Do you want to protect your home? The price of a security camera on Amazon is adequate for some. Spending $30,000 a year to live with 24 hour armed security and a curfew is the only way to go for some people.
Wealthy buyers are increasingly looking for highly sophisticated security systems. The average cost of a home in the sanctuary is between $6.5 million and $7 million, with each individual spending between $30,000 and $70,000 a year on security.
Similar to the set-up seen in the first film of the Purge movie franchise, where wealthy Americans lock themselves in their home with state-of-the-art technology to avoid civil unrest, the community includes a patrol on land and water.
Security is playing an increasing role in the behavior of wealthy buyers according to the co-owner of a Florida company.
Liguori said that even the US postman could not enter the community. All of the security is armed. There are two gates, the main gate and the service gate, and whenever anyone comes in they are ID'd and then they have a picture taken of themselves, their car, and their license plate. Everyone knows who is in and who is out.
He said there was a patrol on the road in a golf cart and on the waterway. They have cameras on the north and south entrances. The person picked up on the camera is the person coming in. There are cameras on the wall.
Each day guests are allowed to stay in the community from 9 a.m. until 4.30 p.m. Most non-residents were not allowed to enter during the height of the restrictions.
The measures reflect a growing trend of worry among America's wealthy.
The US is seeing a rise in crime. Demand for safe rooms has skyrocketed in Los Angeles, while households in Chicago have hired private police. The billionaire owners of superyachts were spending millions of dollars a year to protect themselves.
More than half of Americans were afraid of civil unrest or worried about being robbed, according to a survey conducted by Safe Home.
Ryan McGonagill, director of industry research at Safe Home, said that while Americans were more afraid for their safety in groups, those with the means to do so still wanted to equip their home
It's likely that it's boiled down to two things." He said that they can afford to invest more in home security because of their physical assets.
Liguori was of the opinion that the high level of security was a no-brainer for people who have moved from cities like Chicago and New York.
It is where they are coming from. The upper east side of New York is seeing more crime. You become a target wherever you are. By where you're coming from, you are very aware of it.
He said that a disgruntled employee getting upset avoids a scenario like that. Everyone is taking a more precautionary measure when it comes to security.