This might take a second to get to the point, but I think it's worth it...
A few months ago I bought a new house. My buddy liked the neighborhood so much, he bought two. One for his office and another to live in. All 3 houses were foreclosures that we got good deals on.
Friday night his "office" was broken into and burglarized. They got quite a few small things including quite a bit of cash. The flatscreen TVs and computers were untouched. <- that's important.
So the police came over Saturday morning to take the report. I was already there with him cause he discovered it and called me after the police. A window in the back of the house was broken but clearly was not the entry point. They broke the window into the tub and it was clear nobody could crawl through the 8" hole they left and they didn't break the sliding part of the window. No, they got in some other way.
At first we figured the front door was left unlocked, but that's really remote. This guy is very conscious of locking his doors. We were all pretty confused, how could they get in? Well, about that time we thought, hey, where's the garage door opener? In the car, like usual. Then the cop says, "did you reset the garage door when you bought it?"
My buddy says, "Sure, I bought this new garage door remote and synced it with the door opener". And we reach the moral of this story. This is Not Good Enough.
When you sync the remote with garage door opener it does not clear the history of the other remotes it "knows". You have to press the button for 6 seconds to clear it. Current working theory is that the previous owners, who were evicted, had their garage door remote, opened the garage and came on in Friday night. They had 4 teenage boys. Police say odds are the kids did it because the TVs were not taken. Hard for a teenager to bring home a new flatscreen TV or computer and explain to the parents.
They were able to get some fingerprints so we'll see what happens next.
So, for those of us who have recently bought a foreclosed house, or even a pre-owned house, go clear that garage door opener and resync to a new remote that you know nobody has a copy of.
A few months ago I bought a new house. My buddy liked the neighborhood so much, he bought two. One for his office and another to live in. All 3 houses were foreclosures that we got good deals on.
Friday night his "office" was broken into and burglarized. They got quite a few small things including quite a bit of cash. The flatscreen TVs and computers were untouched. <- that's important.
So the police came over Saturday morning to take the report. I was already there with him cause he discovered it and called me after the police. A window in the back of the house was broken but clearly was not the entry point. They broke the window into the tub and it was clear nobody could crawl through the 8" hole they left and they didn't break the sliding part of the window. No, they got in some other way.
At first we figured the front door was left unlocked, but that's really remote. This guy is very conscious of locking his doors. We were all pretty confused, how could they get in? Well, about that time we thought, hey, where's the garage door opener? In the car, like usual. Then the cop says, "did you reset the garage door when you bought it?"
My buddy says, "Sure, I bought this new garage door remote and synced it with the door opener". And we reach the moral of this story. This is Not Good Enough.
When you sync the remote with garage door opener it does not clear the history of the other remotes it "knows". You have to press the button for 6 seconds to clear it. Current working theory is that the previous owners, who were evicted, had their garage door remote, opened the garage and came on in Friday night. They had 4 teenage boys. Police say odds are the kids did it because the TVs were not taken. Hard for a teenager to bring home a new flatscreen TV or computer and explain to the parents.
They were able to get some fingerprints so we'll see what happens next.
So, for those of us who have recently bought a foreclosed house, or even a pre-owned house, go clear that garage door opener and resync to a new remote that you know nobody has a copy of.
