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After months or years of planning and preparation, you are finally getting ready to say, "I do" to your beloved and a little time off. While you are understandably excited about your upcoming getaway, it is important to take some home precautions while you are away.

In order to be sure that your home is not broken into while you are gone, heed the following advice:

Stay quiet on social media. Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have become virtual travel itineraries for many people; log on at any time and you can see where many of your friends are currently on vacation, and how long they plan to be gone.

There's good news and bad news when it comes to home security. According to the FBI, in 2017 (the most recent data available) there were a whopping 7,694,086 property crime offenses in the nation. That number may sound staggering, however, it actually shows a 2.8 percent decrease when compared to the previous year. Although we can take comfort in the steadily declining crime rates, we still need to secure our homes so we don’t end up a statistic.