1st time tagged by copper thieves. lesson learned?

[Bob T.]

1st time tagged by the copper thieves ( I assume there are more then 1 person).  My biz partner notice back door key was missing last week, but with people come in and out sometimes that happen. The house was 99% done with some touch up/clean up, realtor started some showing too.

I am not here to guess who did it :D  my want to prevent or at least not make it an easy job.

Too bad in Chicago, pex is not an option. Looking at the bright side, at least they shut off the water and left all the tile wall and kitchen undamaged.

it hurt to look at, here is the basement.

I am now on BP forums try to learn what I can do to avoid this. Please add any suggestion you may have. The end goal is to have something so we can leave behind even after the rehab is done.

1) change out locks when key is missing; Kwikset smart key, it can re-key seem to work fine.

2) security system (monitoring or just stand alone)

Camera would be nice.  I plan to keep the system in place until house is sold (or sell as part of the house).

I searched the forums and found some uses Lasershield, their web site show it has camera.   Does camera works well even at night?  is the device easy to remove?

 simplisafe looks okay, it can used with their monitoring service or not, currently no camera support. the price is pretty fair.  anybody use it any pro/con?

3) motion/timer light.