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What You Can Do With the Money Youll Save by Switching to Alarm Relay

Our UL Listed security system monitoring services start at $8.95 a month. By cutting out the middleman and offering landline, cellular, and internet alarm monitoring directly to our customers—without locking them into long -term contracts—we’re able to offer monitoring solutions at much lower prices compared to many of our competitors. In fact, when people decide to switch to us, there’s one thing that we hear over and over again:

“You guys charge $8.95 a month? I’ve been paying over $30 bucks a month for five years now!”

We’re always sorry to hear that, but what’s even worse is when we hear:

“I’ve been meaning to switch over to you guys for months—I just never got around to it.”

If you’re in the latter category, we’ve worked up a few incentives that just may get you to switch to Alarm Relay sooner.

How to Switch Your Alarm Monitoring Provider

When most people purchase a home or business alarm system, they often have no idea security system monitoring is a separate service. As a result, many alarm system owners sign onto a long-term contract for landline, cellular, or internet alarm monitoring. When they find out other providers offer UL Listed alarm monitoring services, people often assume that switching is a complicated process, and they choose to stick with their current provider for convenience.

We want all alarm system owners to know two things: You can change your monitoring provider; and the process for switching monitoring companies is not that difficult. Here’s a step-by-step guide for changing your alarm monitoring service provider.

The Dangers of Having Only Wired Monitoring Communications

What’s the weakest part of any home alarm system?

Many people would answer it’s the hardware of the system itself: communication errors, faulty sensors, or outdated equipment. But the chances of such hardware failures are low compared to the biggest weakness of all: using only a landline for your security system monitoring communications.

Even if your hardware fails, we can still contact you and help you troubleshoot your system. And in most cases, our UL listed Central Station will contact you immediately to inform you that your device has a hardware issue. But if you’re using our alarm monitoring service solely via a landline, what can you do if your landline goes out?

Answer: nothing. You might not even realize the line is out. If you haven’t given us an alternate form of communication, we can’t contact you. All it takes is a storm to knock down a phone line and your system will go unmonitored. And all an intruder has to do to break into your house is snip your landline. The alarm may go off, but like the proverbial tree in the forest, will anyone be around to hear it?

Four Sobering Reasons to Invest in an Alarm Monitoring Service

It doesn’t matter how well-known you are or how imposing your house is: robberies can happen to anyone. And we mean anyone -- even the rich and famous.

Here are some of the worst burglaries of the rich and famous in recent history.

1. The Infamous “Bling Ring”

If you want to attempt a burglary of a celebrity’s house, you’ve got to be a professional, right? Someone with years and years of thieving experience under their belt. Someone straight out of a real-life Ocean’s 11.

Well, as the now-infamous “Bling Ring” proved, you’d be wrong.

How Alarm Monitoring Service Companies Help Protect Your Home and Your Family

According to the data gathered by the U.S. Department of Justice, there were a total of 2,199 burglaries in American households in 2009. In these unfortunate events, victims not only deal with the loss of their valuable items, they also have to cope with emotional and psychological trauma. To avoid becoming a victim of burglary, the best thing you could do to protect you and your family is equip your home with a security system and find a company that provides24-7 alarm monitoring service.