RV security

Hope for the best and keep your insurance paid up. There are no guarantees when it comes to storage.

1971duster340 wrote:
Ask the storage owners if you can park close to the next unit and block your door/bay doors. You'll have to pull your RV out if you need to go inside. Nothing will keep a burglar out if they're determined.

What about the owner of the other unit???
We have an extra wide site, as it is on the end of a shed for covered storage. we park a little off center, and can put the slides out while in our site! :B

Every user gets a personal access code, and as mentioned before required to enter, and exit.

I feel the unit is far safer at a good storage lot than at home. If you both work, there is about nine to ten hours a day no one is home, and likely many neighbors are not home. Our storage yard has a maned office 9 to 5 six days a week, video, and on site watch person 24/7.

All of the above posters have it covered correctly...
Location and insurance are your best bets...

Also, there are a ton of various tongue and pin locks available...supposedly to keep someone from towing your rig away.

Start Here......Locks...LINK

We live in a smaller town our trailer is stored in front our house and we lock the doors in the summer, but in the winter it is stored out on a farm in the countryside unlocked, but all items removed. I unlock it because I do not want them to break the locks/doors when it is most remote and not monitored.

Hi,

The facility I use requires me to have my own insurance on the unit. That said, nothing has gone missing in 16 years.

I hear on the news, some homes get broken in to when no one is home, not all. Same with rvs. Take common sense precautions.

It is a **** shoot. If a lowlife wants to rob you, they will no matter where it is. Mine is in my backyard in a fence. But if some one wants in, they will get in. Especially since "Rudy the Camper Guard dog" has gone.
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We have stored various trailers in storage yards for the past 20 years and have never had a problem of any kind.

Ask the storage owners if you can park close to the next unit and block your door/bay doors. You'll have to pull your RV out if you need to go inside. Nothing will keep a burglar out if they're determined.

Location, location, location, and situational awareness. There is little you can do to keep a determined thief from breaking in. Just like a house, you have windows, but you also have mobility. An alarm will only help if someone is around to respond to the alarm. A friends motorhome was stolen from a beach parking lot in Florida while the family was enjoying the ocean...many years ago. An basic alarm might be useful if the storage facility is manned or guarded. If not, why bother with an alarm. Make your coach a harder target than the neighbors (doesn't sound real brotherly, but it typically helps). Shield windows so someone can't see what is inside, lock all windows and doors, put a hitch lock on trailer, empty compartments, so if the compartment is opened there is nothing gained. (most storage compartments use the same key, or a very few variations of the key). Get good insurance.
There will always be bad people willing to damage and steal for personal gain.
In my 40 plus years of Rving I have had the good fortune not to meet any bad people.
Happy Trails.