License? I ain't got to show you no stinkin' license. Was: Monitronics monitoring assigned to Apex

[Nick Lawrence <nlaw@xxxxxxx>]

Apex Alarm / Monitronics:

"Apex Alarm LLC" of Orem Utah is a Monitronics Authorized Dealer. Apex
Alarm LLC sells/installs Ademco Lynx systems during the summer months
May-August. It routinely assigns its 36 month @ $~40.00/mo subscriber
monitoring agreements to Monitronics International Inc of Dallas TX,
which pays, we are informed, around $1,400 for each one.

When hearing that Monitronics re-assigned one of those agreements back
to Apex Alarm LLC, I am thinking that it could be due to the
unenforcibility of the agreement.

This could be due to the fact that Apex Alarm LLC, in Calif at least, is
unlicensed (no burglar alarm license; and no fire alarm license), a
condition the Calif Dept of Consumer Affairs and the Calif Contractors
State License Board are investigating. Monitronics is aware of this
no-license problem, too.

Also Apex Alarm LLC is not registered with the Calif Sec of State, a
requirement for doing business in Calif.

Further, Apex Alarm LLC has been Sanctioned in Virginia for alarm
license violations, and just recently cited in Utah for other license
problems.

One wonders how that re-assigned system will actually be monitored.

Or perhaps it was due to the fact that an ADT system may have been
replaced by Apex Alarm LLC (as opposed to an entirely new system
installation), and because Monitronics apparently does not want to pay
for takeover accounts.

Our reading of Calif law is that alarm monitoring agreements obtained by
unlicensed alarm dealers are unenforcible in court (one wonders if the
limitation of liability provisions are enforceable either). We believe
that Monitronics may have acquired over 10,000 such California
agreements from Apex Alarm LLC. Monitronics is aware of these problems
as well.

Let's do the math: 10,000 x $1,400 = a significant number.




Norm Mugford wrote:

 > James......ADT did the same thing in this area a couple of years ago.
 > When the client calls, they try to get them to switch monitoring.
 > That in itself could violate your contract and cause harm to the
 > end user. Should be reported to the State agency that governs
 > alarms, etc.
 >
 > Norm Mugford