Re: Need Advice For Packaged Home Alarm Purchase

["Mike" <wxyz09@xxxxxxxxx>]

Much thanks for your useful information.  I wouldn't have considered many of
the items you mentiuoned in your post.
I'm starting to feel like an informed consumer.   I attempted to contact a
local installer who installed a wired system,
Solmon's Shield(sp?) for a neighbor, but he sold out to one of the large
security companies.    I then Called Brink's Security
who told me I should buy their motion sensor system with door alarms for
$300.00 + and a $28.xx monthly fee.
My house is a end of group rowhouse with a walk out basement.  I don't
believe the motion sensor is going to cut it.
I believe I need alarms in the basement and on the second floor.

Mike

"Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:qR6Bf.29$H_2.2099@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Initial term of the contract should be something reasonable..2-3 years is
> common...anything  more as an initial term is kinda ridiculous. Most
> contracts auto-renew yearly on the anniversary date of the signing, this
> usually tied to your procedure on canceling monitoring should you decide
> to
> cancel after the initial term...read what the notification time
> is...usually
> 30 days prior. Some states have restricitons on auto-renewal clauses.
>
> What is their policy if you move before the initial term is expired?
>
> Read the fine print. Do you own all of the equipment once you have paid
> them
> for the installation - not completion of the initial term of the contract?
> Make sure what you are buying is not actually a hidden leased system.
>
> Is the equipment proprietary? < Stay away from this, because if you're not
> happy and you cancel and the equipment is proprietary like one big
> alarmco's
> is...you endup throwing it away.
>
> However, all that being said..you are really buying a relationship. Do you
> like the guy? Did you get good recommendations from other people? Do they
> seem like a company you can deal with?
>
> BTW, contacts don't have to be inforced. I let people slide all the
> time...sometimes you have to, sometimes it just the right thing to do (not
> enforce a clause) to keep a client happy. I DO enforce contracts when
> someone hasn't paid me for a zillion months - thats fair I should think
> :-)
>
>
> "Mike" <wxyz09@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:kN3Bf.30561$RK3.11160@xxxxxxxxxxx
> | Is there anything I should look out for in a contract?
> |
> | Mike
> |
> | "Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> | news:LRYAf.84$Xi2.16083@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | > You as the buyer will most likely not be specifying anything in a
> | > contract.
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> | > "Mike" <wxyz09@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> | > news:9NXAf.13300$jd5.8174@xxxxxxxxxxx
> | > | I'm looking for advice for a packaged home alarm system.  Would like
> | > advice
> | > | for vendors, what I need to buy and what to avoid and advice on how
> to
> | > deak
> | > | with vendors, eg what I nned to ask them and specify in a contract.
> | > |
> | > | Thanks
> | > |
> | > | Mike
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