Why Your Gated Community May Not Be the Bastion of Safety You Think It Is

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Conversation overheard today in Starbucks:

Man on cell phone: “blah blah, yes the car is still available. Yep, that’s the correct address. The gate code is 4375 pound sign. OK, see you then.”

Man’s apparent wife: “You just gave a complete stranger the gate access code.”

Man: “So. Everyone from the pizza guy to the florist to all the friends of the insane teenager next door has it. Hell, 90% of the traffic in the neighborhood just follow someone else in.”

Apparent wife: “Yeah, that’s all true.”

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Jay Thompson

I'm a real estate broker in Phoenix, Arizona and the publisher of the Phoenix Real Estate Guy blog. I tend to drive too fast and scream at the University of Texas and Denver Broncos football teams. My two kids are smarter than most adults I know and my wife is simply amazing.

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I was seriously thinking of looking up some of them newspaper websites, but am glad I came here instead. Although glad is not quite the right word… let me just say I needed this after the incessant chatter in the media, and am grateful to you for articulating something many of us are feeling - even from distant shores.

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I wonder how such firms would not put enough precautions in safety! Isn't human lives worth much to them?

Funny sometimes in our MLS an agent will say, gate code not available just follow someone in to show the house. Gated communities definatly do not afford any more safety than any other community.

There was a drive about 3 years ago to gate our neighborhood which was voted down. Besides the cost, the argument was that it's a false sense of security. You helped prove that point.

In my gated community it seems the same way anyone who wants in "can" get in through a number of different ways most typically following another person right through the gate.

Why does that conversation sound so familiar? What a knack you have of picking up very ordinary things and getting one to think!

I was seriously thinking of looking up some of them newspaper websites, but am glad I came here instead. Although glad is not quite the right wordu00e2u0080u00a6 let me just say I needed this after the incessant chatter in the media, and am grateful to you for articulating something many of us are feeling - even from distant shores.

Secure Canadian pharmacies

This is such a great resource that you are providing and you give it away for free. I love seeing websites that understand the value of providing a quality resource for free. Itu00e2u0080u0099s the old what goes around comes around routine. Did you acquired lots of links and I see lots of trackbacks? <a>Wedding Hairstyles 2009

I wonder how such firms would not put enough precautions in safety! Isn't human lives worth much to them?

Funny sometimes in our MLS an agent will say, gate code not available just follow someone in to show the house. Gated communities definatly do not afford any more safety than any other community.

There was a drive about 3 years ago to gate our neighborhood which was voted down. Besides the cost, the argument was that it's a false sense of security. You helped prove that point.

In my gated community it seems the same way anyone who wants in "can" get in through a number of different ways most typically following another person right through the gate.

Why does that conversation sound so familiar? What a knack you have of picking up very ordinary things and getting one to think!

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