Originally Posted by Seaver

Home Invasion

By far the easiest, all it takes is patience or daring.

If one is patient just sit in a car (or take a walk) and take note of anyone who seems to be packing, or who clearly dont have kids (mid-20s adults going to work or elderly). If it's a house nice enough to make you believe it has an alarm system just go around back and hit the large electrical breaker. Almost none of the systems have battery backups, so you run the risk but not much of one. Dont sneak around when you're loading up the items into your pickup/van, if anyone approaches just state you're their nephew/cousin/friend/etc. Makes it easier if you make a friendly approach to anyone looking at you weird. I've even heard of people making a fake metallic repo-man sign on their van.

Daring is just that, they wait for them to leave to dinner and go straight for where you expect the jewelery to be. You'd be amazed how few people lock their doors, or have a window within arms reach of the doornob. With a small pillow they can break the window fairly silently. If you have a back door with a large window near the doornob, get rid of it.