“I have a heavy duty BuddyBar under my front door knob to reinforce the door so it can’t be kicked open. It would take a lot of kicking to defeat that bar.”
Angle iron bolted into the door frame also works. Drop in a two by four and you’re protected from the barbarians. Statistics say that if a bad guy can’t get thru a door in less than a minute, he leaves. And no, I don’t know where that statistic came from.
I don't care where you got that, I like it. I know it would take a lot more time than that to defeat my door. I live in a townhouse and there are plenty of houses around me and I doubt any of them have re-enforced doors. I would hear him if he kicked my door a few times and I'd call the cops so they could get him at the next townhouse if he tried that again in here.
If it was the middle of the night, he would be on foot since he couldn't get past our gate with a car. He would have to climb a fence to get in here. So, I think he would go to, in the first place, to houses around these townhouses that don't have a gate. Why come in here when it's easy picking for large homes here.