Broward County<\/a>, has seen it happen.<\/p>\n“They are taking them in and out in 20 minutes, pulling up with a box truck,” he said.<\/p>\n
One home in Oakland Park had $10,000 worth of appliances stolen.<\/p>\n
Appliances stolen and resold online<\/p>\n
The thieves have stolen ovens, refrigerators, microwaves, and dishwashers.\u00a0 Wiseman thinks they are sold on internet sites.<\/p>\n
The Broward Sheriff’s Office said that besides Oakland Park, two homes in West Park were hit last month.<\/p>\n
“I think technology has made it easy for low-end burglars to go about doing this,” Wiseman said.<\/p>\n
Security tips for homeowners<\/p>\n
Wiseman said burglars frequently break in through back doors and recommends putting a rod in a slider to prevent access. He said surveillance cameras can help too.<\/p>\n
He also said he recommends doing “virtual stagings,” so when the property is listed online, and thieves are searching, it looks like somebody’s home.<\/p>\n
“A lot of houses are flipped, and these houses have new appliances \u2014 sometimes with the tags still on,” he said.<\/p>\n
Deputies urge vigilance<\/p>\n
BSO also recommends sellers lock the property, install a security system, alert neighbors when they aren’t there, and keep the house well-lit.<\/p>\n
If you see suspicious activity, call 911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland Park is alerting residents to be aware of thieves who are targeting empty houses for sale and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[30676,553,143,145,144,29283],"class_list":{"0":"post-71655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-broward-county","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-oakland","11":"tag-oakland-headlines","12":"tag-oakland-news","13":"tag-south-florida"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}