Guest post written by my buddy Aldo Mays

When we moved into our house eight years ago, everything was perfect. There was nothing that needed to be repaired and all of our appliances were fairly new. We had just bought a new flat-screen TV and gotten new furniture for a majority of the house. Then our house got broken into. It took us a long time to have everything replaced. We decided that we should invest in a home security system to prevent another break in. We found a system we liked by searching online for Atlanta home security. There have been a few more break ins in our neighborhood, and the cops have video of a man robbing a convenience store down the street. I am starting to think we should consider moving. If the economy were not so bad we would be able sell our house and move to a safer area. It probably will be a few years before the housing market bounces back and we can sell our house. For now I guess we will just have to depend on our security system to make us feel safer.