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Your front yard
Having an unkempt front yard, littered with door ads, old newspapers, and weeds is a blaring sign that no one is home and one that criminals look for, Paulsen says. If you’re out of town, ask a neighbor to pick up any papers, turn lights on and off, and basically make your house look lived in, he advises. Or, even better, hire a house sitter.