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saltydog wrote:Most of the people that our family knows don't have much portable wealth just laying around. Maybe a computer, a TV, and a set of dinged up golf clubs. Portable wealth is in a 401k, gun safe, or safety deposit box.

A computer, maybe a laptop, DVD player, guitar, Playstation, Wii, whatever, is still a lot more than they can expect from a street robbery or car smash-and-grab. With most people using debit cards these days, $50-100 would be a pretty good haul for jumping somebody on the street, and potentially armed victims are less likely to be caught off-guard on the street than in their own homes. Add to that the popularity of hitting college apartments, (most college students are unarmed, usually have all of the above, and haven't bothered to write down the serial numbers) and it's a pretty easy choice.

AndyC wrote:Apart from the frame, armor the bottom edge of your doors. I'm a skinny guy and have easily kicked in doors by a backwards kick to the bottom edge - the leverage is enormous and usually blows the lock right out.

If you can't manage that, there are some bar-and-socket type products available that vastly exceed the strength of even good residential deadbolts, and since they transfer most of the force to the floor, the frame should take a lot less beating as well.