Applying technology + safety/security visits makes your home safer than either method alone, so experts recommend a layered approach for home safety/security by installing a reliable electronic security system, schedule regular home safety and security visits.
Electronics can fail, cameras can go offline, and alarms can trigger false positives, so human check acts as extra security that fills in gaps when technology fails.
Why choose Peace Love Paws for your home safety/security visits while you are away:
1. Human Presence Deters Crime More Effectively
An electronic system can alert you to a break-in, but it does not prevent someone from entering your home.
Peace Love Paws will create a visible sign of occupancy by making it appear someone is home, which significantly reduces the chance burglars target your property. Criminals often target homes that look empty. Our visits send a message that the home isn’t abandoned.
2. Comprehensive Visual Inspections
Electronic systems can only monitor when doors and windows are being opened, motion inside certain zones, record or live-feed with cameras, but they do not inspect everything physically.
Peace Love Paws vacation safety/security visits will notice issues those sensors can miss (roof leaks, broken fence, strange vehicles), spot early signs of problems like mold, pests, or small water leaks before they become big issues and verify that all doors, gates, and outbuildings actually locked and secured.
3. Specific Safety Check of Critical Systems
Electronic alerts don’t always tell you why something happened, or if the home and property is truly safe.
Peace Love Paws can physically check systems that electronics cannot, such as, ensuring your HVAC is operating, detecting flooding, plumbing issues, or power outages, making sure appliances aren’t malfunctioning or checking that crawl spaces or basements are dry.
4. Emergency Response on the Spot
With an alarm system, you might receive a notification, and then you have to
contact emergency services while you are away, then wait until you get home for their arrival not having your home in the condition it was in when you left it after you return.
With scheduled home safety/security visits with Peace Love Paws, you will travel stress free by hiring a trained professional who could call first responders immediately, assess whether it is a false alarm or real emergency and will contact you with reliable information to speed up the process with your insurance company or a contractor.
5. Personalized Visits With Your Choice Of Flexible Service Frequency
Peace Love Paws has an itemized list of all items checked during a visit, and will add your personalized items for your visits.
We take in mail and packages, water interior and exterior plants.
Follow custom instructions, like check thermostat and/or systems you request.
Communicate directly to you and the service providers you prefer then set up appointments need to repair/fix failed systems.
About Peace Love Paws Pet Sitters of Columbia MO-
Visits performed by retired home inspectors who knows home systems and property care
Bonded and Fully Insured
Provide text and photo updates each visit
Offer customizable checklists for all visits
5 Star Google Reviews
Home safety/security with less stress while you are away-
While Columbia is generally a safe community, vacant homes can lead to more break-ins in residential areas, opportunistic burglaries when houses appear empty, less neighborhood watch activity, so live safety/ security visits help maintain normal activity around the home and reassures neighbors too.
If you are a Columbia MO resident and need home safety/security visits while you are away, visit our services section on this website or call 573-818-8485 to sign up for a complimentary meet and greet to get on our 2026 schedule.