Help vacant unit was broken into!

[Robert Hernandez]

Hello BP family,

I just had a vacant unit broken into by some homeless people. They were in the unit for about a day and saw people in the unit and called the cops. They left before the cops arrived. The damage was low a broken window (on the door) and the smoked cigarette smell. The window that they broken into was in a dark ally on the back.

So I will likely replace the entire door with one without a window. So now the unit (quadplex) will have two doors (no window) and a main front entrance window. I am hoping adding a windowless door gets rid of an entry point and makes it more secure.

What advice do you have from having it broken into again. Just talked to my PM about lowering the rent.

To make it more secure what advice do you have?

What I've done so far:

Install dummy camera at the front, got rid of the door with a window, and turned on the lights to the upstairs and closed all the blinds. I have a for rent sign that I will get rid of, but there is still a lockbox on the door.