Did you know that one in four Americans use some type of security to protect their home?

Although you may not have a security system, you may want to protect your assets in another way. One way to do that is by looking into safe lock technology to protect some of your assets.

However, you have to make sure you are comparing biometric safe prices and home smart safe features before you buy. You also need to look into a home safe size that works for you.

Ready to learn more? Keep reading to learn the safe buying mistakes that you want to avoid!

1. Failing to Do Research on Types of Safes

One of the most common safe buying mistakes when it comes to buying a biometric safe is forgetting to do ample research. If you don't do the right amount of research, you could easily get the wrong type of smart safe or the wrong home safe size.

Obviously, you want to avoid that. 

To avoid this, you want to make sure you are searching for the right safe that keeps your valuables protected, and one you want to buy. To do this, you should look it up on a search engine like Google, read reviews, look at the star ratings, and compare prices to other safes just like the one you are looking at. 

2. Missing the Necessary Home Safe Features 

When you look at a safe, although almost all safes are the same in features, you don't want to assume that the safe automatically has what you need. Make sure to familiarize yourself with the options before you make your purchase because safes are extremely heavy and returning them could be a bit of a pain.

So what should you look for? Although not necessary, we recommend not looking at just traditional safes, and instead looking at smart safes. Smart safes are an entire new ballgame offering much more than the standard safe box. We recommend looking for these great smart safe features that can add to the safety, quality, and durability of the safe that you purchase:

• Remote alarm activation through a remote app to make your safe more secure
• Advanced motion sensing on the safe 
• An accelerometer or tamper sensors
• At least one camera and with Two-way talk on the safe
• More than one interior light to illuminate the safe 
• A vast activity log through the app or locally on the safe

Although you may not need all of these features, they are great features to have in a safe to keep your valuables protected and safe! Having a remote app that can do all of this when you are not even in your home near the safe is great! We found that The Space Safe is the only safe that offers all of these features which is why we love it!

3. Not Looking at the Safe's Quality

One of the most important things that you need to do when you are looking at different safes is to look at the quality. If you are not getting a high-quality safe, this could be detrimental in a lot of different ways.

So what is defined as quality? You want to make sure you are looking at the materials that built the safe to know how durable it really is. That means the thickness of the metal, the type of metal, and the quality of the metal used. Yes that's correct! The thickness factor of the walls of the safe is not the only thing to look for, although generally speaking, the thicker the better!

When you focus on the quality of the safe, you are ensuring that the safe will last a long time especially if there's a physical brute attack on the safe. You need to make sure your safe is of high-quality and is durable. Because unfortunately, with lower quality safes, that is not always the case.

4. Buying the Wrong Kind of Safe

Did you know that there are different kinds of safes out there?

For instance, there are safes that are meant for holding cash and valuables, and there are other types of safes that are specifically meant for storing documents.

This means that if you simply need a safe for documents, you may not need to buy a safe that really protects against burglary, since whoever breaks into that safe won't care to take your documents for the lack of value it would give them. Rather, if you are looking to only store documents, maybe you will only need a safe that is good against fire and water. 

5. Buying a Safe That Doesn't Have the Ability to Lock In

If you want to make sure that your valuables are extra protected, make sure your safe isn't simply loose in your closet, or laying around somewhere else in your home available for all to see. Instead, the safe should be bolted into a wall, the dresser, or another supportive structure. Of course if you get a safe like The Space Safe, then you may not find the need to bolt down your safe since the safe is so heavy and hard to move around, and you also have sensors, notifications, and cameras.  

By securing your safe to a fixed structure, it makes it much more difficult for someone to break in and steal the entire safe out from your home. Some cheap safes weigh around 20lbs and if someone is able to steal that safe, then it will be much easier for them to break into that safe when it's out of your home.

This is why we find it is the most secure to be able to bolt the safe into a structure in your home.

Avoid These Safe Buying Mistakes

Whether you are buying a biometric safe for your own home or for your business, you want to make sure that you are getting the best safe for what your needs are.  Buying the wrong safe will lead to regret and finding yourself buying another safe as a replacement which will put you out much more money than originally planned. 

There are so many types of safes, so it is important to do your research to know which one you want. If you're going to want to protect your valuables and are afraid of theft then we highly recommend buying, The Space Safe. It is the most technologically advanced safe out there with safe lock technology and so much more!

Now, you don't have to worry about the safety of your belongings!