Published · sourced · in one place

The people who study break-ins keep publishing what works. Nobody puts it in one place. So I did — with the source next to every line.

Months of pulling together what police departments, federal statisticians and researchers already published, and checking every line of it.

  • Outside the door — where your house is judged the easy one, or skipped.
  • Once someone is inside — the minutes before help comes.
  • Renting or in an apartment — reversible, nothing that leaves a mark.
 

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“Every line in here says where it came from. You are not asked to take my word for it — you are asked to check the source.”

Wade Barlow

Three field manuals · one record

— Volume I —
The House
He Walks Past
Exterior
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Collection only
— Volume III —
Nothing
You Can’t Undo
Rentals
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— Volume II —
The Minutes
That Matter
Interior
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How you get picked

Nobody is studying your house.

Most people picture someone studying their house for weeks. That is not what the research found.

When 422 convicted burglars were asked, only 12% said they typically planned it. 41% said it was usually spur of the moment.

Which is worse, in a way. Nobody is studying you. Somebody is walking past, looking at your house and your neighbor’s, and deciding in a few seconds which one is easier. Almost everything that decides it is visible from the street.

What the record says

The numbers, and where each one is from.

That is the whole argument. You are not up against a professional. You are up against somebody impulsive, carrying a screwdriver, choosing between your house and the one next door.

Before you buy anything

One full item — free, no email.

The shape every item in the book takes.

1 · The counterintuitive claim

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2 · The part written down nowhere

Admit the obvious part, then give the rare detail.

3 · Go and look — numbered steps

Physical, today, with a tool you already own.

4 · The honest limit

What it does not fix, and when to pay someone. Every item carries this.

5 · The source, right here

Named next to the item, not in a bibliography. This is the whole difference.

This week

One task, on the door you use.

Read the free sample

Written out in full, with what to do if you find one.

Where the money goes

Most of it gets spent in the wrong order.

Camera before the door

Footage of the break-in you could have stopped at the door frame, for less than the camera cost.

A contract before a screw

A monthly bill before the one-time fix that costs less than lunch, and outlasts the subscription.

A gadget before the habit

The thing you buy instead of the thing you do every night for nothing.

Choose your level

One book, or all three.

Every volume stands on its own. Instant download, nothing that expires.

Volume I · Exterior

The House He Walks Past

What the street can read about your house.

  • How you get picked — the walk he takes
  • The five-minute hardware pass
  • Light, noise and routine, from the curb
  • The order I’d do it in
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The Walk-Around Handbook

Every volume, plus the printables. The rental / apartment volume is only in here.

  • Volume I — The House He Walks Past
  • Volume II — The Minutes That Matter
  • Volume III — Nothing You Can’t Undo Collection only
  • The printable cards — dated, re-issued free
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Volume III isn’t sold on its own — that’s what makes the collection a different product, not a discount.

Volume II · Interior

The Minutes That Matter

What you do once someone is already inside.

  • The gap: minutes, not seconds
  • Choosing the room, and testing it at night
  • The word, the signal, the call
  • What to say — in full
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Who wrote this

The same work as the channel — organized, printed, sourced.

“It bothers me watching people pay thousands for systems a burglar ignores, while the four-dollar fix that actually stops him sits unmentioned at the hardware store.”

Wade Barlow

Wade Barlow, 66. He runs a channel about how houses actually get broken into and what the record shows keeps people out. He spends his days in a small workshop, fixing things.

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3.7M
Burglaries a year
27.6%
Someone was home
1 in 8
Actually picked a lock

What’s inside

Three manuals. Everything countable, numbered, and sourced.

Every item is one thing you can do, in one place in your house, with the source it came from printed next to it.

— Vol I —
The House He Walks Past
Exterior
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Volume I · Exterior

The House He Walks Past

Everything outside your front door — starting at the curb, because that’s where he starts.

  • What actually deterred 422 convicted burglars
  • The curb test — read your own house back
  • Light, noise and the quiet route
  • The five-minute hardware pass
  • The jamb that already failed once
  • The deadbolt that only looks locked
  • How to ask one neighbor, in words that work
  • Tonight, this week, the first Saturday

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— Vol II —
The Minutes That Matter
Interior
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Volume II · Interior

The Minutes That Matter

What happens once somebody is already inside — and why a camera and an alarm do nothing about it.

  • The two-minute call that tells you your real response time
  • Central room, two ways out, no street-facing window
  • The light-leak check, done from the street
  • Solid core, long screws, hinges on the inside
  • The stand-down word almost everybody skips
  • The kit that lives in the room
  • Drills that don’t frighten a child
  • What you actually say on the call

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— Vol III —
Nothing You Can’t Undo
Rentals
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Volume III · Rentals · collection only

Nothing You Can’t Undo

For apartments and rentals. Everything reversible, nothing that leaves a mark, everything comes with you when you move.

  • The reversible test — sorts every idea you’ll have
  • What you can do without asking anyone
  • The hallway version of the curb test
  • The portable brace — no screws, no holes
  • Why the door chain isn’t a security device
  • Who has a key to your unit right now
  • Package rooms, laundry, the way out
  • A written request a building has to answer

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Nothing in here expires

The one page with prices on it.

There are no prices printed inside the books. A price printed in a book is wrong within two years, and I’m not selling you something that expires — so prices live on a short, dated list, and I re-send it free when they move. That list is the only reason to leave an email. PENDING · o que é exatamente a folha grátis — Mayk

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Where every line comes from

You are not asked to take my word for it.

Police departments across the country publish burglary-prevention guidance. Federal statisticians publish who gets burglarized, how they got in, and who was home. Researchers have gone into prisons and asked convicted burglars how they picked a house. All of it is public. Almost none of it is in one place, and nearly nobody prints the source next to the advice.

That is what this book is. Every item says where it came from, right next to the item — not in a bibliography at the back that nobody reads. If you want to check one, you can. I would rather you did.

What this book does not do. It does not promise you will never be burglarized. It does not teach anyone how to get into a house. And there is not one item in it I could not point you to a source for.

60

Sixty days. Zero risk.

Read all three, run the two free checks, and if it isn’t what I said it was, write to me and I’ll refund you.

No form. No questions. And you keep the printables.

Last call

It all sits on top of a door.

Without themYou buy the camera, then the doorbell, then the yard sign — and the door all of it points at has a fault nobody ever looked for.
With themNinety seconds tonight tells you whether you need a screwdriver or a phone call. Then a Saturday. Then one thing a week, until it feels automatic.
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Questions from the porch

Honest answers.

Where does this information come from?

Published prevention guidance from police departments, federal victimization data, and academic research with convicted burglars. Every item names its source on the same page as the item. None of it is my opinion about what probably works, and none of it is a number I made up.

Is this AI?

You do not have to take my word for anything in here. Every item has a source printed next to it, and every source is public. Check the ones you care about — that is what they are there for. PENDING · resposta final do Mayk (maior objeção do nicho). Acima é a parte verdadeira em qualquer cenário.

Is this about guns?

No. There is not a firearm anywhere in the three books. Every item is about the house: the door, the window, the yard, and what the record shows keeps people out.

Does it tell me what I can do to an intruder?

No, and it never will. What you are allowed to do varies by state, by city, and by the circumstances of the night, so the book does not guess. For that, ask a local attorney or your county sheriff. Every plan in the book ends the same way: get to a room, call for help, in that order.

Doesn’t this teach burglars how to get in?

There is nothing in this book about how to get into a house — not one lock, not one window, not one technique, including the “so you know how they do it” version, which is the same thing wearing a different hat. Every item is written from the side of the person protecting the house.

I rent, or I live in an apartment.

A good part of it works anyway, because a good part of it is habit and what is visible from outside your door — neither needs a landlord’s permission. Some of it does need to be screwed into something you own, and the book says which items those are instead of pretending otherwise. Volume III is written for exactly this.

I already have an alarm and cameras.

Then you are ahead of most people, and the research agrees: about 60% of the burglars surveyed said an alarm would send them somewhere else. The gap this book fills is the rest — the doors and windows that were simply open, the screwdriver, the decision made from the sidewalk in a few seconds. Equipment nobody uses properly loses to habits that cost nothing.

What if I’ve already done most of this?

Do the two free checks above first. If both come back clean, you are further along than most, and the guarantee covers the rest. If one does not, that is your answer.

Isn’t this all just common sense?

Some of it is. Common sense that nobody actually does is worth writing down. And some of it is not: most people would guess a burglar picks locks, and the number is 1 in 8.

Is it digital or in print?

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Will this go out of date?

Doors and the people who test them do not change quickly, and every source is dated, so you can always go back and check it still holds. The prices are the only thing that moves, and those live on the free list, not inside the book.

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