When you have a home business, you are in some ways doubling your risk and the price you will pay if someone breaks in.  Because your home and your business share space, you will lose not only your personal valuables, but those associated with your business — equipment as well as irreplaceable financial data and customer information.

Home security systems are important even for people without home businesses, but having one makes it doubly important.  And because investing in an ADT home security system protects your business as well as your home, you can write off a percentage of it as a business expense IF you are also claiming the home office deduction.

And don’t think that you’re not at risk because of the neighborhood you live in.  Crime statistics show that homes can still get burglarized even when the neighborhood has low crime in general.  Thieves don’t have to live somewhere in order to commit crimes there — and in fact, in the case of burglaries they probably don’t.  So even if you live in the best neighborhood in Washington, I’d still recommend looking into ADT in Seattle.

Your business is your livelihood — why wouldn’t you protect it?

Technorati Tags: ADT home security system, ADT in Seattle, home office deduction