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I'd suspect a nice cigar stash in there!! Looks like an Aristocrat cabinet/humidor!I’ve contemplated something like this to keep service personnel unaware.
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For the filing cabinets, can you just lock them?
By difficult to break in, you mean more than 1.5 minutes?Big safes aren't really made to be hidden. If you have a big ass safe it better be a good one, fill the bottom with ammo and bolt it to the floor properly. Think of a big safe as a big castle. Really obvious what's inside and really obviously difficult to break in to without making a ton of noise and taking a lot of time.
The buyer hired one smart guy to inspect the house ... or your brother is a camouflage master.My brother had his in a basement. He got wrapping paper with a brick pattern and wrapped it during the open house. It was still on during the home inspection. The guy doing the inspection almost pissed himself, he couldn't figure out why a chimney would be in that spot.
So my gun safe, along with 2 filing cabinets (1 for miscellaneous gun stuff and files, 1 locked fireproof one for ammo and reloading stuff) are in a corner of my basement. Yes, the safe and cabinets are on PT 2x4's and bolted to concrete pad.
The wife and I are considering moving and will be selling this house. Meaning, there may be an open house.
I am thinking the empty cardboard boxes "hollowed" out to form around the lot and taped together as the best means to hide the safe and maybe the file cabinets.
Anyone ever do anything like that or hide their safe in a better manner. Figured I would ask the brain trust. Thanks.
Put a bunch of gun company stickers on it
My experience with buying this current house (and the other houses I looked at) was exactly the opposite, but that was 10 years ago. We roamed all over, no one with us, except maybe others also doing the open house.Left mine out in plain sight. Had a bunch of stickers on it. Right next to the reloading bench with 2 presses on it.
Zero issues selling the house.
R.E. agents don't let people freely roam throughout the house. Even the open houses are 1 couple at a time.
...Even the open houses are 1 couple at a time.
My experience with buying this current house (and the other houses I looked at) was exactly the opposite, but that was 10 years ago. We roamed all over, no one with us, except maybe others also doing the open house.
Maybe during COVID. Every house I was in a few years ago, there were 3-5 other groups checking it out simultaneously. The real estate agents would just hang out in the kitchen or other common room for questions.
Check on all those. But not a karate gi, instead all power lifting, football, hockey, wrestling, and boxing. Never got around to combining all those, lol, got a little too old for mma. Oh and pictures of me in my youth wearing my dress white chockers.Hopefully you have dogs, cameras, motion lights, a fence, no plants near the house, and a security system. Maybe leave a couple of high-scoring bullseye targets around, some boxing gloves. Pictures of you in a karate gi holding a trophee. That way WHEN your open house gets cased the robbers decide to f*** with someone else.
Check on all those. But not a karate gi, instead all power lifting, football, hockey, wrestling, and boxing. Never got around to combining all those, lol, got a little too old for mma. Oh and pictures of me in my youth wearing my dress white chockers.
If I was at an open house I would be more curious about what all the cardboard was hiding ...
Dolph is your favorite too, eh?Hopefully you have dogs, cameras, motion lights, a fence, no plants near the house, and a security system. Maybe leave a couple of high-scoring bullseye targets around, some boxing gloves. Pictures of you in a karate gi holding a trophee. That way WHEN your open house gets cased the robbers decide to f*** with someone else.