Because you're living with lots of other people, there are plenty of opportunities for other residents' home security choices to negatively affect you. Though you may feel very safe in your apartment building, is it a false sense of security. Once you get comfortable, it's easy to let your guard down, treating the whole building as a safe place when you are only in control of your own apartment.

Stay alert in com areas and pay extra attention to people you don't recognize. Those who have lived in the same apartment building for years become very comfortable with their surroundings.

Here are some of the home security slip ups you may be making as an apartment resident. Other residents may be letting people they don't know inside the building, or they could have dangerous intentions themselves. No matter how long you've lived there, the building is still shared space, and you have no idea who could be inside or what their intentions may be.

Treating the com areas of the building as afe' areas where you can relax.