Walk around your house and check your front door. Probably a solid deadbolt, a good strike plate, maybe a video doorbell and an alarm contact sensor. Now walk to the garage. What do you see? If your home is like most, you’ve got a garage door from the 90s, an opener you haven’t thought about since you moved in, windows with nothing covering them, a bunch of tools lined up visible from outside, and an interior door into your house that’s probably hollow-core with a basic knob lock and no deadbolt. That’s the path of least resistance into your home, and it’s the one most homeowners never think about. Burglars think about it constantly. So do insurance adjusters, which is why garages show up in residential claim reports far more than the front door does. Professional security providers like Lock and Tech get called out to assess garages specifically because…
