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Quote: Originally posted by nitnat on 25/9/2012

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We have just bought a caravan, but cannot keep it at home due to its size and its on the deeds. We will however have it at home overnight before and after using it.......got me worried now that I shouldn't do it

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In my case i am home 24/7 and when we go away one of the cars (Has Alarm Fitted) sits where it normally does and we leave the House Alarm on and a night light and we get someone to check the house .  (I would love having our caravan on the drive with a Post in front of it  but it would stress me out and i would be checking it all the time to see if anything got stolen like the cassette toilet and the water heater has been took )

But the choice is yours to make (geoki)

The issue of vans on the drive and burglary has been raised on here many times before.

For myself, we live in a small village with a very low crime rate so the risks are much lower. Frankly I go away and don't worry about it.

My parents lived in neigbouring town, didn't have a caravan at all, cars parked on the drive and were burgled twice in three years, once when they were abroad on holiday and  once at knifepoint when my father was watching Emmerdale!

Sometimes in life, you just have to weigh everything up and take a decision on things.

Quote: Originally posted by Anniemacxx on 27/9/2012

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The issue of vans on the drive and burglary has been raised on here many times before.

For myself, we live in a small village with a very low crime rate so the risks are much lower. Frankly I go away and don't worry about it.

My parents lived in neigbouring town, didn't have a caravan at all, cars parked on the drive and were burgled twice in three years, once when they were abroad on holiday and  once at knifepoint when my father was watching Emmerdale!

Sometimes in life, you just have to weigh everything up and take a decision on things.

 

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Well you are lucky we brought our van out overnight and with the house being new the next day or so we receive a letter either move it because it not allowed on your tittle deeds when we brought the house we told them we have a caravan no problem if it just out overnight so we kept the letter and now they  let us do that ....

Quote: Originally posted by geoki on 15/10/2012

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Well that's the driveway started . Currently looking out on a mini digger sitting in the middle of an earthy trench.

[One of DS friends came to the door and asked if he was coming out to play. I said that he wouldn't be as if he looked at the ditch behind him....that's where i was gonna hide his body! Thankfully his pal knows me well enough by now to realise i was joking ]

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Yeoki you will love keeping it at home.

We like you had half our front garden put to driveway and now it is big enough to have the van at home with cars in front of it. The benefits to me outweigh the disadvantages.

I love the fact that I can wash the van or polish it at any time, take it out at short notice for a weekend away and when coming back can actually go home with it, not have to go miles off route into storage. We keep power to it regularly like Michael, makes a good emergency sleepover facility for a relative if they come down for a weekend etc.

As for security on the drive, there have been caravans stolen from some storage compounds and if like us you have some neighbours around us that are home during the day who 'miss' nothing I feel the caravan with its multitude of locks it safer on my drive with two cars in front of it at night and one during the day is safer at home than in storage.

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