[Celticwarrior]

If you are staying there, I'd invest in a good gun safe that you can bolt down first off. Next, I'd nail or bolt that window shut and keep a hammer by it in case I needed to break it out in a fire. Lastly, get good solid deadbolts on the door for when you leave, then buy yourself a solid 2x4 that you can notch and wedge under the door handle, and another that you can slip into u-bolts or big solid brackets that you can attach to plates of wood and then nail into the doorframe for when you are at home. I would also see what Radio Shack has for inexpensive entry alarms and screamers/buzzers. Alpinezone's suggestions like the peephole are also great. Anything and everything you can do is just one more hoop you are making the crooks go through to get your stuff. It is easier to go elsewhere for better pickings. Crackheads generally don't want complex and difficult, they want easy and fast.

I agree though. If you have been broken into a couple of times by people looking to steal your stuff, esp. guns, it's time to look at new living arrangements. LPM makes a good point. In this hard economy, there are a lot more people with a "spare room" that will be happy to get an EMPLOYED tenant to rent from them at a reasonable rate. Flats and studio apartments, "mother-in-law" garage dormer rooms, and even just a spare back room with kitchen and bathroom privileges would be better than what you have now. As long as the rents are reasonable and you have the right to secure your room against entry by the landlord or other tenants, I say look around and get into somewhere else before it's too late. That place sounds like 40 miles of bad road to me.