What Are The Advantages Of Using Local Alarm Monitoring Atlanta For My Home Security System?
Educating people on the advantages of local alarm monitoring in Atlanta GA
Well should I Use A Local Alarm Monitoring Facility in the greater Atlanta?
Believe it or not…It depends on whose opinion you listen to.
For example if you talk to one of the major national alarm monitoring companies like ADT or Brinks…they will sell you on the advantages of NATIONAL monitoring.
On the other hand if you talk to one of the local Security companies, they will tell you about the benefits of local monitoring.
In fact, one local security company uses this very question as their marketing angle. In a recent radio commercial the security alarm company stated that before you decide to monitor your system with an alarm monitoring company…make sure they own their own local monitoring facility instead of subbing it out to someone in another part of the country.
So then here is the $64,000.00 question:
“Who should you believe?”
The answer is not as simple as it may seem.
Upon closer examination you can see there are distinct advantages and disadvantages to each type of monitoring.
Doesn’t it make sense to take the time to understand the facts before making a decision that is right for you.
What Are The Advantages Of Using A Local Alarm Monitoring in Atlanta
* Support a local businesses instead of an out of state enterprise
* Personally visit the monitoring facility & ask to take a tour
* Talk to a live person instead of a barrage of voice mail phone attendants
* You do not have to sign a long term contract
* Month to month monitoring…
* Monitoring rates under $20 bucks a month
What Are The Disadvantages Of Local Alarm Monitoring in Atlanta?
* Is it a U.L listed Monitoring Station ?
* Does the local facility have the resources to spend millions of dollars on monitoring equipment that the national big boys do?
* How many telephone roll over lines does the local station have? Please understand that your security system sends out only a pulse signal and will not redial if it doesn’t connect. So what in an emergency when they are suddenly over run with calls? Will they have a sufficient number of roll over lines…so that your pulse signal is sent to the alarm facility?
* What happens when weather conditions knock out electricity and phone lines to local monitoring companies?
I told you it wasn’t as simple as some alarm companies make it seem. As you can see there are advantages and disadvantages to local alarm monitoring.
That’s why I do not push one over the other. I always recommend a Atlanta security alarm company that can offer both local & national security system monitoring.
Feel free to contact us so we can find out which seems to make sense for your personal situation
In our next installment we will look at the advantages & disadvantages of national alarm system monitoring for your Atlanta home or business.