems or surveillance cameras or some kind of fingerprint scanners are secure?

Maybe holiday lights with motion detectors help... provided they come at night... or a big bad dog, provided it isn't put to sleep first. Did I forget something?

Hello Dirk

unfortunately it has now caught us too.

Goodness - glad it remained just a scare for you!

Thank you for the important information about the insurance as well as your explanation of the existing security on your windows. As the saying goes: Learning by doing - hopefully the deterrent will also help to raise awareness among potential builders!

Rhenish greetings

I’m keeping my fingers crossed for you that it stays that way.

I personally find Doc’s post – who always stands out to me positively here anyway – enormously valuable and sensitizing. Great post. Good that not much happened, apart from property damage.

The points regarding insurance: great, I’ll call my insurance agent anyway tomorrow, those points will come up. I vaguely recall: I am insured against everything. If something is missing: I’ll change that.

I am also scared when it comes to burglary.
And yes – I have upgraded technically (not completely finished yet).
And the basic equipment of the house is already impressive. It’s not so easy to break into my house.
But I am also a realist, through and through and pure.
You can get into any place if you really want to.

We have a good neighborhood here. Extremely rare good cohesion, which has recently developed here. Sensational, I would never have imagined this three years ago.

We have discussed the issue of burglary, especially in NRW, where it is a very big issue, with our closer neighbors (some of whom live 10 houses away).

Besides technical measures, there is almost always someone around who keeps watch. We, the neighbors, know who is away, at work, we also check the houses during the day and in case of vacation/absence, we look after each other’s houses.

There is no 100% security.
Right now, we in NRW are being plagued by robbery gangs so much that it’s literally frightening. They’d rather run speed camera marathons here than catch the gangs that rob. The political measures are creepy, laughable, and poor. It pisses me off – every day there’s a note in the newspaper about a burglary next door.. Here in NRW more money is spent on electricity for speed cameras, although everyone’s already crawling around at 40 instead of 50 – at burglary scenes the police hide, no one does anything here. Complete failure is happening here.

In the worst case, you can only hope that the gangs fail because of technical or neighborhood barriers. A burglary is a total nightmare. My wish is to never have to experience it.

Thorsten