Brinks Home Security

Is Brinks Home Security the Home Security Provider You Want?

Although this article is titled Brinks Home Security, that is a little misleading. If you came here to learn more about Brinks Home Security then you may be in for an eye opener.

Brinks Home Security became Broadview Security in 2009. Amazingly you may still find promotional ads about Brinks Home Security around the Internet even today at the writing of this article. However, should you think Broadview Security is now what you should be looking for you should know that it, too, is gone. More precisely, the company was bought out by ADT.

However, again, you will still be able to find promotional ads for Broadview around the web. Before it was assimilated into ADT, Broadview had a very good reputation in the customer service arena. In sales, it was number 2. By being bought out by ADT, the new company is now expected to hold 35 to 45% of the U.S.’s home alarm market. Since that market is increasing by about 10% every year, there is a lot of room for many of the other home security providers. This is especially true if one takes into account the many local security companies.

What Broadview Security did, as well as ADT does now, is to provide you with a home security system that will be installed by either a local authorized dealer or by corporate technicians. While the cheaper price of some of the offerings available may entice you, be aware that you will most likely require more equipment to provide full security coverage for your home than is provided in these “starter” packages.

In one such offer still online at the time of the writing of this article, you could get Broadview Security alarm system for $99. The included equipment in this offer only had 2 windor/door sensors included. I don’t know about your home, but mine contains more than 2 windows. The living room alone has more than 2 windows.

What this means is you will need to be aware that you will want to add in more home security equipment such as more sensors or an upgraded motion detector to allow for pet movement. That means your end price is going to be more than what is offered in the starter package that is used to get the company’s foot in the door, so to speak.

Now that isn’t really as bad as it sounds. Many companies offer items for sale at less than it costs to buy them knowing you will end up adding more items to your purchase. Your local grocery store does this every week. You simply don’t think about it. It is a marketing tactic and a good one just as long as you are aware of it.

Additionally Brinks Home Security, or Broadview Security, now ADT offer you a monitoring service for your new home security system. This can be a good thing provided you know some key aspects which will be covered in another article. With 2 Broadview monitoring centers added to the 4 ADT monitoring centers (plus 2 in Canada), you will be able to get service just about anywhere. Just be sure that any calls made to the center are not in addition to the monthly monitoring service you will pay for due to your location.

One last thing to be aware of is that most likely Brinks Home Security (then Broadview Security, now ADT) may use authorized dealers to do the install of equipment into your home with the contract for monitoring services then being sold to Brinks (or whoever). If at all possible, you do not want this unless you have written down who will take care of problems after installation, what it will cost, and what service charges will be to make service calls. You could get caught in a battle between the installer and the monitoring service. Not a happy place. Try to get corporate installers to mitigate some of the potential problems you will have.