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Student accommodation and lettings take a number of forms, the most common type are privately rented terrace houses in the Bournbrook neighbourhood - home to 7,000 students!
Some considerations that need to be taken into account when considering renting,
THE FACTS:
Advice for all residents on home security: BE SECURE ALWAYS
Burglars get in through windows and doors – keep external doors and windows locked, even when at home and in summer.
External doors – ideally these should open outwards.
Summer (landlords) – if the property is empty disconnect the water and gas, so that in the event of a burglary, the property is not extensively damaged.
Every broken gate is an entry point - report broken and inadequate gating as soon as you can to your landlord.
Computrace – fit it to your laptop so it can be tracked if stolen.
Use nets or blinds on ground floor windows and ones that open onto flat roofs, to conceal items inside the property.
Remove “Please come round the back” signs and use the front door where possible - Remember - approximately 80% of houses are broken into around the rear of the property. Don’t advertise to burglars if you are a student property.
Enter www.immobilise.com and register your valuable items, such as laptops, televisions and audio equipment on the national property database.
Always report damages to windows and external doors promptly to your landlord in the 1st instance, or the Bournbrook Community Safety Project:
Locks - good locks are important safety features - mortise locks are particularly important on doors. For more information click here. For more info
When going away over the holidays always take valuable items – for instance laptops and TV’s – home with you wherever possible.
Access to property rear - the most important thing that you can do is take ownership of any side alley gate and its keys. You should lock this like you would any external door to your house.
You’re not home – don’t let a burglar know! - Timer switches are a good way to give the impression someone’s in.
So you are off on a vacation period – check your property has been left safe and secure.
Check out Safer Students: www.west-midlands.police.uk/saferstudents
For Advice & Assistance:
Please contact the Community Wardens (link to contacts co-worker) who will be able to advise you further.
* Privately rented student housing is twice as likely to be
* burgled compared to that of owner occupied.
* Houses which have no security are nearly 10 times more likely to be burgled than those with simple measures in place (deadlocks & window locks)
* Terraced houses are a higher burglary risk than semi-detached or detached housing
* 16-24 yr olds are more likely to be victims of burglary
* 25% of offenders have committed a burglary whilst the tenants have been in.
* 66% of burglars break into the same house more than once
Specific to Bournbrook:
* 70% of offences involve a computer
* Approximately 80% of houses are broken into around the rear of the property
* 69% of rear burglaries are via a ground floor window
* Burglary in Bournbrook is three times the rate for the entire West Midlands area.
* October and November are the months most likely to be burgled.
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