Today, we’re talking about old-fashioned, burglar alarms or perimeter security alarms. Are they a good way to secure your home? Not so great, let’s find out the burglar alarm system. You got your keypad you’re, arming and disarming when you’re, leaving or you’re arming a different way.
When you’re sleeping you got your window and door contacts, you got your glass broken. You got a loud siren if somebody breaks in. Is that a good way to secure your home? My personal belief? No, it is not so great anyway.
Why is that? Well, as a security guy and a guy, that’s been catching crooks for 20 years. In that time, I’ve had the chance to talk to these criminals and interact with them, and sometimes they’re, not bad people.
Sometimes they’ll chat with you and give you information, and I ask questions, and they will all tell you that they do not worry about burglar alarms, anymore back in the day they were a little preventative.
Do you know if a burglar alarm saw the sign in your yard? They have a security system or knew you had one somehow they’d go to the next house nowadays, not so much normally, they think you just bought the sign in your yard and put it there and don’t even actually have a system.
But even if you do have one they know they can be in and out with your stuff before the police even leave the parking lot. So why is that a problem? It’s a problem because that’s a reactive way to secure your home when you want to be proactive.
People ask me all the time. Why don’t you sell more security systems? Why don’t you have a monitoring service every month or somebody that can call and monitor your home and call the police for you? That’s because i don’t believe in them.
I just don’t believe in those systems. I think they’re outdated. I think they’re on their way out. Why do I think that I think cameras are eventually going to replace all those features plus having the addition of the actual video plus having features like two-way audio, different alerts, so why that’s different is you’re getting alerted before somebody actually comes in your house? My biggest problem with a security system or a burglar alarm is the person’s already in there they’re already in your house, it’s time to throw down it’s time to call the police time to get the dog time to street justice.
I don’t recommend street justice, but it’s time to take action because they’re in your house, I don’t like that. I’d rather be proactive, so the camera system. That’s why I concentrate on camera systems.
Can you have these alerts? You can you’ve got facial recognition. They’ll tell you when somebody’s in your yard, you’ve got an alert when somebody’s at your door with video doorbells you’ve got all these different things that can tell you that something’s happening before the person gets to your house.
So with two-way audio. You can yell at him and tell him you’ve got the shotgun you’ve got the dog. You’ve called the police. Even if you don’t, you can scare him into thinking so and scare them away. A burglar alarm doesn’t do that.
They’re in your house, you’ve got to figure out what to do but they’re in there. So the only benefit to it really is that if you’re home sleeping yeah, it’s going to make a loud siren and wake you up, but that’s really the only probe.
In my eyes, you’ve got too many other cons, so number one. It’s reactive. Instead of proactive number two, it costs you a monthly fee and that’s a whole nother situation, you’re, paying somebody to call you before they call the police.
So why not just call the police yourself get yourself a do-it-yourself alarm system get yourself a camera system, get yourself something where you can call the police yourself you’re going to get notified yourself.
Call the police yourself skip the middlemen, you’re, calling them to call you before they call the police if it’s the type of service that calls the police. Without talking to you. First, then you’re opening yourself up to false alarm fees, depending on where you live.
If you get a false alarm on your alarm system, the police have to come and nothing happens. You can get charged a false alarm fee. This especially happens all the time in businesses, but it can happen in your home too, so you’re paying a monthly fee when you can just do it yourself, and you can also prevent these false alarms.
So to me, the burglar system is just outdated. I think it’ll go away. I really think the only reason they still exist, is because a lot of the companies that sell them just want your monthly dollar because of those monitoring services.
You know, there are just some people in a call center. They don’t even really. You know care they’re, just they’re just doing their job. So that’s great. Everybody needs a job, but you know you’re just paying somebody to do something.
You can just do it yourself nowadays, there are too many other features and cameras and other different ways to secure your home, but definitely camera systems to be proactive instead of reactive and that’s the key.
So the answer, to the question is: why don’t I sell security systems? I just told you why I’d much rather be proactive than reactive. That’s just the way. I am that’s that should be the key to security. Stop it before it happens.
You know you hear all these stories about home invasions and how scary I mean. We’ve come behind it all the time and these people telling their stories. It’s just horrific. I hate it, but I also love giving them peace of mind once these things have happened to them and again you’re going to give people much more peace of mind when it’s proactive versus reactive.