Alarm companies are more crooked than the crooks!

You may be locked into a multi-year monitoring agreement with automatic
renewals!

And if monitoring stops, your system may stop working. Depends on the
security company you have. The good guys will switch it over to a "local"
system for you.

Ask at alt.security.alarms for advice on this. Tell them the name of your
security company. Also read your monitoring contract, especially the small
print and backside. If you notify the security company, keep a copy of your
letter and send it certified mail return receipt requested.

They may want you to pay for the full length of the term of the contract.
Also determine who owns the equipment. You or the security company.


"Mike" wrote in message
My wife is looking for ways to cut some expenses out of our family
budget, and she has suggested that we drop the monitoring of our home
alarm system. She got the idea from a friend of ours who has done the
same at his small business. If his alarm starts going off in the
middle of the night, then it will continue to sound until he shows up
the next morning. I wouldn't say we live in a extremely high-crime
area, but we do live in the suburbs of a city where there is a good
deal of crime. Any of you folks going "unmonitored" out there??

Thanks....

Mike

P.S. Our alarm system consists of sensors on all doors, a motion
detector on the main floor, and a smoke alarm (we have several battery-
operated smoke detectors, too).