ADT home security systems.
 

Does anyone have an ADT system. If so, are you happy with what you have, and do you think its worth the $40+ bucks a month. I am trying to figure out if I want to go with ADT or have another company come in and take over monitoring. ADT is $42.99 a month and you have to sign a 3 year contract. I can go with another monitoring company that is smaller, but charges $20 per month. If ADT is awesome, I will stay with them, but if they aren't all that great I will go with company B and save the $200 a year.

I've had ADT for more than a decade and I'm very happy.

Does the $42.95 per include ADT's Pulse system? How many sensors and cameras?

The $42.99 includes motion sensors on all access points (doors and windows) and in the hallways, also includes fire protection. I don't have any cameras.

Used in four houses over the years.

Monitoring is not the expensive part. Installation of sensors is the killer.

Beat on them to give you the best deal. Threaten to go elsewhere. It works.

Do you mean to get the $42.99 down?

I have ADT, but I pay under $40 and have no contract. I've had no problems with them. I test the system regularly and they respond quickly.

The discount you receive on your homeowners insurance can offset your cost a little.

How did you manage that?

No Pulse? You might want to check it out to see if it would be good for your home. It allows you to arm and disarm your alarm system from any mobile device or desktop PC, to view cameras remotely and to monitor the status of your system's sensors, whether you're home or away.

I pay $49.99 for the Pulse system.

Could be that my house was already wired up when I bought it. They just updated the sensors and turned it on. Looking at my 2012 budget, I paid 35.99/mo which went up to 37.78/mo in 2013. That was the price they quoted me.

alarmrelay.com

$8.95 month, same UL listed monitoring.

Yeah this system (in the house we just bought) has keypads like a car keypad, but no pulse.

We've had it for 12 years now. No problems. Although it might not be a bad idea to see if we can upgrade our 12 year old system.

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Just be aware that TECHNICALLY they can listen to you through the intercom / keypad. So if you're involved with the mob or a drug Cartell you might not want .

I am cancelling mine. It's a good product I guess. I don't even turn the thing on anymore. In addition their contracted installers in my area are people I don't want anywhere near my house.

I also find older security system cumbersome and difficult to manage. If I want to change something its almost like I have to do the shit binary.

Just buy the yard sign and call it good...

http://popular.ebay.com/misc-a-b/adt-yard-signs.htm

Waste of money IMO.

this is probably the best advice.

That is well covered. The prior home owners put an ADT sticker in every window and three signs in the flower beds. I called the local PD before I bought the house and there have been no robberies in the area in the last 10 years, so they may just have been a touch paranoid.

They keep calling and offering free installation in exchange for putting a sign in the front yard.


not sure what the catch is, but i'm sure there will be

My home was broken into about 20 years ago. The f-ers didn't get much, but it pissed me off. When the police were here they did the usual walk-through but there wasn't much they could do.

About a week later I got a call from the police department and they wanted to talk about home security. Cool! I asked them about the ADT's of the world and the like. They said, "don't waste your money." There's such a long delay between an alarm being tripped and an officer showing up the bad guys will just walk away.

They told me to buy an unmonitored system that is loud. The signs in the yard, the stickers on the door are a big deterrent, and IF they do try to break in they'll be met by flashing lights and a really loud horn.

I know at my place of employment we have a monitored system with cameras, but it also has a siren. Outside of the cameras I know that the siren would be more of a deterrent than anything. I may go this route with the homestead, still mulling it over.

I have a ground level window that goes into the basement. Kick out a pane of glass, flip a lever, slide the window and step down, and you're in my house and I'm asleep two floors above. Horrible design feature that I, as a first-time homebuyer, didn't think about. Only certain units have basements, and the model units didn't. I had already signed my life away before I had my first "holy shit look at that window" moment.

Is it a huge deal where I live? Probably not. But there are some Section 8 apartments filled with Section 8 scumbags in the area, and living in Chicago for as long as I did sort of ruined me when it comes to having trust in my fellow man.

Put a grate over it and either weld it or lock it down.

Yep. Even one of ADT's own commercials shows a guy breaking in, the alarm sounds and he runs off...so I'm wondering what in the hell is the point of the monitoring.

If someone breaks into your house to kill you, the person in the ADT monitoring center isn't going to be of any help.

I do and I'm happy with it, but I think if someone were to be deterred from my house, it'd be because of a loud bark, not an ADT sign.

wonder if there is a way to hook up a horn from a train to go off.
bet that shit would work.

I have an ADT alarm system but it isn't hooked up to a monitoring service. It does have a 130 dB siren, however.

I also have a rather alert and protective dog.

Apparently you don't spend much time perusing the gun thread. :)

True. It would be expensive, but certainly not as expensive as paying ADT $35 a month for 12 years. :banghead:

I would say it would cost 100 bucks at most

More than that, since I'd have to find somebody to do it.

El Jefe, I'll gladly rent you one of my ADT signs for only $30 a month.

We have ADT. I also have a 45 in my nightstand and a12 gauge in my closet. Between the two ADT can **** off.

seriously guys, if you already have the equipment, go trough Alarm Replay for the monitoring. Still a UL listed monitoring center, still get the same insurance discount, etc.

They can help you unlock most equipment.

http://www.alarmrelay.com/


I don't have it for the break-ins so much as I like the monitoring of my smoke alarms for fire. The siren to alert you if someone breaks in while your home is a plus, as there have been more and more home invasions, but I assume that if we're not home and someone breaks in, we aren't slowing anyone down.

Glass break sensor with alarm.

Good point. Ours is hooked into our sprinkler system/smoke alarm. That's worth more to me than the burglar thing.

Your sprinkler system? Why, so you can get the burglars wet as they run away through the yard?

most likely a residential fire sprinkler...

I prefer DOG security over ADT.

Screw that auto-renew contract...


Get Simplisafe

LMAO

Yep:thumb:

:p

Whaaaat? You can do that yourself. Shit all you need do is make it look bomber

Yeah dude...they are going to try and pull that shit with me. Already got them covered.

Maybe they'll get their legs washed while running through them?

What's wrong with auto renew?

What happens when your family and dog are on vacation?

You like to be secretly signed up for another 3 year contract without being asked?

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I always rent a storage unit and take everything out of my house till I get back.