home security systems - suggestions?

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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,458
    couple signs from an alarm company can be enough in some places....
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    edited October 2019
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  • BLACK35
    BLACK35 Hanover, Ontario Posts: 22,972
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    BLACK35 said:
    Pit Bull
    That guy's music would keep most home invaders/burglars away
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,814
    The Juggler said:
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    What's everyone using these days? The wife has been bugging me to get one. Apparently my old high school Easton bat under the bed isn't enough security for her.
    I have a personalized L.Slugger under my bed along with a Just.In.Case tonfa.

    Changed from ADT (sucked fucking balls) to a Vivint system a few years back.  (Full disclosure -- I was incensed at my ADT system malfunctioning (again) and put my fist into the main control panel...so I sorta had to switch.  The Vivint installer laughed really hard at that, but said he had actually seen that happen before.)
    Everything is connected to video in front/back of house...my nest attaches to it so I can control thermo and cameras/doorbell/past event video from anywhere I can connect to the cloud.  It is only $15 more p/m than the shitty ADT system. 
    I love it.
    Also put motion detected floods all around the house and pool area to make my wife more comfortable since I travel a lot.
    She has a remote by the bed which she can do fire/police/alarm from.
    Also gave her a sweet mace "gun" which would make it pretty much impossible to miss if an intruder did get in and she met him at the top of the stairs.  (Which has a gate still in place from the kiddo so the person would be slowed already even if they chose to ignore the alarm & they would get an awesome shot of pepper in the face.)
    Will not keep a gun in the house - nobody other than me knows anything about them.
    Did the motion lights come with the security plan or is that something else?
    Nah I had my electrician put those in after I got them at home Depot 
    The company probably would have, but charged me two times as much.

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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,814
    mickeyrat said:
    couple signs from an alarm company can be enough in some places....
    I have a vivant or adp sticker in every ground floor window where I think people might prowl, and a sign at each area someone might approach.
    We live in a nice area but it is a small amount to pay altogether for her piece of mind.
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  • Fifthelement
    Fifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,965


    People can not even park in front of my house without the dogs letting me know someone is there.  Was very comforting when the husband was deployed overseas for 13 months.
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  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    edited October 2019
    We have cameras and a sign. It was handy when trying to figure out whether it was a neighbor or the city who left a reminder to us that we put our trash cans out a day early. :angry:

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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,680
    Jason P said:
    cheapest solution is to hang a confederate flag in your front window. 
    Ha!!
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,680
    edited October 2019
    My parents' method has always worked really well: Make it look like you're home and like you have a mean dog. Keep a radio on a pretty high volume when you're out, keep a couple or lights on (ideally, have them on programmable smart plugs, so they turn on and off randomly, and all at different times) ... Also just post a scary Beware of Dog sign where it's visible, and also on any back doors. You don't even have to actually have a dog. It also helps to have visible but fake security cameras. They are cheap and still work as a deterrent.
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