Do You Need a Safe or A Lockbox?

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Do You Need a Safe or A Lockbox?
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• While both a safe and a lockbox can help keep
  your belongings protected from theft, they offer
  very different levels of security. To find out
  whether a lockbox will give you enough protection
  for the items you want to store in it, or whether
  a high security safe would better suit your
  needs, weve compiled a short guide to both
• What is a lockbox and what protection does it
  offer?
• Technically, a lockbox is a type of safe, but
  there are too many differences between the two to
  make choosing a lockbox over a safe, a simple
  choice.

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• Lockboxes come in two varieties standard and
  personal protection, and both are typically small
  and easy to access. A standard lockbox will suit
  you if you have something of relatively low
  importance to protect, and you need to access it
  frequently. For example, if youre having a yard
  sale and you want to keep some cash locked away
  in something that will be close enough and easy
  enough for you to get to when you need to, a
  lockbox will probably suffice.
• Personal protection boxes usually refer to an
  item used to store guns in.

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• What makes a safe different to a lockbox?
• Safes come in a variety of sizes and offer
  varying levels of protection for valuable,
  important, or sentimental items, such as jewelry
  and documents. Most come with an electronic or
  combination lock, and some can be installed into
  a wall or the floor for added security. Choose
  from regular high security residential and
  commercial safes to ones with fire ratings, that
  will protect their contents for a certain amount
  of time when exposed to high temperatures, such
  as you might experience during a fire.

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• Safes are far more difficult to infiltrate than a
  lockbox, and due to their weight, are much harder
  for a thief to simply pick up and carry away.
• Do you need a lockbox or a safe?
• While a lockbox may be perfectly adequate for
  storing small amounts of cash in on a temporary
  basis, the level of protection it offers can in
  no way be compared to that of a safe.

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• Residential safes are ideal for storing valuable
  or sentimental items such as jewelry in,
  especially as thieves will often target such
  items as theyre easy to grab when theyre in a
  hurry and can easily be sold or pawned. If you
  have a lot of jewelry to protect or have a couple
  of items of particularly high value, then you
  should consider purchasing a jewelry safe, which
  will have compartments and drawers inside to
  store the items neatly.
• High security safes with a fire rating (meaning
  that they protect the contents of the safe from
  damage during a fire for a certain period often
  up to 2 hours) are best for protecting items of
  high value both at home or in an office or
  commercial premises, since they give you the most
  peace of mind, and will challenge even the most
  determine and well equipped of intruders.

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• To invest in a high security safe to protect your
  items of value, drop in to your local safe
  showroom today, or call up a local safe expert to
  discuss your options in more detail.
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