This guide is about how to get the most from a domicile that is owned/rented by someone you want to fuck over.
Most important thing (according to Sun Tzu) is to know your target, their habits, desires, schedule, strengths and weaknesses. You should also have a good idea of whats in the house already before you ever step foot in there.
You want to scout the location on foot and look for good getaway locations. One of my favorite escape tactics is to spend a few weeks loosening fence boards so I just vanish into a suburban maze of houses and fences. Why jump a fence when you can just go through it?.
At this point you are gonna have to decide if this will be a vehicle assisted robbery or on foot/bicycle/skateboard. Have backup escape plans, plan for conflict and things like witnesses, neighbors. The last thing you need on a job is a surprise.
I guess what I'm trying to say is INFORMATION IS VERY IMPORTANT.. you can have the biggest guns, lots of people and cloaking technology but that doesn't do much good for a trap house in the middle of the damn street surrounded by residential houses across from a school. This is exactly the scenario I'm currently involved in.
Some word of advice, unless you are a complete psychopath you will have many instincts telling you not to do this, but do not allow opportunity to slip from your hands, if you don't act early and take action then someone else will. You will never find sympathy in this line of work, just enemies. Even if you have a good stick up crew they should not know where you live.. But you should know where they all live.
Before the door gets kicked in you might want to consider these sabotage tactics ; cutting the power, ordering a pizza to the house to see if anyone is there or paying a hooker to "wrong house sorry", poisoning the occupants or setting off an explosive. The idea here is to do something before the robbery has even started which puts you at an advantage/them at a disadvantage.
I personally like the poison route, I stalk my targets for months and hit them multiple times when they have the most to lose.
Most people have guns nowadays which means you will look pretty fucking stupid walking in there with a knife. But I don't have a gun so how do you rob an armed drug dealer with nothing but a knife?. Make him think you have a gun. A lot of things can seem like a gun when a person is scared enough, sleight of hands make them look here instead of over there.
I have seen a guy disarmed without anyone ever firing a shot unless you count the nail gun being fired into a wall a few times which caused the target to drop his weapon and submit.
If you have a car take EVERYTHING, tie everyone up and lock them in the bathroom. TV, electronics, furniture, pretend its like storage wars and you just got a locker, take it all, get some boxes and pretend you are moving, only take valuable stuff, anything with cords, books, computers, electronics, video games, art. If you have the time you should get a big moving truck and empty the place out of all furniture and appliances, then start smashing up the walls with a hammer and yank out the copper.
You should also find any hidden valuables with either of these tactics (guns, jediels, dope, cash, etc) Either tell them to give it all up or be fast and search the entire house quick.
A second method is the solo/quick/do it when nobody is home method which is mostly what I do, takeover style robberies require a lot more planning and resources.
Doing it solo is best when nobody is home, this requires a fair bit of scouting and stealth but it's lots of fun if the person really deserves it. I like it when they never see me coming. If there is a house I'm going to hit I will make a point of walking by it every day, maybe lighting a cigarette and looking around for people.
those are 1st stage scouts, 2nd stage is to stake the place out, this can be very difficult in some areas especially if you are well known.
You must stake the place out to know when it will be empty. Once you acquire this information its time to act.
The Breach {this portion of the guide submitted by JOHN LOCKE}
How to get through any door,window.
Tools: lockpick kit, shimmy/crowbar, screwdriver, blowtorch, lockpicks, hammer(non metal), door knob turning mechanism, mini electric screw gun.
*cutting the power will not do anything for an alarm system*
windows with bars can be unscrewed from the outside sometimes, unless the screws are hinged from the inside which requires you to smash the window quietly with either porcelin or spark plugs. Cutting the window might also be an option.
You should not spend any longer than a few minutes on a window, they are a good point of entry but almost too much work for me.
Doors are easy, the electric ones when fried with a powerful magnet will go into a permanent lock mode which is like a free door shimmy to me. Unless the door is properly reinforced you can use a crowbar (a long one at least 4 feet long) and use the locking bolt and force of the door to destroy the frame of the door itself (this requires a fair amount of force). The only doors I have seen that stand up to this are heavy metal frame commercial doors and people still tried to pry it open.
Most doors can be lock picked if you know what your doing, buy some locks and practice with guides from the net.
Sometimes you can use a blowtorch to melt the internal mechanisms and the handle falls right out of the door and you can just walk in, it helps to pre wear the metal beforehand or coat it with something. And extreme version of this was made famous in Breaking Bad when the main characters used thermite to melt through a heavy metal alarm powered door to a warehouse to steal meth precursors. I've never heard of someone using thermite to break into a dope house before.
The most crude but my favorite way of getting inside any home requires 3 tools, a special device that clamps onto any door knob and allows you to apply unlimited force, a metal shimmy or tool to twist this abomination and finally a hammer to either whack the shimmy with if it needs more force or you can just start hitting the knob until the internal mechanisms smash and it all breaks apart.
I have also heard neodynium magnets can be used to destroy locks but Idk much about this.
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I will add more to this guide later.
some final tips though: ABOUT GETTING THE WRONG HOUSE
its really nobodies fault but your own, clever targets will always meet you in front of a house they want to rob, or any random house that isnt theirs, they will make you believe they live somewhere when they actually live somewhere else.
Or maybe your target was just staying with friends for a short duration… or family.
It happens, sometimes you think its a dope house and you walk in to your target + his wife and kids.
Just tie everyone up and pretend its the right house, it's the only way.
