Your neighbor is your best defense, keep him happy.
Alarms aren't insurance, but there's no reason you shouldn't have a false-free alarm. I owned an installing company for several years, no false alarm problem with properly designed systems. Doesn't mean user error never occured, that's unfortunately common. $300 will buy you an excellent system, $200 will get you most of the hardware you might want. Ebay's a good place to shop. I bought my mother's latest panel there after hers gave out, 20 yrs after I originally installed it.
Making a lot of noise is the most important thing. Not so much to alert your neighbor, but to make the thief nervous. Pay attention to the MO, it's always cautious. When you make your place a lot more trouble than nearby alternatives, you've won.
I live on a mountaintop with a single road up which solves most problems here, but there's also a driveway sensor (no false trips) and a full burglar alarm on the first building (a distance from my house), my well-equipped shop. Alarms are cheap assurance.
MO around here is to drop off the thief to break in and organize the goods (guns, electronics) so that the driver can return for a very quick pickup. Close proximity to the public road is a high risk, making an alarm system well worth the money. Distant neighbors on both sides have had that experience in the past year. I've got a gate at the public road, too long a hike for common thieves.
Yell if you need help determining the system. DIY is simple if you know anything about electricity. There are a few potential problems with hardware that you can easily avoid, particularly with "motion detectors". My shop even got shock sensors on all the walls, to detect any attempt going through them.
My problem was ex-employees coming back, in the middle of the night (gate is usually left open). When I put out the word about what I'd installed, the problem went away. Easier pickings elsewhere.
You are most fortunate with response time, here it's 35 minutes, making central station monitoring almost worthless.
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