Re: Napco

["Russell Brill" <russwbrill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Why? Because most of them don't care, they just want to sell the
> house...it's the buyer's problem later. Some builders are of the mindset;
> oh, you can just add a wireless system later...or that a few doors and a
> motion detector are enough - gee where did that come from? From years of
> the
> biggies creating that illusion by advertising and give-away systems -
> that's
> how. Our industry fucking our own industry.

It's the Bankers and CEO's, not the independents & regional companies...
Lots of people live check-to-check, so financing looks good to them. I take
the time to explain to potential customers the pit falls of the "Low Down"
systems, $99 Down + $32.99 X 36 = $1286.64... What do they get for $1200,
two or three doors and a motion with a control made by Mattel...
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> "Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> |
> | Crash Gordon wrote:
> | > Really. I'm just the opposite!...I'd much rather deal with loyal
> friendly
> | > (and pay on time) homeowners...one on one...mostly custom homes.
> Dumped
> most
> | > of my big commercial stuff, kept only the ones that are also
> homeowners
> of
> | > mine.
> | >
> | >
> | Same thing I did a number of years ago. After years of commercial work
> | that was laborious drudgery, without even a thank you, the residential
> | market has more of a challange as far as installation skills and
> | techniques. I enjoy the level of homes that I do now. Presently doing a
> | $3.5 million 7500 sqft home, on seven acre wooded property with lakes
> | and Grecian gardens that one of my existing clients just bought.  Was a
> | spec house, so it's all closed up already and they want a full system.
> | Great! What a challange to have jobs like that.
> |
> | Don't understand a builder who'd build a house of that caliber with
> | only doors and two motion detectors ..... both placed in the wrong
> | spot. Keypad wire, poking out through the wainscoat panel in a 4 inch
> | space beteen a light switch and the end of the wall. Contact wire for
> | garage entry door is sticking out of the wall 2 feet away from the
> | door. Bedroom key pad wire was brought to the attic but wasn't stapled
> | there, so it was hanging out of neat little hole in the ceiling the
> | drywallers had made for it in the closet. The builder had paid $1200.00
> | to prewire 6 doors, two keypads, two motion detectors, one inside
> | speaker. No fire. One 12 conductor between attic and basement. And all
> | just short drops that have to be spliced to be wired back to the panel.
> | No home runs to a designated main panel area. Told him I would do the
> | same thing for $900.00 with home runs. And I thought that was high. No
> | Cat5. Five TV jacks. Five telephone jacks. Duhhhhh! Unbelieveable!
> |
> | But that's the challange, to take a bad job and make a diamond out of
> | it.
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