Originally Posted by
Looigi
Opening and closing the garage door can wear out the mechanism. I just had to replace the opener on one of our garage doors after 16 years of daily multiple uses. The replacement cost $140 at Home Depot and took an hour to install. If that is too burdensome, you can always operate the door manually.
So less than $10 a year, probably less than the cost of a video camera system, and certainly less than the cost of a decent bike or your insurance deductible when it is stolen.
I don't leave my garage open. If I'm mowing the lawn, mower comes out, door goes down while I'm working.
It's just giving people a chance to look over your stuff and decide what they like.
And it doesn't matter if it's a gated neighborhood, all those maids, gardeners and pool cleaners are scoping out the whole place and letting their buddies back in the hood know who has good stuff to steal.