"If a family member dies, leave someone to house sit the house the deceased lived in.
Years ago a bunch of thieves would look at the funerals section and they would go burglarize houses of the deceased, knowing full well that the whole family was away, down to the exact hour the funerals started."
some urban legends you have lined up here but from personal experience i can say you want either cash or jewelery, everything else is to hard to take away or cant be sold and 90% of the Jewelery is fake too.
this changes of course if you are a crackhead fiending the next shot.