Re: Why?

["Jim Rojas" <jrojas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It seems I am the only company in town that will retrofit an alarm system
without a credit anal probe, followed with a 3 year, carved in stone
contract. Real Estate agents have been calling me every other week now.

$500 gets you the basic, 3 opening, 1 motion, 6 zone Ademco POS hardwired
system, I charge $50 per each additional opening afterwards. Two out of
three signup for monitoring, since many insurance companies now require
monitoring to issue a new policy.

It's not free, but at least I get all my costs up front, and it fills in
gaps where techs end up going home real early....sorry guys! :)

Jim Rojas


"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> alarman wrote:
>> "Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:451375b0$0$3570$815e3792@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > It's fun ain't it?!
>> >
>> > I just finished working on a 15K sq ft (under roof) house with a buddy
>> > of
>> > mine, they tried to pull the same crap on us..Do you know anyone would
>> > could
>> > do a house that size with only a 3 day warning and the insulators on
>> > our
>> > tail? No freekin way. Ya know they wouldn't pull this crap on any of
>> > the
>> > other trades! I hate getting the bums rush on jobs.
>> >
>> > Rise up mon! We gotta start walkin on this crap.
>>
>> I wised up a few years ago. Now I don't hesitate to refuse a job if
>> things
>> aren't right. About half the time they acquiesce, the other half they
>> don't.
>> js
>
>
> A number of years ago I did about 150 homes for a builder. It wasn't
> all THAT bad, thinking back. But but I do remember that it's the other
> subcontractors that are the problem in that kind of work. The builder
> was a high quality guy ......  it's just that when the subcontractors
> screwed up "his" work, he had a crew of his men who would fix the
> mistakes. Obviously, I was the only one who could fix, and had to live
> with all the problems the subcontactors made with the low voltage
> wiring. Also it was during the time that the "Free" alarm marketing was
> just taking off and I was doing a basic system for an almost double
> monthly fee. It wasn't immediate income, but it turned out ok
> eventually, considering all the upgrades and follow up work through the
> years since. Still have over 100 of the accounts, after all the fall
> out. I wouldn't do it again though.
>
> But at this point, I only work for the spot custom builders and
> renovators and mostly only for existing customers.  As we all know,
> high end is definitely better. These builders are ( not totally, but at
> least more) cooperative and use better subcontractors than the multi
> home developers do. They usually only have a project or two going at
> the same time and are more conscious about detail because they're
> building from architectual plans for people who have money,  who are
> themselves paying attention to detail and are in daily contact with the
> builder. In that house that I had the insulation problem, I have to
> say, the drywallers didn't bury one wire. And I buzzed it out and no
> wires cut either.
>
> It's always good to get to that point when you can be picky!
>