Well its mostly because the area isn't so great. I have a co-worker that lived in the townhomes right next door to where we will be moving into and she said when she lived there, her place was two doors down from the office and her place was broken into twice.

My mom wants me to take a gun course and get licensed to carry a gun, but unfortunatly, I think you have to be 21 to do that, and I'm only just turning 20 in May.

My co-worker says that if we do end up moving there, we should put plexiglass in all of our windows, that way its harder for someone to break in. Having hundreds to thousands of dollars worth of reptiles sitting in that apartment is not good if someone could break in.

But, we can't afford anything more and all three of us really need to get out of our parents' houses. I'm turning 20, my fiance is 18, and our friend is 18. We are all in college and need our own space and need to learn how to live on our own.