Garage burglars are shoppers — they compare targets and take the best deal on the street. Understanding their checklist tells you exactly what to fix.
- Visible payoff. Windows that show a bike, tool chest, or quads; a door left open while you mow the lawn; a nice machine rolled out and back every day in view of traffic.
- Easy, quiet access. Dark side doors, no motion lights, fences and shrubs that hide someone working on a lock, detached garages far from bedroom windows.
- No eyes. No cameras, no doorbell, neighbors who can't see your garage from their windows.
- Predictable schedule. They notice when the household is empty — same commute, dark house weeknights.
Flip each signal: frost or curtain the windows, close the door even for five-minute jobs, put a motion light and a visible camera on every approach, and deadbolt the side door with a reinforced strike plate. Inside, chain the bike to a ground anchor so a break-in doesn't automatically mean a loss.
Then add the layer burglars can't see from the street: a hidden GPS tracker with motion alerts on anything with a steel frame. If they beat the locks anyway, your phone knows immediately, and police get a live location while the trail is minutes old — not a cold report the next morning.
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