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Quote: Originally posted by michael on 04/12/2011

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our house was broken into before we had a caravan and lots of stuff stolen.we were on holiday at the time.now i do not worry about it and just pay the insurance and go.our van is at home.

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our vans at home on the drive and several friends have asked me if I'm concerned thiefs will target our house when the van isnt there but I totally agree with murano.

We do live in a dead end road with no passing traffic other than the 10 or so neighbours houses after ours. So someone would have to come looking and we get so few people walking/driving up the road and the ex copper who we call Mr Nosey is always at home and dosent miss a thing. We're sure he logs us all in and out hes at the window so much

When our house was burgled the van was on the drive.  They seemed to go for houses with no lights on.

I have noticed that our van is a bit less noticeable with the cover on, especially at night.

We keep our current van at MIL's, she's nearly 80 and likes it  because she says it makes it look like a family lives there as she lives alone.

We were burgled at our last house with the van on the drive, we will bring ours back when getting for long breaks but we live in a very 'cosy' cul-de-sac now, it would be hard to mess around with a caravan without being noticed.

Hi, My Neighbours daughter had her house burgled last week, their cars were on the drive and they where in bed, her husband had cold and was not sleeping too well, he heard a noise in the house, he got up to check if it was one of the two children (one of the children sleep walks) had got out of bed, realised there was some one in the house, went down stairs picking up a golf club, and came face to face with the guy, who promptly made off carrying the children’s lap top and Xbox. So agree with other posts that it could have been an opportunistic thief  chancing his luck.

Quote: Originally posted by LobeyDosser on 04/12/2011

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If the money one spends putting the van in storage, was transferred to a good (and visible) burgler alarm system, that would be a better deterrent to oportunist thief.    

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We had a similar experience, had a good long talk to the police, and as a result we put the van in storage the day after. We have no regrets.

We always leave a car in the drive when we are away.

Jim