Free Systems end up with many more hidden costs and often the monthly monitoring is sold to yet another company and they will refuse to honor any warranties you may have had with the installer. If you try to cancel your contract many times they will charge you over $2500 to get out of it. Read the fine print. We believe in a bit different approach when it comes to customer service. If we are providing you with a good service we hope you stay with us and if we are not then we encourage you to change companies and we will even give you other companies names and numbers to call that we trust.
Typically monitoring will run about $30 per month which is one dollar a day. If you want to wrap the equipment and installation into the price then you will end up paying more. Just divide it and see how much you will end up paying because you will either pay now or pay later. If the company charges you $45 for the next 5 years then it is simple to figure 60 payments at $45 is $2,700 so that is what you will end up paying. If it is $42 per month then it works out to $2,520. The free systems you buy normally include a panel, battery, siren, one motion and 2 door contacts and adding additional equipment can be quite expensive if the panel will even allow expansion which you need to find out before making the purchase. If you pay $99 for installation and then you pay the monthly monitoring fee you will be able to see how much you are really paying for the system. Typically keypads cost just over $100 or $140 each and the panels normally cost from $200 to $400 each depending on the features, the devices normally cost from $45 to $150 depending on what it is. Our labor is $77 per hour but many of these companies end up charging more than that for additional equipment and labor.
Do some research on the security systems that you are looking at. Bosch has several levels of security systems so you can still have the 3 year warranty and decide on your level of protection. Security Systems in Utah and Salt Lake City should be installed by a reliable company and monitored by an honest company.
Call Larry Love at PEAK ALARM for a no cost consultation (801) 898 6003 www.PeakAlarm.com
