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INVESTIGATIONS & REVIEW Section
Last updated: November 18, 2009
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Benjamin Anosike, Ph.D.
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Why HOME SECURITY, the subject of this Review, Could be of Such Great Importance for You Today.
You might probably be surprised, if not shocked, about this. But here’s probably one of the biggest ironies in our lives in the United States.
What is it? Home break in or burglary is easily one of the most ordinary of crimes in our society; and yet, it is among the least we pay the
necessary attention or devote the necessary resources to, in relative terms! And, again, yet that issue (our safety and the safety of our
loved ones, along with our personal belongs), is one of the most important concerns our lives, in almost all households!
Here are a few relevant hard research FACTS OF LIFE uncovered by our YHWR researchers on this:
- More than TWO MILLION Americans are victims of burglary every single year. In the year 1997, for example, there were 2.43
million (2,430,000) burglaries in the country, and 489,000 robberies (Temple University's study), and all evidence is that those figures
are sizeably higher today relative to then.
- 1 out of 5 homes will have a burglary, fire or carbon monoxide poisoning every year. (U.S. Department of Justice study, Criminal
Victimization in the U. S., 1999) - In the year 2005, for example, nearly 3% of all households were burglarized, according to U.S. Department of Justice reports.
- A burglary occurs somewhere in the United States, every fifteen seconds, and four burglaries each minute of every day. (FBI reports).
- Fires kill more Americans than all deaths recorded on natural disasters combined. (National Fire Protection Association, Fire Loss in the
U.S., 2001; National Fire Protection Association, U.S. Fire Problem, 2001; and National Fire Data Center, Fire in the United States, 1989-
1998, 12th ed.) - Estimates by the U.S. Fire Administration, are that there were over one and one-half million household fires in 2007, with property
losses of over $14 billion. - 1 out of every 3 homes will have a medical emergency. (National Center for Health Statistics, 1999)
- FBI REPORT: Violent crimes on the rise, as reported by the CBS News. "For the second year in a row, the FBI's Uniform Crime Report
shows violent crime on the rise: overall, violent crimes were up 1.3 percent. Robbery is up six percent and homicide is up .3 percent."
(CBS News).
IN SUM: The bottom line is, home burglary, as well as other dreadful emergencies that can some times happen to people, such as home
fires, carbon monoxide poisoning, and medical emergencies (all of which are the kinds of dreadful things that a good home security system is
expected to, and can, prevent or reduce), are not only a possibility that could happen in the lives of most Americans. But they are, in fact, a
common place, prevalent occurrence which ACTUALLY generally do happen all too often in the daily lives of most Americans, and, what is
more, could, just as likely, happen to YOU in your own home and life!
WHY WE UNDERTOOK TO DO THIS REVIEW PROJECT
As one of the more credible online review organizations that consumers often rely upon as the LAST RESORT for reliable information, after
our first preliminary look at the task in terms of its propriety and priority as to how to best maximize and utilize our limited budgetary and
personnel resources, the YHWR management finally elected to commission this review on home security for a few vital reasons.
These reasons include the following:
1. It is a Matter that Has a High and Special Place in the Minds of Most Americans
As a research organization dealing with the quality of online products and services, as well as of human beings and/or their companies that
promote such items, we find that security is often the very top NUMBER #1 PRIORITY ISSUE with most people, especially when it
comes to their homes. And, after all, when you're thinking about your home, you're automatically thinking about your family, your pets,
even those special possessions that have the most intimate sentimental value for you, you name it! In short, just about everything that is
most dear, most valuable and important to your heart! And so, the very last thing you ever want to be thinking about, or even to ever
imagine, is the possibility of having your home broken into! And that is precisely why, in a most serious personal matter such as that when
your family’s very security is your top priority, what you want the most is a home security system that you are almost ABSOLUTELY certain
is DEPENDABLE, period.
It’s just plain that simple!
This is just one of those few special matters in life for most human beings when having a peace of mind is just plain PRICELESS. Knowing,
with some reasonable degree of certainty, that you have a dependable and reliable home security system, just plain offers a great
deal of human peace of mind and satisfaction, whether you're at work, on a vacation or sleeping.
Consequently, just from the standpoint of plain being a PRIORITY CONCERN of the average American, the YHWR research organization felt a
compelling and appropriate reason to do such a thorough review of the truly good home security systems that are available out there which
the American consumers can truly rely and depend on to entrust probably the single most cherished personal concerns of their lives.
2. The YHWR'S Response to Consumers’ Calls
There's a second major reason. Over and beyond the usual more-than-average interest that consumers usually show, any way, in matters
concerning their home security, there is, however, another special new critical factor that for us made this particular review become a virtual
necessity. And that’s the element of the present poor economic and job conditions in the nation – a factor which, by many studies and
surveys, has significantly increased burglaries and crimes all across the nation.
Since the coming of the present harsh economic recession, especially as of late 2008 and beyond, our YourHonestWebReviews.Com
investigative offices have been inundated by American consumers and home owners, obviously worried about the general rise in crimes and
home burglaries. Persons who have contacted us, have generally alerted us to look into the various home security systems that are the
subject matter of this present report, as they complain that they are confused about the great varieties of brands involved in home security
industry. They ask that the YHWR investigators check out the actual TRUTH involved in the different “product quality advertising wars” they
encounter for so many different home security system brands that are advertised.
Evidence of Some Increase in Burglaries since Current Economic Recession...
In deed, data uncovered by researchers in the YHWR study on the current-day crime conditions for this report, show that:
- Retail theft (including shoplifting, employee theft, administrative error and vendor fraud, etc), is up in 2009, according to a recent
annual survey conducted by the University of Florida. - The National Retail Security Survey (NRSS) preliminary results, show a real increase in the rate of retail theft for the first time in six
years. In 2007, the lowest rate of retail theft in the 18-year history of the survey was reported to be at a rate of 1.44 percent of
overall retail sales, but last year that rate rose to 1.52 percent of the sales, translating into losses of $36.5 billion. - Experts, including Merlin Guilbeau, the executive director of the National Burglar & Fire Alarm Association (NBFAA), estimate that, in
Guilbeau’s words, “As the crime rate in many markets continues increasing, we keep seeing more people calling security companies
who are concerned about their safety,” as he asserts that “Security systems have become the ‘must have’ item for the home.”
Why We Finally Commissioned this Investigation....
So, in light of the above-outlined set of facts, the YHWR found it absolutely necessary and timely that this present study be undertaken right
at this moment in time. And hence, as the Research Director of YHWR, I (Dr. Benjamin Anosike, Ph.D) was authorized by the
YourHonestWebReviews.Com to commission a comprehensive investigation and review about the home security systems that is the subject
matter of this report here - an instigation which has later turned out to be probably one of the most thorough investigations on the Internet
about any industry. And thus, I sent out our team of researchers to investigate the objective facts and the real truth about the true state of
the home security systems in the whole market today.
Hence, the result?
The point is, if you are a home owner or just a renting tenant concerned about being safe and secured in your own home or place of abode,
you can jolly well rest absolutely assured that we've got it all taken care for you right here - thoroughly, professionally, objectively, with
ABSOLUTELY NO BIAS or ANY SELF-INTERESTEDNESS OF ANY KIND! A review that WILL TELL YOU THE TRUTH - even if it is a bitter truth.
FIRST, DOES HOME SECURITY ALARM MONITORING SYSTEM PREVENT OR STOP HOME BURGLARY?
Considering the very TOP PRIORITY that Americans place in home safety and the security of their homes, more especially in today’s
desperate economy, the very PRIMARY question that the YHWR reviewers FIRST sought to find out, was simply this: is a good and
dependable burglary alarm system (just assuming a consumer can find one) an effective tool that can deter and prevent home break-ins or
burglaries?
The Answer to that is YES, in a Huge Way...
Many numerous investigations, studies and statistics, reviewed by our YHWR researchers immediately show, empirically, that there's a high
degree of effectiveness for the use of a monitored electronic security system as a deterrent to home break-in and prevention tool to combat
burglaries. Such data and studies include the following:
- That a recent 2009 Rutgers University study by its School of Criminal Justice, the most comprehensive of its kind ever conducted, using
five years of data, scientifically proved that burglars, by a margin of as much as 30 to 40 percent, tend to avoid homes with burglar
alarm systems, as the study further found that "an installed burglar alarm makes a dwelling less attractive to the would-be and active
intruders and protects the home without displacing burglars to nearby homes."
- That, in deed, in an earlier study in 1994 that was based on interviews with burglars, “Burglars on the Job,” which had been published
by Northeastern University Press, researchers had made a similar finding, and had concluded that, “Most offenders, though, wanted
to avoid alarms altogether and, upon encountering such devices abandoned all thought of attacking the dwelling.”
- That, according to a Temple University study headed by Professor Simon Hakim, Director of the university's Center for Competitive
Government, a monitored alarm system makes a home three times less likely to be burglarized versus a home without an alarm.
Businesses without alarm systems are 4.5 times more likely to be burglarized than the ones with electronic security system. And,
finally, losses due to burglary average $400 less in residences without alarm security systems.
- That, according to confession made by the burglars, 9 out of 10 convicted burglars admitted that they would avoid making a burglary
attempt altogether on a house that’s protected by an alarm system. (U.S. Department of Justice study, 1999).
- That, an effective home security system (but one from a reputable home security company) makes a home 3 times LESS LIKELY to
be burglarized, according to a National Burglar and Fire Association study (2004). Additionally, however, the 2009 study by Rutgers
University, first cited above, found that though having a residential burglary alarm system in a home does, in deed, decrease crime by
as much as 30-40 percent, it does so, though, not just on the property only that has the alarm system, but in the ENTIRE surrounding
area. - That installation of electronic security products by Americans, and use of professional services (and the spending) on them, has been
growing at an estimated 4.3 percent per year (STAT Resources, Inc., a Newton, Mass, full service market research organization
specialized in such matters).
- That 94 percent of home alarm owners are satisfied with their alarm systems (Prof. Simon Hakim's study of Temple University).
- That 90 percent of the Police believe that alarms deter burglary attempts. (STAT Resources study).
- According to a Board Resolution passed by the International Association of Chiefs of Police in 1994, alarm systems, providing, though,
they are professionally installed and monitored, are useful instruments to deter crime and provide peace of mind for both residential
users and business owners. (International Association of Chiefs of Police, Alexandria, Va.).
- ONE OTHER CRITICAL YHWR RESEARCHERS' FINDING: That, as a homeowner or consumer, if you choose the improper or wrong home
security system, or,even worse than that, the wrong or unreliable company which provides or installs the system for you, you stand a
serious chance of sustaining serious break ins, and even risk to life, that is just primarily attributable to that specific factor alone! And,
further more, that you may, in stead, possibly find yourself in even worse shape than you were before you first went for the home
security system.
It's Probably the Single Most Effective Solution to home burglary....
In point of fact, security experts commonly contend that, pound for pound, probably the best and single most effective solution for
keeping home burglars away from your home, and your family safe, is simply this: having a (good and reliable) monitored home
alarm security system.
WHY is that?
Because of it’s tremendous “deterrent effect” power or factor. Says Chris E. McGoey, an internationally acclaimed expert and probably one
of the foremost authorities on home security management in America who often works with the media on home violence, crime and burglary
prevention and is a frequent expert witness in court cases on such matters throughout America, who was consulted by YHWR reviewers,
among other sources, "alarm systems deter burglaries because they increase the potential and [provoke in the potential burglar the] fear of
being caught and arrested by the police. The deterrent value comes from the alarm company lawn sign and from the alarm decals on the
windows. Home and apartment burglars will usually bypass a property with visible alarm signs and will go to another property that does not
have such a sign."
BOTTOM LINE: Overwhelmingly, by the overwhelming amount of data accumulated by the expert researchers of the YHWR
investigative office, the almost conclusive finding of the YHWR researchers is that the mere fact of just having a good, professionally installed
and monitored ELECTRONIC HOME SECURITY SYSTEM ALONE DRASTICALLY REDUCES the possibility of having a BURGLARY in a home, and
hugely DETERS BURGLARS from hitting a home. (Just as it does, as well, in respect to other important risk and emergency situations).
Hence, what is probably of the most critical importance of all, is that you choose THE RIGHT company. Like any other industry, there are
good companies, and there are bad companies. (Read further below)
THE PRIMARY PROBLEM YOU'LL USUALLY BE CONFRONTED WITH AS A CONSUMER OR HOME OWNER
INTERESTED IN GETTING GOOD HOME SECURITY SERVICE
List of 500List of 100 Biggest
Being able to pick out and choose the RIGHT one, as the biggest problem
Choosing a home security and burglar alarm system, especially a high quality one that is the most proper and fitting type for you, and which
will be unfailing and dependable, can be one of the toughest and most difficult things for any homeowner ever.
Why?
This is primarily due to the fact that there’s such a great multitude and wide variety of optional house security and alarm systems and
security companies in the market. Just perusing local telephone directories or Internet searches, will quickly yield you a large number of home
security companies in any one of the major cities, which can often be most confusing for almost all but the most expert of security eyes.
In fact, there are, by our own studies, some significant number of 2,500 to 3,400 outfits that present themselves as security companies or
marketers of such items across America. And out of these, a consumer or home owner is supposed to pick out just ONE to secure his or her
home or property. For some of these, Click HERE & HERE. (List of 500List of 100 Biggest). Furthermore, just as importantly, in trying to compare
the various security systems to pick out the best and proper one for you, you must also be able to have a pretty good idea and
understanding of exactly which types of important security features are offered by each option.
A 1997 market research report, for example, by STAT Resources, Inc., a Newton Mass full service market research organization, found there
was an average of 13,100 businesses nationwide that were classified as "alarm installing entities." (Dependable alarm installing entities).
Hence, the toughest part of all aspects for consumers, is being able by the consumer to pick out just ONE company out of such a huge
number of different security systems, as well as the companies which sell them, each of which is hotly competing with the others to see
which can out-do the other in making fabulous advertising claims about their own individual products -- through a constant flood of
advertisements on the Internet, by radio and TV, by newspapers and bill boards, etc. And each of whom, of course, will claim excellence and
high quality for the brand they provide customers, and all of whom will say, of course, that their own particular brands of product (and the
related services), is the very greatest and the very best quality!
So, how the heck can the average person tell the good ones from the bad ones?
Consequently, finding a product or company by a consumer that is, IN FACT, truly good under such circumstances, let alone the very best, is
not at all by any means an easy task. With so many home security companies (and products) out there, they all soon start looking and
sounding alike after a while, and so also are their TV, radio, and newspaper ads.
So, because of this FINDING, here comes the EXPERT evaluation work of our independent researchers...
Hence, the YHWR research organization steps in to aid consumers in this vital task; to provide an HONEST, expert, independent, unaffiliated,
quality evaluation and ranking of the variety of systems out there, which is one that is absolutely unbiased and EVIDENCE-based, and which
consumers can very comfortably TRUST and rely upon, and KNOW for sure, that it's "the real thing."
Being able to pick out and choose the RIGHT one, as the biggest problem
Choosing a home security and burglar alarm system, especially a high quality one that is the most proper and fitting type for you, and which
will be unfailing and dependable, can be one of the toughest and most difficult things for any homeowner ever.
Why?
This is primarily due to the fact that there’s such a great multitude and wide variety of optional house security and alarm systems and
security companies in the market. Just perusing local telephone directories or Internet searches, will quickly yield you a large number of home
security companies in any one of the major cities, which can often be most confusing for almost all but the most expert of security eyes.
In fact, there are, by our own studies, some significant number of 2,500 to 3,400 outfits that present themselves as security companies or
marketers of such items across America. And out of these, a consumer or home owner is supposed to pick out just ONE to secure his or her
home or property. For some of these, Click HERE & HERE. (List of 500List of 100 Biggest). Furthermore, just as importantly, in trying to compare
the various security systems to pick out the best and proper one for you, you must also be able to have a pretty good idea and
understanding of exactly which types of important security features are offered by each option.
A 1997 market research report, for example, by STAT Resources, Inc., a Newton Mass full service market research organization, found there
was an average of 13,100 businesses nationwide that were classified as "alarm installing entities." (Dependable alarm installing entities).
Hence, the toughest part of all aspects for consumers, is being able by the consumer to pick out just ONE company out of such a huge
number of different security systems, as well as the companies which sell them, each of which is hotly competing with the others to see
which can out-do the other in making fabulous advertising claims about their own individual products -- through a constant flood of
advertisements on the Internet, by radio and TV, by newspapers and bill boards, etc. And each of whom, of course, will claim excellence and
high quality for the brand they provide customers, and all of whom will say, of course, that their own particular brands of product (and the
related services), is the very greatest and the very best quality!
So, how the heck can the average person tell the good ones from the bad ones?
Consequently, finding a product or company by a consumer that is, IN FACT, truly good under such circumstances, let alone the very best, is
not at all by any means an easy task. With so many home security companies (and products) out there, they all soon start looking and
sounding alike after a while, and so also are their TV, radio, and newspaper ads.
So, because of this FINDING, here comes the EXPERT evaluation work of our independent researchers...
Hence, the YHWR research organization steps in to aid consumers in this vital task; to provide an HONEST, expert, independent, unaffiliated,
quality evaluation and ranking of the variety of systems out there, which is one that is absolutely unbiased and EVIDENCE-based, and which
consumers can very comfortably TRUST and rely upon, and KNOW for sure, that it's "the real thing."
| Best of the Best Home Security System & Company Reviewed, Ranked & Revealed, by the HONEST Online Selectors of the Best of the Best |
Home Security Components (just for your information)
Your home security system will consist of many different pieces (components) of hardware. A representative from the
companies you talk to should question you carefully (or come to your house and do an inspection, in certain cases when
and where it might be necessary), then give you a recommendation on what types of equipment you'll need.
Here are some of the most common components.
Control panel/keypads
The control panel – virtually the “brains” of the whole home security setup; what
you use to arm and disarm the system. Many systems are set up with one control
panel near the main entrance, and one in a more secure location (e.g., the master
bedroom), making it easy to arm the system when you go to bed.
Secondary keypads let you come and go through other doors or the garage, but not reprogram the whole system.
Exterior keypads, when combined with electronic locks, allow keyless entry to anyone who enters the right code. Add-on
keypads are relatively inexpensive and a good way to make the whole alarm system easy to use.
Sensors – the detectors which do the actual 'security' for an alarm system. There are different kinds of sensors: the
magnetic type sensors, which are used in the windows and doors contact areas to tell if one is open; the infrared and
microwave sensors, which is meant to detect body heat or motion, if someone's inside; and there are even sensors that
are meant to listen for the sound of glass breaking.
Older systems used pressure-sensitive panels in the floor, but due the cost of installing them and the dropping prices
for other kinds of sensors, they're not usually used any more.
Sirens and light – indicators of possible intrusion or other trouble, both audible and visible, such as sirens, horns, or
bells, which may be heard throughout the house and at the street., flashing lights (strobes or rotating beacons), which
are more commonly used in businesses. All these can also help police pin point or confirm where the trouble is in an
emergency.
Remote control/key fob – comparable to a key fob that lets you lock and alarm your car, for the alarm system, this is
like a remote control for the entire system that typically serves vital functions like arming or disarming the entire system,
and a panic button.
Backup battery – these are batteries that automatically provide power to your burglar alarm, in the event that, and
when, the power goes out, some of them for up to 24 hours. No matter how sophisticated your alarm system is, it can't
work without power. If there should ever be a time when the power is off, a burglar or intruder would be able to disable
your entire system by cutting the power – UNLESS you have a back up battery.
Yard signs/window decals – Basically, the signs (they are usually placed at strategic places in the yard) that
“advertises” to the would-be intruder to head elsewhere and not to dare try to break in, in that you have an alarm
system is in place. (Described by one expert in these terms: “It's amazing how the simple "Protected by …" signs you
see on homes are among the most trivial yet important parts of a home security system. An audible alarm can still scare
them off once they're in, but if you're home at the time and a criminal gets spooked by a siren, a dangerous situation
could develop.”)
Your home security system will consist of many different pieces (components) of hardware. A representative from the
companies you talk to should question you carefully (or come to your house and do an inspection, in certain cases when
and where it might be necessary), then give you a recommendation on what types of equipment you'll need.
Here are some of the most common components.
Control panel/keypads
The control panel – virtually the “brains” of the whole home security setup; what
you use to arm and disarm the system. Many systems are set up with one control
panel near the main entrance, and one in a more secure location (e.g., the master
bedroom), making it easy to arm the system when you go to bed.
Secondary keypads let you come and go through other doors or the garage, but not reprogram the whole system.
Exterior keypads, when combined with electronic locks, allow keyless entry to anyone who enters the right code. Add-on
keypads are relatively inexpensive and a good way to make the whole alarm system easy to use.
Sensors – the detectors which do the actual 'security' for an alarm system. There are different kinds of sensors: the
magnetic type sensors, which are used in the windows and doors contact areas to tell if one is open; the infrared and
microwave sensors, which is meant to detect body heat or motion, if someone's inside; and there are even sensors that
are meant to listen for the sound of glass breaking.
Older systems used pressure-sensitive panels in the floor, but due the cost of installing them and the dropping prices
for other kinds of sensors, they're not usually used any more.
Sirens and light – indicators of possible intrusion or other trouble, both audible and visible, such as sirens, horns, or
bells, which may be heard throughout the house and at the street., flashing lights (strobes or rotating beacons), which
are more commonly used in businesses. All these can also help police pin point or confirm where the trouble is in an
emergency.
Remote control/key fob – comparable to a key fob that lets you lock and alarm your car, for the alarm system, this is
like a remote control for the entire system that typically serves vital functions like arming or disarming the entire system,
and a panic button.
Backup battery – these are batteries that automatically provide power to your burglar alarm, in the event that, and
when, the power goes out, some of them for up to 24 hours. No matter how sophisticated your alarm system is, it can't
work without power. If there should ever be a time when the power is off, a burglar or intruder would be able to disable
your entire system by cutting the power – UNLESS you have a back up battery.
Yard signs/window decals – Basically, the signs (they are usually placed at strategic places in the yard) that
“advertises” to the would-be intruder to head elsewhere and not to dare try to break in, in that you have an alarm
system is in place. (Described by one expert in these terms: “It's amazing how the simple "Protected by …" signs you
see on homes are among the most trivial yet important parts of a home security system. An audible alarm can still scare
them off once they're in, but if you're home at the time and a criminal gets spooked by a siren, a dangerous situation
could develop.”)
| ================================================= "There’s nothing like the peace of mind you get in knowing that you and your family are safe, especially in your own home. Which is most probably why we found in our investigations that most Americans, when looking for a home security system, think it’s so important to have a foolproof, reliable and trusted brand." -- Words of One Prominent Home Review Security Expert Interviewed by Your Honest Web Reviews Research team ======================================================= |
| REMEMBER THE WHOLE PURPOSE: This review centers around one thing: providing you information as to what is “the best value” among the whole multitude (some 35,000 of them nationwide) of all the different home security systems and companies which exist today. Simply, various home security manufacturers and their systems, side-by- side with each other, so that you almost visibly “see” immediately, before your own eyes, what even the best among the best of them offer for the price they charge. And, by putting it vividly side-by-side this way, you can immediately see YOURSELF who it is that is giving the best value for the money, and who is grossly overcharging for their services – that is, what is “the best value” company or service for you. |
THE METHODOLOGY USED BY THE YHWR RESEARCH/REVIEW TEAM
Presenting themselves in various capacities both as ordinary consumers, and as regular home owners seeking to have or already having
home security system services, our team of highly trained online market investigators actually enrolled themselves in programs of home
security and personal safety run by major home security companies in the industry, and reviewed in depth over 100 of the top and most
active companies and organizations in the industry. They also studied relevant industry literature, documents and records on the companies
and their operations, previous product reviews done on the subject, interviewed other home owners, consumers and business persons, as
well as executives of companies and others. As a major part of its study and analysis, the Your Honest Web Reviews researchers undertook
a random survey of the home security companies' customers who recently contracted with the companies for home security services, and did
a detailed interview of the customer service representatives to probe for their courtesy, knowledge and concern for their customers.
And finally, with a view to uncovering the extent of the companies level of interest or commitment to their customers' satisfaction, the
researchers did a detailed interview of the customer service representatives to probe for their courtesy, knowledge and concern for their
customers, and also did a detailed audit in such areas as the recruiting, training and employee incentives of the companies, the
management roles and responsibilities, and their quality assurance capabilities, etc.
OUR YHWR TEAM'S 13 KEY EVALUATION CRITERIA (KEC)
FOR RATING HOME SECURITY COMPANIES
The following are the principal criteria upon which the YHWR Research/Review Team
examined and rated the home security companies reviewed:
1: A check to ascertain membership of, or accreditation by, one (or more) of the recognized accreditation institutions for the home security
industry. The best home security companies are usually a member in good standing, better if among the top membership, of one or the other
of these:
a) The National Burglar & Fire Alarm Association (NBFAA); and/or
b) The Security Distributing & Marketing (SDM) magazine’s annual poll of the electronic industry’s 100 best list.
2. The Reputation of the company. This includes the "Dependability Factor." How long has the company been in business? Is this a
company you can trust, that has proven within the industry, by a real past solid record, to be dependable? Who, for example, does the
surveillance and what is their experience and reputation?
NOTE: In home security analysis, a KEY factor in comparing and choosing home security systems is DEPENDABILITY. Hence, two major factors
that you should always look to include in your comparisons are the company experience and dependability.
3. Is the company’s home security system a MONITORED security system type. That is, one that has a live monitoring service on a 24
hour, 7 day a week basis, that will immediately call the authorities, such as the local police, if there is evidence of a problem.
(NOTE: According to experts, an "alarm only" system that is not connected to the local police, does really nothing, except merely sound loud
bells or horns – and act which, many experts say, can actually cause more problems than it solves, as may be the case, for example, when
such resulting alarm were to cause a burglar to panic while he is in the house with you!). Monitored alarms can include audible alarms – but
they also alert the police for much greater safety
4. What specific detection coverage and features, exactly, are included in the company's plan? When you compare prospective security
systems and companies, in addition to comparing prices and rates, you will want to first identify all the services you will be needing. And
those, as well, that you may consider as merely "optional" services, depending on your particular needs, the location of your home, the
affordability of cost, etc.
Here are the usual home security service options open to customers which customers may take into consideration in their potential service
package.
5. There are other considerations you will also want to keep in mind which will come as important factors for you in comparing systems:
6. Being UL Connected. Is the system connected to a UL-Listed, 24-hour monitoring center. (UL stands for Underwriters Laboratories,
which is an organization that approves goods and materials as up to the acceptable standards after they shall have conducted some
standardized and stringent testing.)
(Bear in mind what we said in Item #2 above about the dependability and experience factor as being a major key in comparing and choosing
a home security system or any major aspect of it).
7. Are the Company's Detectors of HARD-WIRED or WIRELESS Type? Basically, there are two types of detectors - the wireless and the
hard-wired types.
The WIRELESS detectors are simply active electronic devices that are connected to the local alarm system via wireless transmission.
The “hard-wired” type of detectors mean the type of detectors that will have to be connected to the local alarm system with wires that run
from each sensor and keypad to the central control panel. This means that the installation of this system will require that holes be drilled
through the walls, running wires through those holes in the walls to install the alarm.
The wireless system, require equipment which are slightly larger than their wired counterparts; the required equipments are probably more
visibly intrusive, and are often considered to be the more expensive one relative to the hard-wired. However, though, often when you
compare, after the cost of the installation is factored in, it may turn out that getting the wireless system would be the cheaper and more cost
effective option, and that factor alone may, perhaps, make it seem worthwhile for you to want to pay the extra to get a wireless system.
Furthermore, consider this: There is, too, a security advantage in having a wireless system: any would-be burglars will NOT be able to cut
the alarm wires for this kind of system to disable it, since there are no wires, in this case, needing to be cut, to begin with. In wireless
system, the home owner's satisfaction will not have to be dependent on the skill level and quality of work of the installer, as is usually the
case with the hard-wired case.
8. High Basic Number of Sensors. Does the service offered by the company cover at least more than 3 sensors, preferably 10 or more of
them, at a reasonable and affordable cost, so as to cover ALL the entry points (doors/windows) on the ground level.
9. Wide Variety of Solutions. Does the company only offer just ONE type of monitoring security system solution? Or are they well-versed in
a number of different, flexible options that are offered still offered at affordable prices? (Having a variety of monitoring choices, rather than
just one or so, means that as a customer you can find the right home security programs that are flexible in fitting your specific needs).
10. Cost. What is the price it will cost you for the security company for the system – in “relative” or comparative terms?
NOTE: What this means, in home security system business, is very important. What it means, is that in dealings in the home security
business, sure it is important to be concerned about, and to ascertain, the cost factor. However, though, there is even another thing that’s
just as important that you should be equally concerned with – and that is, the differences (and there usually are plenty of such) in the range
of gadgets which each company is offering, and in the units and services that are connected to that.
11. Credible Industry Awards and/or Reviews. Are there any awards, commendations and/or reviews from respectable, objective home
security industry organizations, professionals, journals or review media or organs on the Company's Services.
12. Evidence that the Company is organized, Stable and trustworthy. For example, does the company use proper and securely identified
company technicians & field workers who are fully licensed? Does the company furnish its field technicians, who may atimes have to come to
your home to install or repair your home security systems, with authentic IDs and credentials? (NOTE: These are usually more relevant and
applicable for companies or systems that offer hard-wired monitoring system, but not for wireless systems).
13. Customer Service. Finally, last but not the least, of all the many, many factors to consider, this is perhaps the most important aspect in
any home security system program. When you compare home security system offers by different companies, it is of the utmost importance
according to industry experts, to be sure to check out diligently the quality of the customer services offered by each provider. This is a most
important aspect in comparing home security systems because, as one security expert succinctly put it, "a bad customer service could turn an
otherwise good home security buy into a nightmare."
THE YHWR SCORING, RATING SYSTEM
The FIRST 13 Criteria
The Your Honest Web Reviewers (YHWR) found approximately 13,500 businesses nationwide that operate and advertise on the Internet as
well as offline as home security outfits. First, we used the above-listed YHWR 13 Key Evaluation Criteria or KEC to evaluate them and rate
them. Through a methodology we call the "process of informed reasonable elimination," the number was brought down to the top 200, then
further down to the top 20, and down to the top 12 or dozen. All the companies involved were graded and rated on each of these KEC, to
narrow it down to this top 12. A value (a percentile value of from 0 -100) was assigned to each of the 13 criteria and scored for each
company on each criteria. Each company's scores were then added up on all 13 criteria to obtain an official YHWR Key Evaluation Criteria
value for each of the companies, and the ones whose scores ranked in the top 12, were the companies showing the highest scores.
The SECOND 7 Criteria
Finally, to determine the very top Number #1 company of all companies (the Number 1 ranked among our best 12), the Review team further
subjected these 12 outstanding companies to another rigorous evaluation based on these additional SECOND 7 criteria listed below:
THE RESULTS?
First, the Findings on the POORLY RUN, RISKY, UNRELIABLE Home Security Companies - Frightening!
First, before explaining the companies ranked as the top 12, and giving the name of the company that emerged as the topmost Number #1
company of them all, we'd want first to say a few words about our findings on the large number of incompetent, poorly run and unreliable
home security companies that turned up in the industry in the study. It's actually nothing short of alarming! Our researchers identified some
13,500 outfits overall that operate in the United States as "alarm installing entities" (house security outfits). Of these, some 72.4% of the
operations we examined in our actual test sample (145 out of the top 200), ranked in the YHWR Key Evaluation Criteria at levels so poor and
pathetic, that those operations are simply unreliable, in deed dangerous, to the home owner or renter who would dare ever to buy such
home security programs from such a company.
In general, for a good deal of those companies, it's not so much that these outfits are outright scams or deliberate frauds in which the
operators of the outfits are deliberately out to cheat or defraud the customers out of their money. However, the problem primarily is that
such operations are just plain poorly run, are often manned by incompetent workers, poorly trained and unqualified technicians. And hence,
the home security services and equipments they offer customers are generally of poor and low quality, and, most importantly,
UNDEPENDABLE and UNRELIABLE - a factor that obviously is still very risky and important, nevertheless, given the fact that what
we're talking about, is the physical security and safety of people and their families and dear ones in their own homes!
Some of the Things Which These Poorly Run, RISKY, Unreliable Home Security Companies Have In Common.
They include the following:
Alright, those are pathetic findings, quite alright! But our reviewers have just got to call it EXACTLY like it is!
More Importantly, Here's the Good News!
The good news is, thank goodness, there are other options, there are good legitimate ones, available which we found. It's NOT all bad and
sloppy or unreliable operations at all, thank God!
THE TOP ONE DOZEN COMPANIES
IN THE HOME SECURITY FIELD
Using the rigorous YourHonestWebReviews.Com's Key Evaluation Criteria (KEC) and ranking system described above (the 13 first KEC) doing
the evaluation calculations, we determined that just 27.4% of the 200 in the sample companies we reviewed (55 of the 200) are legitimate
home security operations that are fairly responsible and dependable, although the detailed extent of the quality of the individual
performance level was variable in degree from one company to another. The top 12 companies in the industry, using the said first set of 13
evaluation criteria listed above, was then formulated.
They are the following (not in any particular order here):
The YourHonestWebReviews.Com's TOP DOZEN HOME SECURITY COMPANIES
Presenting themselves in various capacities both as ordinary consumers, and as regular home owners seeking to have or already having
home security system services, our team of highly trained online market investigators actually enrolled themselves in programs of home
security and personal safety run by major home security companies in the industry, and reviewed in depth over 100 of the top and most
active companies and organizations in the industry. They also studied relevant industry literature, documents and records on the companies
and their operations, previous product reviews done on the subject, interviewed other home owners, consumers and business persons, as
well as executives of companies and others. As a major part of its study and analysis, the Your Honest Web Reviews researchers undertook
a random survey of the home security companies' customers who recently contracted with the companies for home security services, and did
a detailed interview of the customer service representatives to probe for their courtesy, knowledge and concern for their customers.
And finally, with a view to uncovering the extent of the companies level of interest or commitment to their customers' satisfaction, the
researchers did a detailed interview of the customer service representatives to probe for their courtesy, knowledge and concern for their
customers, and also did a detailed audit in such areas as the recruiting, training and employee incentives of the companies, the
management roles and responsibilities, and their quality assurance capabilities, etc.
OUR YHWR TEAM'S 13 KEY EVALUATION CRITERIA (KEC)
FOR RATING HOME SECURITY COMPANIES
The following are the principal criteria upon which the YHWR Research/Review Team
examined and rated the home security companies reviewed:
1: A check to ascertain membership of, or accreditation by, one (or more) of the recognized accreditation institutions for the home security
industry. The best home security companies are usually a member in good standing, better if among the top membership, of one or the other
of these:
a) The National Burglar & Fire Alarm Association (NBFAA); and/or
b) The Security Distributing & Marketing (SDM) magazine’s annual poll of the electronic industry’s 100 best list.
2. The Reputation of the company. This includes the "Dependability Factor." How long has the company been in business? Is this a
company you can trust, that has proven within the industry, by a real past solid record, to be dependable? Who, for example, does the
surveillance and what is their experience and reputation?
NOTE: In home security analysis, a KEY factor in comparing and choosing home security systems is DEPENDABILITY. Hence, two major factors
that you should always look to include in your comparisons are the company experience and dependability.
3. Is the company’s home security system a MONITORED security system type. That is, one that has a live monitoring service on a 24
hour, 7 day a week basis, that will immediately call the authorities, such as the local police, if there is evidence of a problem.
(NOTE: According to experts, an "alarm only" system that is not connected to the local police, does really nothing, except merely sound loud
bells or horns – and act which, many experts say, can actually cause more problems than it solves, as may be the case, for example, when
such resulting alarm were to cause a burglar to panic while he is in the house with you!). Monitored alarms can include audible alarms – but
they also alert the police for much greater safety
4. What specific detection coverage and features, exactly, are included in the company's plan? When you compare prospective security
systems and companies, in addition to comparing prices and rates, you will want to first identify all the services you will be needing. And
those, as well, that you may consider as merely "optional" services, depending on your particular needs, the location of your home, the
affordability of cost, etc.
Here are the usual home security service options open to customers which customers may take into consideration in their potential service
package.
- Burglary
- Fire
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Flood
- Property Damage
5. There are other considerations you will also want to keep in mind which will come as important factors for you in comparing systems:
- Does each prospective system include a maintenance plan that will cover both parts and service?
- Does each have a rechargeable backup battery that will keep the system operating in the event of a power failure?
- Will you only want, for example, ONLY your house interior protected (the more common option), or will you want your yard and outer
buildings, as well secured (usually costs far more)?
6. Being UL Connected. Is the system connected to a UL-Listed, 24-hour monitoring center. (UL stands for Underwriters Laboratories,
which is an organization that approves goods and materials as up to the acceptable standards after they shall have conducted some
standardized and stringent testing.)
(Bear in mind what we said in Item #2 above about the dependability and experience factor as being a major key in comparing and choosing
a home security system or any major aspect of it).
7. Are the Company's Detectors of HARD-WIRED or WIRELESS Type? Basically, there are two types of detectors - the wireless and the
hard-wired types.
The WIRELESS detectors are simply active electronic devices that are connected to the local alarm system via wireless transmission.
The “hard-wired” type of detectors mean the type of detectors that will have to be connected to the local alarm system with wires that run
from each sensor and keypad to the central control panel. This means that the installation of this system will require that holes be drilled
through the walls, running wires through those holes in the walls to install the alarm.
The wireless system, require equipment which are slightly larger than their wired counterparts; the required equipments are probably more
visibly intrusive, and are often considered to be the more expensive one relative to the hard-wired. However, though, often when you
compare, after the cost of the installation is factored in, it may turn out that getting the wireless system would be the cheaper and more cost
effective option, and that factor alone may, perhaps, make it seem worthwhile for you to want to pay the extra to get a wireless system.
Furthermore, consider this: There is, too, a security advantage in having a wireless system: any would-be burglars will NOT be able to cut
the alarm wires for this kind of system to disable it, since there are no wires, in this case, needing to be cut, to begin with. In wireless
system, the home owner's satisfaction will not have to be dependent on the skill level and quality of work of the installer, as is usually the
case with the hard-wired case.
8. High Basic Number of Sensors. Does the service offered by the company cover at least more than 3 sensors, preferably 10 or more of
them, at a reasonable and affordable cost, so as to cover ALL the entry points (doors/windows) on the ground level.
9. Wide Variety of Solutions. Does the company only offer just ONE type of monitoring security system solution? Or are they well-versed in
a number of different, flexible options that are offered still offered at affordable prices? (Having a variety of monitoring choices, rather than
just one or so, means that as a customer you can find the right home security programs that are flexible in fitting your specific needs).
10. Cost. What is the price it will cost you for the security company for the system – in “relative” or comparative terms?
NOTE: What this means, in home security system business, is very important. What it means, is that in dealings in the home security
business, sure it is important to be concerned about, and to ascertain, the cost factor. However, though, there is even another thing that’s
just as important that you should be equally concerned with – and that is, the differences (and there usually are plenty of such) in the range
of gadgets which each company is offering, and in the units and services that are connected to that.
11. Credible Industry Awards and/or Reviews. Are there any awards, commendations and/or reviews from respectable, objective home
security industry organizations, professionals, journals or review media or organs on the Company's Services.
12. Evidence that the Company is organized, Stable and trustworthy. For example, does the company use proper and securely identified
company technicians & field workers who are fully licensed? Does the company furnish its field technicians, who may atimes have to come to
your home to install or repair your home security systems, with authentic IDs and credentials? (NOTE: These are usually more relevant and
applicable for companies or systems that offer hard-wired monitoring system, but not for wireless systems).
13. Customer Service. Finally, last but not the least, of all the many, many factors to consider, this is perhaps the most important aspect in
any home security system program. When you compare home security system offers by different companies, it is of the utmost importance
according to industry experts, to be sure to check out diligently the quality of the customer services offered by each provider. This is a most
important aspect in comparing home security systems because, as one security expert succinctly put it, "a bad customer service could turn an
otherwise good home security buy into a nightmare."
THE YHWR SCORING, RATING SYSTEM
The FIRST 13 Criteria
The Your Honest Web Reviewers (YHWR) found approximately 13,500 businesses nationwide that operate and advertise on the Internet as
well as offline as home security outfits. First, we used the above-listed YHWR 13 Key Evaluation Criteria or KEC to evaluate them and rate
them. Through a methodology we call the "process of informed reasonable elimination," the number was brought down to the top 200, then
further down to the top 20, and down to the top 12 or dozen. All the companies involved were graded and rated on each of these KEC, to
narrow it down to this top 12. A value (a percentile value of from 0 -100) was assigned to each of the 13 criteria and scored for each
company on each criteria. Each company's scores were then added up on all 13 criteria to obtain an official YHWR Key Evaluation Criteria
value for each of the companies, and the ones whose scores ranked in the top 12, were the companies showing the highest scores.
The SECOND 7 Criteria
Finally, to determine the very top Number #1 company of all companies (the Number 1 ranked among our best 12), the Review team further
subjected these 12 outstanding companies to another rigorous evaluation based on these additional SECOND 7 criteria listed below:
- Written guarantee by a company for overall savings, and/or evidence of large amount of savings to client
- Service affordability for the average home owner or renter.
- Secure website.
- Customer satisfaction response times.
- How do the detection coverage and features offered by the companies compare, in terms of the per UNIT of cost
- Is customer reasonably able to speak with their customer service representative whenever they want or was necessary.
- Flexibility of the program for customers based on what a customer may have available or be able to afford on a monthly basis.
THE RESULTS?
First, the Findings on the POORLY RUN, RISKY, UNRELIABLE Home Security Companies - Frightening!
First, before explaining the companies ranked as the top 12, and giving the name of the company that emerged as the topmost Number #1
company of them all, we'd want first to say a few words about our findings on the large number of incompetent, poorly run and unreliable
home security companies that turned up in the industry in the study. It's actually nothing short of alarming! Our researchers identified some
13,500 outfits overall that operate in the United States as "alarm installing entities" (house security outfits). Of these, some 72.4% of the
operations we examined in our actual test sample (145 out of the top 200), ranked in the YHWR Key Evaluation Criteria at levels so poor and
pathetic, that those operations are simply unreliable, in deed dangerous, to the home owner or renter who would dare ever to buy such
home security programs from such a company.
In general, for a good deal of those companies, it's not so much that these outfits are outright scams or deliberate frauds in which the
operators of the outfits are deliberately out to cheat or defraud the customers out of their money. However, the problem primarily is that
such operations are just plain poorly run, are often manned by incompetent workers, poorly trained and unqualified technicians. And hence,
the home security services and equipments they offer customers are generally of poor and low quality, and, most importantly,
UNDEPENDABLE and UNRELIABLE - a factor that obviously is still very risky and important, nevertheless, given the fact that what
we're talking about, is the physical security and safety of people and their families and dear ones in their own homes!
Some of the Things Which These Poorly Run, RISKY, Unreliable Home Security Companies Have In Common.
They include the following:
- May NOT have wireless alarm system, but only a "hard wired" system - meaning the system that costs generally more. (Basically, there
are two major kinds of alarm systems, the wireless detectors and the "hard-wired" type. The wireless ones are active electronic
devices that are connected to the local alarm system via wireless transmission; while the “hard-wired” type, are systems that are
connected to the local alarm system with wires that run from each sensor and keypad to the central control panel, meaning that the
installation of this system will require that holes be drilled through the walls, running wires through those holes in the walls to install
the alarm)
- Such companies would often push upon the customer, home security equipments and hardware that tightly tie you just to one
monitoring service, cleverly going to great lengths not to ever mention to the prospective customer the fact that, actually, quality
security hardware is generally compatible across a range of brands and monitoring services, so a buyer can usually switch to another
quite easily, if he or she needs to, without having to buy all new equipment.
- Would have poor, shallow, uncaring and disrespectful treatment by the company salesperson. Sales reps are often pushy; would try to
load you up with the most expensive types of equipment possible as something necessary to have, and are often more interested in
‘making a quick buck’ than in providing real security for your family.
- May (some of them) try to lock you into more than normal multi-year contracts (say, 5 year contracts or more, as opposed to the more
usual 1 to 3 years) at expensive monthly rates (of say, over $50 per month) for a monitored service.
- May often have operators who are not trained, and with that may not be able to ask the proper and relevant questions in an
emergency; the monitoring service they have may NOT be one that is certified by the appropriate agencies, such as the state Burglar &
Fire Alarm Association, the local police, etc. And they may not have guaranteed response times, both to call customer's home when the
alarm goes off, and to call the police if there is a real problem.
- The company may not be one that exclusively handles home security; rather, the company may be providing other services, as well,
such as paging or answering services, thereby likely to create a lack of focus which could often lead to problems down the road for the
home security service aspects it provides.
Alright, those are pathetic findings, quite alright! But our reviewers have just got to call it EXACTLY like it is!
More Importantly, Here's the Good News!
The good news is, thank goodness, there are other options, there are good legitimate ones, available which we found. It's NOT all bad and
sloppy or unreliable operations at all, thank God!
THE TOP ONE DOZEN COMPANIES
IN THE HOME SECURITY FIELD
Using the rigorous YourHonestWebReviews.Com's Key Evaluation Criteria (KEC) and ranking system described above (the 13 first KEC) doing
the evaluation calculations, we determined that just 27.4% of the 200 in the sample companies we reviewed (55 of the 200) are legitimate
home security operations that are fairly responsible and dependable, although the detailed extent of the quality of the individual
performance level was variable in degree from one company to another. The top 12 companies in the industry, using the said first set of 13
evaluation criteria listed above, was then formulated.
They are the following (not in any particular order here):
The YourHonestWebReviews.Com's TOP DOZEN HOME SECURITY COMPANIES
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Common features of these TOP ONE DOZEN companies
Each one of these 12 companies that are scored as qualifying for the top one dozen companies, is actually a great home security company in
its own right, that has most of the industry credentials and the qualities that the Number 1 pick - which, we will now, for the first time, reveal
to be the Protect America company - also has. Each of them has roughly the same or equivalent quality of services and offer a comparable
range of home security equipments as Protect America offers - each would, for example, boast of having extensively trained and licensed
employees and emergency back-up facilities, just like the Protect America company; each belongs, like the Protect America company, to
respectable industry accreditation authorities, each has pretty good service delivery record with their home owner and renter customers, etc.
And, as a general proposition, each of them falling in the said top 12 companies rank, will not necessarily do a bad job of protecting your
family from burglars (or from other emergencies, such as fire or carbon monoxide, etc), and so on.
But EXCEPT for one factor, however: our review of the facts, based specifically on use of the YHWR Second 7 Criteria factors (see above),
which are criteria carefully designed to zero in and specifically evaluate and determine the BEST OF THE BEST or the Number 1 company
among of all of them, found one major fundamental difference - namely, that, “pound for pound,” when the exact home security services
offered by the companies are considered in terms of the per unit costs for their services, with the specific features of each item and what
exactly each unit is comprised of duly taken into account, Protect America comes out easily as the most cost-effective of all! And hence it
(the Protect America company) is the one that emerges as the YHWR Number One picked company in the entire home security business.
Some Specific Examples.........
For example, the ADT Home Security (based in Boca Raton, Florida), which is one of the companies that made it into the top 12 companies
rank, is a great company that possesses most of the industry credentials and the qualities that Protect America, the Number 1 pick, has,
including being a member in good standing of the SDM (Security Distributing Marketing) magazine's “100 Best” companies in the electronics
industry, and a member of the NBFAA, etc. It is the prime company among the “older and bigger” companies in the home security industry as
the oldest home security company in the United States with many decades in the business; it has by far the largest number of customers
(estimated to be 7 million) than any other company in the industry, and most people are familiar with this common name in the home security
industry; and like Protect America, it too offers good service plan that covers installation, as well as service and monitoring, a continual 24-
hour per day monitoring, or even free talking keypads, and so on and on.
However, our researchers' review of the actual data, shows that “pound for pound,” when the exact home security services offered by the
companies are considered in terms of the per unit cost for their services, with the specific features of each item and what exactly each unit is
comprised of duly taken into account, the Protect America company costs you less and saves you far more, and is easily the most cost-
effective - on a per unit of costs basis!
Or, take the Brinks Home Security company (based in Irving, Texas), which is also another of the companies making it into our YHWR top 12
companies rank, for another example. In terms of national companies, the Brinks company comes only next to the ADT as the two dominant
national companies in the American home security field, with the Brinks company coming a distant second (some 1 million customers,
nationwide, as compared to Protect America which has about a quarter of a million). [This compares to one quarter million of customers for the
Protect America, our Number #1 ranked company], and are as well gigantic companies with large revenue bases. And, again, the Brinks
company, just like the ADT (as well as the Protect America company), is a well established trusted names in America when it comes to home
security; as a company, it is a well-established home security company that will not necessarily do a bad job of protecting your family from
burglars (or from other emergencies, such as fire or carbon monoxide, etc), and so on. But here, just as well, the YHWR review found that the
Brinks company is in just about the same situation as the ADT is, relative to the Protect America. Like its counterpart, ADT, the Brinks company
is a great company with great industry credentials, and so on, alright.
In short, from our special review data, when compared side-by-side to Protect America, our Number 1 pick in our study, its (the Brinks')
program is substantially MORE EXPENSIVE than Protect America's - in terms of the per unit cost for the same level of service offered the
customer. Plus a few other differences.
THE BOTTOM LINE: In a word, it comes down to this: PROTECT AMERICA comes out on top as the overall Top Number #1 pick
because Protect America's services, though it's reasonably comparable in terms of quality and dependability, to the others in this top 12
category, is generally FAR LESS EXPENSIVE and gives a substantial COST SAVINGS for comparable quality of home protection than the rest of
the companies. Hence, dollar-for-dollar, and “pound for pound,” the Protect America program is simply the program that will bring YOU the
best bang for the buck! (Wish to check out this Protect America Company yourself right now? Click HERE).
Here Are Some Specific Qualities That Qualify this Number #1
Pick as Superior, Per Our Findings!
The following are some of the principal reasons and bases upon which the YourHonestWebReview.Com's top-rated online research and
review team scored the Round Rock Texas-based Protect America company as the Top Number #1 home security company in the entire United
States today.
A Record of Excellence....! A Record Compiled by the Number #1 rated company.....
1. It is a member, in good standing, of not just one, but two, of the recognized accreditation institutions for the home security industry. In
deed, it is among the top membership in both: a) The National Burglar & Fire Alarm Association (NBFAA); and/or b) The Security
Distributing & Marketing (SDM) magazine. It is not only a member in good standing with this institution, but also a member with top
ranking on its annual poll of the electronic industry “100 best” list, ranking as the Number #12 of the top 100 best on the 2009 listing. The
NBFAA (also called the Electronic Security Association), which is a non-profit 501(c) 6 trade association, is the nation's oldest, largest and
leading security industry organization dedicated to representing, promoting, and supporting over 70% of the multi-billion dollar electronic life
safety, security, and systems industry, including security and fire alarms, video surveillance, access control and monitoring, etc. While the SDM
is the premier independent journal for the security industry, and conducts the prestigious poll of the electronic industry's “100 best”
companies annually.
2. A High Reputation for the company. In the business of home security and home security analysis, perhaps the single most important
factor in comparing and choosing a system, is what is known as the DEPENDABILITY FACTOR. And Protect America clearly has a great deal
of that, from our through review of the data. For example, Protect America, Inc. has been around and been providing home security systems
since 1992, it has become one of the fastest growing security companies in America with over 250,000 families served nationwide. It is the
largest authorized installer of GE Home Security Systems, and has ranked in the Top 10 in volume of residential security system installations
for the last three years (data from the industry's SDM Magazine); and it is widely trusted as dependable according to confirmation of many of
its customers interviewed by YHWR reviewers, and as having experienced and efficient technicians and operators.
3. OFFERS MONITORED SYSTEM BUT ALSO A FLEXIBLE TYPE. Making smart use of today's changing communications technology, Protect
America offers, exclusively, monitored type of home security system. That is, one that has a technical and monitoring service on a 24 hour, 7
day a week basis, that will immediately call the authorities, such as the local police, if there is evidence of a problem in your home. But,
additionally, it offers a FLEXIBLE type of monitored system with their security system that offers you THREE different options, in contrast to
just ONE option that is often offered by most other companies (see next paragraph immediately below).
4. Offers THREE Different Monitoring Options, Not Just One, Like Most Other Companies. Through use of the best technology available to
expand the possibilities, Protect America offers THREE main monitoring options. And in contrast to that, most other comparable companies,
such as the ADT Security or Brinks, offer only ONE option. The three options are:
YHWR reviewers find in their interviews with customers, that with such a wide variety of choices available for consumers, Protect America
customers are generally readily able to find the right home security program that are flexible in fitting their specific needs, as well as budget.
5. System is Highly Reliable, High Quality Equipments. In terms of the equipments, the YHWR reviewers found the company's system to be
state-of-the-art home security system. Its equipments are General Electric (GE)-manufactured, a highly respected name in home security and
home equipment and appliance industry of long-standing repute. (Generally considered by security experts to compare very well with the
industry leader equipment brands that are used by counterparts like, say, the ADT or Brinks, whose equipments are, themselves,
manufactured by Honeywell's Ademco division).
Upon verification by YHWR reviewers, the Protect America system is UL (Underwriters Laboratories) listed and connected, and is connected
to a 24-hour monitoring center, thereby assuring that the equipments have undergone, and passed, the stringent standards and testing for
efficiency and durability required by this organization to approve goods, materials and equipments as up to acceptable standards. THE
SIGNIFICANCE: helps assure dependability and reliability of the equipments, which is a key factor in any security system. System includes a
maintenance plan that will cover both parts and service, each has a rechargeable backup battery that will keep the system operating in the
event of a power failure.
6. Long-Standing, Proven Company, Not a Fly-By-Night. Protect America was founded over 17 years ago (1982). One of the fastest growing
home security companies in recent times due to its innovative use of latest developments in communication technology, it is a well trusted
name in the security industry today, and has served over a quarter of a million customers nationwide.
7. Has Attracted Many Credible Industry Awards and/or Reviews. Protect America is not only a member in good standing with the Security
Distributing and Marketing (SDM) magazine, the premier security industry magazine that focuses on the security industry and related current
technology, networking, and skills, but is also a member with top ranking on its annual poll of the electronic industry “100 best list” ranking as
the Number #12 of the top 100 best on the 2009 listing, and at least among the top 10 in the last 3 years. Also, Protect America won the
prestigious Consumer Digest's "Best Buy" Award (for PA's Cooper Package) for home safety systems and Service for the August 2007 issue,
signifying that the offers are ones having excellent and affordable products and services.
8. High Quality Customer Service. Research data by the YHWR reviewers, show that of all the many, many factors needed in evaluating any
home security program by a company, the quality of customer service is probably the most important aspect. One home security expert
succinctly put it this way to our researchers: "a bad customer service could turn an otherwise good home security buy into a nightmare."
Among the YHWR researchers' findings on this, are the following:
9. Efficient Monitoring Service. A major finding of the YHWR researchers, is that probably the most important element in assessing the
effectiveness and reliability of a home security system, is simply this: evaluating the monitoring service of the system. Our researchers found,
upon actual testing and quality inspections in the field, that the key components of the hardware making up the company's security system in
customers' homes, actually perform very efficiently is very efficiently in operation - its sensors, for example, were able to detect intruders, its
control panels reliably "arm" (i.e., equip) and disarm the system, etc.
And then, the researchers further found, when tested, that when it comes time of real emergency, the Protect America system performed
efficiently in one area that the researchers found to be truly essential: the monitoring service of the system. (The reason this is so
considered to be that important, is because when your alarm sounds, for example, the company personnel has got to be DEPENDABLE and
efficient enough that it will ACTUALLY call you first, to see if there's a real problem. And then, they've got to be DEPENDABLE and efficient
enough that, if you tell the monitoring service that there's a problem, or if you don't answer, they will also ACTUALLY call the police. (Note that
false alarms are a real problem in the industry, as it is estimated that over 90% of calls are false alarms, and police departments do not take
kindly to being called out on those occasions).
In each instance of the actual field test conducted by the researchers, when the alarm sounded, the company monitoring personnel in
operation ACTUALLY responded and promptly called the target home owners and ascertained whether in fact there was a real problem. And,
when told there was a problem, or the home owner failed to answer, the monitoring personnel also ACTUALLY did call the area police
authorities to report the alarm. As verified, Protect America's monitoring service is generally certified by appropriate security agencies, such as
the Burglary & Fire Alarm Association of the state, the local police, and the like.
10. Offers Only Wireless System. Protect America offers ONLY wireless type of home security systems; it does not offer the "hard-
wired" type of system (the type that requires having wires passed through the home walls, and therefore needing that a paid
technician come to the customer's home to do the installation). Its wireless home security systems are designed to be installed by the
homeowner or renter himself. YHWR reviewers found the directions provided customers by the Protect America operatives, extremely
straightforward and easy to understand, and in case of any questions, the Protect America support staff is knowledgeable and friendly.
ADDITIONAL SOURCE OF SAVINGS: One reality uncovered in YHWR investigations, is that providing its customers with such type of a
wireless easy-to-instal home security system, is one of the special reasons for which the typical Protect America customer gets such HUGE
SAVINGS, as those monies (and they are often in the hundreds or even thousands of dollars for some), which the customer would have had
to pay to an installer, are retained by the customer himself.
The basic offers by the company, is a choice of FIVE home security plans, all of them wireless (see below), each of which plan comes with a
good list of basic equipment components that include the following: 1. Talking Control Panel/Keypads; 2. Door/Window Sensors; 3. Motion
Detectors; 4. Internal (Interior) Siren and Door Chime; 5. Battery Backup; 6. One Button Arming, Lifetime Warranties; 7. Window Decals and a
Yard Sign.
11. Has the Best Cost/Price Per Unit of Service Received by Customers. Findings by our YHWR reviewers conclusively show that the
Protect America's most popular program, it's Cooper and Silver package deals, are widely regarded even in the industry as the "best buy"
for customers for home safety systems and services. (August 2007 Consumer Digest's Best Buy magazine award to the company for the
program, called the company "dedicated towards offering excellent and affordable products and services," and the security program as
"offering home security customers one of the best values available in the market place."). Assessed in relative terms - that is, in terms of the
relative values of the differences (and there usually are plenty of such) in the range of gadgets which each company is offering, and in the
units and services that are connected to that - the company's Cooper and Silver packages have been found to be the least expensive BEST
BUY for home security services buyers and for consumers.
12. Customers Pay Less & Make Far Greater Savings On Extras They May Need
Here's yet another Area of Savings for Protect America Customers shown by our YHWR review study - far lesser costs for "optional" or extra
equipments or services. As with the other home security companies, the "standard" or basic program of Protect America (and the price tag
with which it is associated), is BURGLARY and home intrusion protection that monitor the home's perimeter doors and windows. However,
additional or "optional" equipments for other areas of security (fire, carbon monoxide poisoning, medical emergency, flooding, property
damage, etc.), are available for purchase at extra cost by consumers who may need or want them. Further more, additionally, special motion
detectors can be ordered (also at extra charge) by a customer, and installed to monitor interior areas, as opposed to just the perimeter areas.
However, per the research data, the YHWR reviewers found that these additional or optional services that are offered by Protect America, are
offered at rates CONSIDERABLY LESS and more affordable, and which, in fact, only amount to just a fraction of what the ADT, the Brinks, and
any of the other 12 Top Companies on our list offer for their own brands.
NOTE: More in savings. Call it "bonus" or "discount" savings, but there is still, further, savings to be made by you. After your home security
system is activated, Protect America will usually send you a "Certificate of Installation." And as a rule, most insurance companies will give you
a special discount on what you'll normally have to pay on your home owner's or renter's insurance premiums for a home for which you can
show that you have a credible monitored security system in place for it - runs approximately 20% or more in reduction of your insurance
premium cost. Hence, this is yet another way, really a great way, that your home security monitoring system can actually save you real
money, as putting in for such a home security system can qualify you for your reduced insurance premium rates. So, say, you pay the typical
amount of about $30-$35/month for your home security monitoring fee. After taking into account the “discount” allowance they’ll give you for
having a home security system, you may be saving about $20 per month or more on your insurance policy, thus meaning that you'll be left
with just an extra $10-$15 to per month to pay on your whole home security system. (This could actually be called "the real cost of home
security system." Thus, be sure, when purchasing your home security system, remember to consider these savings - which are real - as part
of what you stand to gain, as well).
AND THEN STILL MORE.....
Finally, the most outstanding advantage of all ....What Quality Makes Protect America Number #1 above all.....
13. Company Offers Largest Number of ELECTRONIC SENSORS than Any, for the Same Unit Cost . Just take a brief pause. Take that
second to take a look at the price and service comparisons below between just those two topnotch home security companies as against the
Protect America. Say, between the ADT (or Brinks) and Protect America. (See below).
HERE'S ONE IMPORTANT THING YOU'D IMMEDIATELY SEE: by and large, the prices for the basic or "standard" home security program
that most of these top notch companies provide, are based on having just THREE sensors or so for the home. Just THREE or so. (Sensors
are virtually the heart and soul of the alarm-based home security monitoring system - these are the detectors that do the actual 'security' for
an alarm system, as they are the items used in the "entry points" like the windows and doors and other contact areas, to tell if one is open or
being breached).
There's one basic problem with this, however, for the average consumer. According to experts, for a home (or rental apartment) to have the
most reliable and effective security protection, it will need to have the whole house interior (i.e., the entry points) on the ground floor,
protected. Basically, this will mean that (for users of the magnetic kind of sensors, which is the usual type or sensors generally used), you
should have SENSORS placed on each and every entry point of the house - that is, on every door and every window, at least on the ground
floor in the property. YHWR reviewers found, therefore, that this basically means that most such "standard" home security plans that are
offered by these other topnotch companies like ADT, Brinks and others, which usually come with only 3 or so sensors (and then you will have
to either upgrade to a higher priced unit altogether, if you find that you'll need more for your house, or purchase additional sensors), are
generally too inadequate as they will not be sufficient in number to cover ALL the number of entry points contained in the average home. And
that so, for most homes, the number of sensors the average home owner will require in order to cover ALL the entry points (all the doors and
windows, etc) on their ground level, can quickly add up to a number far in excess of the number of sensors that these companies offer in their
"standard" home security plans - that is, usually some three sensors or so ONLY.
(NOTE: As a home owner, if you need or prefer a system that has not only the house interior secured, but also
the yard and outer buildings, as well, you will have to order that option, at higher prices at which they are offered).
Read on......See Why, in Deed this, EXACTLY, is What Makes the Protect America the VERY BEST of ALL....
In consequence, it is largely on the basis of the above stated array of HARD FACTS and FINDINGS, as fully verified by YHWR researchers, that
we readily rank the home security program offered by the Protect America as THE TOP NUMBER #1 RANKED in the whole United States.
HERE'S YOUR BEST VALUE OF THEM ALL. As duly assessed by the researchers, there is ONE plan out of the whole 5 plans that are offered
by the Protect America company (see the Table below) which most particularly offers the "best value" of all than any offered by any other
credible, reliable company in the industry - the SILVER plan or package. For a simple, straightforward illustration of this, just take a close look
at the Table below. Look at the plan that's designated there as the "Silver package." This plan offers you (the customer) a package
containing 10 entry point sensors. And, using two of the country's topnotch home security companies, ADT and Brinks, just to illustrate the
point of the researchers' findings, go across the same column on the Table and compare the costs charged by these other two high echelon
companies as against what Protect America charges for the same 10 sensors (Silver) service plan.
CONCLUSION: The Protect America plan, most particularly its Silver package, with its large number of 10 sensors, offers, by far, a
superior and much BETTER VALUE in home security systems for the average home owner today, and is a much more COST-EFFECTIVE
investment for the average American consumer than any others. With its fairly large number of sensors, it has sensors large enough in
number to be able to cover almost ALL the essential entry points that the average home should have on its ground level structure for
optimum protection, and thus would not require that the home owner incur any further extra costs beyond his initial cost. (For the renter or
an apartment dweller or urban resident, the company's "Cooper" package, which contains only 3 entry point sensors, may still be the best
value).
Simply summed up, it could be rightly stated that except for the extremely competitive, nominal monthly service charge you'll pay just for
keeping the home alarm monitoring system going (just $35.99 per month in this particular instance), with Protect America plan and its Silver
package deal, it will cost you virtually nothing (virtually COST-FREE) for you to have a high level and reliable home security service with a
leading national company using that company. No initial, upfront out-of-pocket costs by you for the security equipments - absolutely ZERO or
COST-FREE, for the alarm, monitoring and other equipments. No monthly charges for equipment warranty costs ZERO or COST-FREE. That
contrasts with nearly $900 (in this particular instance) that you'll have to pay in upfront costs with ADT, or $680 with Brinks, and $6 that
you'll have to pay per month for warranty charges under their plans.
Each one of these 12 companies that are scored as qualifying for the top one dozen companies, is actually a great home security company in
its own right, that has most of the industry credentials and the qualities that the Number 1 pick - which, we will now, for the first time, reveal
to be the Protect America company - also has. Each of them has roughly the same or equivalent quality of services and offer a comparable
range of home security equipments as Protect America offers - each would, for example, boast of having extensively trained and licensed
employees and emergency back-up facilities, just like the Protect America company; each belongs, like the Protect America company, to
respectable industry accreditation authorities, each has pretty good service delivery record with their home owner and renter customers, etc.
And, as a general proposition, each of them falling in the said top 12 companies rank, will not necessarily do a bad job of protecting your
family from burglars (or from other emergencies, such as fire or carbon monoxide, etc), and so on.
But EXCEPT for one factor, however: our review of the facts, based specifically on use of the YHWR Second 7 Criteria factors (see above),
which are criteria carefully designed to zero in and specifically evaluate and determine the BEST OF THE BEST or the Number 1 company
among of all of them, found one major fundamental difference - namely, that, “pound for pound,” when the exact home security services
offered by the companies are considered in terms of the per unit costs for their services, with the specific features of each item and what
exactly each unit is comprised of duly taken into account, Protect America comes out easily as the most cost-effective of all! And hence it
(the Protect America company) is the one that emerges as the YHWR Number One picked company in the entire home security business.
Some Specific Examples.........
For example, the ADT Home Security (based in Boca Raton, Florida), which is one of the companies that made it into the top 12 companies
rank, is a great company that possesses most of the industry credentials and the qualities that Protect America, the Number 1 pick, has,
including being a member in good standing of the SDM (Security Distributing Marketing) magazine's “100 Best” companies in the electronics
industry, and a member of the NBFAA, etc. It is the prime company among the “older and bigger” companies in the home security industry as
the oldest home security company in the United States with many decades in the business; it has by far the largest number of customers
(estimated to be 7 million) than any other company in the industry, and most people are familiar with this common name in the home security
industry; and like Protect America, it too offers good service plan that covers installation, as well as service and monitoring, a continual 24-
hour per day monitoring, or even free talking keypads, and so on and on.
However, our researchers' review of the actual data, shows that “pound for pound,” when the exact home security services offered by the
companies are considered in terms of the per unit cost for their services, with the specific features of each item and what exactly each unit is
comprised of duly taken into account, the Protect America company costs you less and saves you far more, and is easily the most cost-
effective - on a per unit of costs basis!
Or, take the Brinks Home Security company (based in Irving, Texas), which is also another of the companies making it into our YHWR top 12
companies rank, for another example. In terms of national companies, the Brinks company comes only next to the ADT as the two dominant
national companies in the American home security field, with the Brinks company coming a distant second (some 1 million customers,
nationwide, as compared to Protect America which has about a quarter of a million). [This compares to one quarter million of customers for the
Protect America, our Number #1 ranked company], and are as well gigantic companies with large revenue bases. And, again, the Brinks
company, just like the ADT (as well as the Protect America company), is a well established trusted names in America when it comes to home
security; as a company, it is a well-established home security company that will not necessarily do a bad job of protecting your family from
burglars (or from other emergencies, such as fire or carbon monoxide, etc), and so on. But here, just as well, the YHWR review found that the
Brinks company is in just about the same situation as the ADT is, relative to the Protect America. Like its counterpart, ADT, the Brinks company
is a great company with great industry credentials, and so on, alright.
In short, from our special review data, when compared side-by-side to Protect America, our Number 1 pick in our study, its (the Brinks')
program is substantially MORE EXPENSIVE than Protect America's - in terms of the per unit cost for the same level of service offered the
customer. Plus a few other differences.
THE BOTTOM LINE: In a word, it comes down to this: PROTECT AMERICA comes out on top as the overall Top Number #1 pick
because Protect America's services, though it's reasonably comparable in terms of quality and dependability, to the others in this top 12
category, is generally FAR LESS EXPENSIVE and gives a substantial COST SAVINGS for comparable quality of home protection than the rest of
the companies. Hence, dollar-for-dollar, and “pound for pound,” the Protect America program is simply the program that will bring YOU the
best bang for the buck! (Wish to check out this Protect America Company yourself right now? Click HERE).
Here Are Some Specific Qualities That Qualify this Number #1
Pick as Superior, Per Our Findings!
The following are some of the principal reasons and bases upon which the YourHonestWebReview.Com's top-rated online research and
review team scored the Round Rock Texas-based Protect America company as the Top Number #1 home security company in the entire United
States today.
A Record of Excellence....! A Record Compiled by the Number #1 rated company.....
1. It is a member, in good standing, of not just one, but two, of the recognized accreditation institutions for the home security industry. In
deed, it is among the top membership in both: a) The National Burglar & Fire Alarm Association (NBFAA); and/or b) The Security
Distributing & Marketing (SDM) magazine. It is not only a member in good standing with this institution, but also a member with top
ranking on its annual poll of the electronic industry “100 best” list, ranking as the Number #12 of the top 100 best on the 2009 listing. The
NBFAA (also called the Electronic Security Association), which is a non-profit 501(c) 6 trade association, is the nation's oldest, largest and
leading security industry organization dedicated to representing, promoting, and supporting over 70% of the multi-billion dollar electronic life
safety, security, and systems industry, including security and fire alarms, video surveillance, access control and monitoring, etc. While the SDM
is the premier independent journal for the security industry, and conducts the prestigious poll of the electronic industry's “100 best”
companies annually.
2. A High Reputation for the company. In the business of home security and home security analysis, perhaps the single most important
factor in comparing and choosing a system, is what is known as the DEPENDABILITY FACTOR. And Protect America clearly has a great deal
of that, from our through review of the data. For example, Protect America, Inc. has been around and been providing home security systems
since 1992, it has become one of the fastest growing security companies in America with over 250,000 families served nationwide. It is the
largest authorized installer of GE Home Security Systems, and has ranked in the Top 10 in volume of residential security system installations
for the last three years (data from the industry's SDM Magazine); and it is widely trusted as dependable according to confirmation of many of
its customers interviewed by YHWR reviewers, and as having experienced and efficient technicians and operators.
3. OFFERS MONITORED SYSTEM BUT ALSO A FLEXIBLE TYPE. Making smart use of today's changing communications technology, Protect
America offers, exclusively, monitored type of home security system. That is, one that has a technical and monitoring service on a 24 hour, 7
day a week basis, that will immediately call the authorities, such as the local police, if there is evidence of a problem in your home. But,
additionally, it offers a FLEXIBLE type of monitored system with their security system that offers you THREE different options, in contrast to
just ONE option that is often offered by most other companies (see next paragraph immediately below).
4. Offers THREE Different Monitoring Options, Not Just One, Like Most Other Companies. Through use of the best technology available to
expand the possibilities, Protect America offers THREE main monitoring options. And in contrast to that, most other comparable companies,
such as the ADT Security or Brinks, offer only ONE option. The three options are:
- Landline Option - Enables the security system in the home to communicate to the monitoring facility through the telephone line. This is
the original way to monitor a home security system and for most companies, still the only option offered to customers; upon the alarm
sounding, the security system sends a signal through the phone line to the monitoring facility.
- Broadband Option - Are you a home owner or renter who uses cell phones as a primary source of contact? Then this will be perfect for
you since in this option, a landline telephone will not be required; the master control panel of the security system plugs into an
available port on your modem or router, instead of a telephone line in order to connect the home and the monitoring facility, and upon
the alarm sounding, the security system sends a signal through the Broadband Internet connection to the monitoring facility. - Two-way voice Option - In this, the command station for the security system acts as an intercom that connects the household directly
to the monitoring facility through the telephone line, and when an alarm goes off, instead of calling over the phone, the monitoring
facility can speak directly over the intercom to check on the situation, or to contact the local authorities, if there's real emergency.
YHWR reviewers find in their interviews with customers, that with such a wide variety of choices available for consumers, Protect America
customers are generally readily able to find the right home security program that are flexible in fitting their specific needs, as well as budget.
5. System is Highly Reliable, High Quality Equipments. In terms of the equipments, the YHWR reviewers found the company's system to be
state-of-the-art home security system. Its equipments are General Electric (GE)-manufactured, a highly respected name in home security and
home equipment and appliance industry of long-standing repute. (Generally considered by security experts to compare very well with the
industry leader equipment brands that are used by counterparts like, say, the ADT or Brinks, whose equipments are, themselves,
manufactured by Honeywell's Ademco division).
Upon verification by YHWR reviewers, the Protect America system is UL (Underwriters Laboratories) listed and connected, and is connected
to a 24-hour monitoring center, thereby assuring that the equipments have undergone, and passed, the stringent standards and testing for
efficiency and durability required by this organization to approve goods, materials and equipments as up to acceptable standards. THE
SIGNIFICANCE: helps assure dependability and reliability of the equipments, which is a key factor in any security system. System includes a
maintenance plan that will cover both parts and service, each has a rechargeable backup battery that will keep the system operating in the
event of a power failure.
6. Long-Standing, Proven Company, Not a Fly-By-Night. Protect America was founded over 17 years ago (1982). One of the fastest growing
home security companies in recent times due to its innovative use of latest developments in communication technology, it is a well trusted
name in the security industry today, and has served over a quarter of a million customers nationwide.
7. Has Attracted Many Credible Industry Awards and/or Reviews. Protect America is not only a member in good standing with the Security
Distributing and Marketing (SDM) magazine, the premier security industry magazine that focuses on the security industry and related current
technology, networking, and skills, but is also a member with top ranking on its annual poll of the electronic industry “100 best list” ranking as
the Number #12 of the top 100 best on the 2009 listing, and at least among the top 10 in the last 3 years. Also, Protect America won the
prestigious Consumer Digest's "Best Buy" Award (for PA's Cooper Package) for home safety systems and Service for the August 2007 issue,
signifying that the offers are ones having excellent and affordable products and services.
8. High Quality Customer Service. Research data by the YHWR reviewers, show that of all the many, many factors needed in evaluating any
home security program by a company, the quality of customer service is probably the most important aspect. One home security expert
succinctly put it this way to our researchers: "a bad customer service could turn an otherwise good home security buy into a nightmare."
Among the YHWR researchers' findings on this, are the following:
- In home security business, a principal factor in assessing the quality of the company's customer service, is the monitoring service of
the system. - YHWR reviewers positively verified that company technicians' field workers employed by the Protect America company, are fully licensed
and properly identified; its field technicians who may have to come to your home to install or repair your home security systems, are
fully furnished with authentic IDs and credentials. (NOTE: These are usually more relevant and applicable for companies or systems that
offer "hard-wired" type of monitoring system, but not for wireless systems). - You don't have to deal with any annoying dealers or salesmen in order to purchase and install an effective home security system. No
one will come to your home and attempt to sell you more than you need. Instead, the Protect America toll-free service department
delivers good information so you can make an informed decision without having to deal with the pushy salesman.
- Detailed background checks and interviews of the company personnel by YHWR reviewers, as well as of the customers, show that the
workers and technicians are highly experienced, alert, prompt to respond, sensitive, eager to help, understanding, flexible, previously
tested and proven to be physically safe and reliable to come into or to work around customers' homes and families, if and when they
should need to, and courteous to customers, etc.
9. Efficient Monitoring Service. A major finding of the YHWR researchers, is that probably the most important element in assessing the
effectiveness and reliability of a home security system, is simply this: evaluating the monitoring service of the system. Our researchers found,
upon actual testing and quality inspections in the field, that the key components of the hardware making up the company's security system in
customers' homes, actually perform very efficiently is very efficiently in operation - its sensors, for example, were able to detect intruders, its
control panels reliably "arm" (i.e., equip) and disarm the system, etc.
And then, the researchers further found, when tested, that when it comes time of real emergency, the Protect America system performed
efficiently in one area that the researchers found to be truly essential: the monitoring service of the system. (The reason this is so
considered to be that important, is because when your alarm sounds, for example, the company personnel has got to be DEPENDABLE and
efficient enough that it will ACTUALLY call you first, to see if there's a real problem. And then, they've got to be DEPENDABLE and efficient
enough that, if you tell the monitoring service that there's a problem, or if you don't answer, they will also ACTUALLY call the police. (Note that
false alarms are a real problem in the industry, as it is estimated that over 90% of calls are false alarms, and police departments do not take
kindly to being called out on those occasions).
In each instance of the actual field test conducted by the researchers, when the alarm sounded, the company monitoring personnel in
operation ACTUALLY responded and promptly called the target home owners and ascertained whether in fact there was a real problem. And,
when told there was a problem, or the home owner failed to answer, the monitoring personnel also ACTUALLY did call the area police
authorities to report the alarm. As verified, Protect America's monitoring service is generally certified by appropriate security agencies, such as
the Burglary & Fire Alarm Association of the state, the local police, and the like.
10. Offers Only Wireless System. Protect America offers ONLY wireless type of home security systems; it does not offer the "hard-
wired" type of system (the type that requires having wires passed through the home walls, and therefore needing that a paid
technician come to the customer's home to do the installation). Its wireless home security systems are designed to be installed by the
homeowner or renter himself. YHWR reviewers found the directions provided customers by the Protect America operatives, extremely
straightforward and easy to understand, and in case of any questions, the Protect America support staff is knowledgeable and friendly.
ADDITIONAL SOURCE OF SAVINGS: One reality uncovered in YHWR investigations, is that providing its customers with such type of a
wireless easy-to-instal home security system, is one of the special reasons for which the typical Protect America customer gets such HUGE
SAVINGS, as those monies (and they are often in the hundreds or even thousands of dollars for some), which the customer would have had
to pay to an installer, are retained by the customer himself.
The basic offers by the company, is a choice of FIVE home security plans, all of them wireless (see below), each of which plan comes with a
good list of basic equipment components that include the following: 1. Talking Control Panel/Keypads; 2. Door/Window Sensors; 3. Motion
Detectors; 4. Internal (Interior) Siren and Door Chime; 5. Battery Backup; 6. One Button Arming, Lifetime Warranties; 7. Window Decals and a
Yard Sign.
11. Has the Best Cost/Price Per Unit of Service Received by Customers. Findings by our YHWR reviewers conclusively show that the
Protect America's most popular program, it's Cooper and Silver package deals, are widely regarded even in the industry as the "best buy"
for customers for home safety systems and services. (August 2007 Consumer Digest's Best Buy magazine award to the company for the
program, called the company "dedicated towards offering excellent and affordable products and services," and the security program as
"offering home security customers one of the best values available in the market place."). Assessed in relative terms - that is, in terms of the
relative values of the differences (and there usually are plenty of such) in the range of gadgets which each company is offering, and in the
units and services that are connected to that - the company's Cooper and Silver packages have been found to be the least expensive BEST
BUY for home security services buyers and for consumers.
12. Customers Pay Less & Make Far Greater Savings On Extras They May Need
Here's yet another Area of Savings for Protect America Customers shown by our YHWR review study - far lesser costs for "optional" or extra
equipments or services. As with the other home security companies, the "standard" or basic program of Protect America (and the price tag
with which it is associated), is BURGLARY and home intrusion protection that monitor the home's perimeter doors and windows. However,
additional or "optional" equipments for other areas of security (fire, carbon monoxide poisoning, medical emergency, flooding, property
damage, etc.), are available for purchase at extra cost by consumers who may need or want them. Further more, additionally, special motion
detectors can be ordered (also at extra charge) by a customer, and installed to monitor interior areas, as opposed to just the perimeter areas.
However, per the research data, the YHWR reviewers found that these additional or optional services that are offered by Protect America, are
offered at rates CONSIDERABLY LESS and more affordable, and which, in fact, only amount to just a fraction of what the ADT, the Brinks, and
any of the other 12 Top Companies on our list offer for their own brands.
NOTE: More in savings. Call it "bonus" or "discount" savings, but there is still, further, savings to be made by you. After your home security
system is activated, Protect America will usually send you a "Certificate of Installation." And as a rule, most insurance companies will give you
a special discount on what you'll normally have to pay on your home owner's or renter's insurance premiums for a home for which you can
show that you have a credible monitored security system in place for it - runs approximately 20% or more in reduction of your insurance
premium cost. Hence, this is yet another way, really a great way, that your home security monitoring system can actually save you real
money, as putting in for such a home security system can qualify you for your reduced insurance premium rates. So, say, you pay the typical
amount of about $30-$35/month for your home security monitoring fee. After taking into account the “discount” allowance they’ll give you for
having a home security system, you may be saving about $20 per month or more on your insurance policy, thus meaning that you'll be left
with just an extra $10-$15 to per month to pay on your whole home security system. (This could actually be called "the real cost of home
security system." Thus, be sure, when purchasing your home security system, remember to consider these savings - which are real - as part
of what you stand to gain, as well).
AND THEN STILL MORE.....
Finally, the most outstanding advantage of all ....What Quality Makes Protect America Number #1 above all.....
13. Company Offers Largest Number of ELECTRONIC SENSORS than Any, for the Same Unit Cost . Just take a brief pause. Take that
second to take a look at the price and service comparisons below between just those two topnotch home security companies as against the
Protect America. Say, between the ADT (or Brinks) and Protect America. (See below).
HERE'S ONE IMPORTANT THING YOU'D IMMEDIATELY SEE: by and large, the prices for the basic or "standard" home security program
that most of these top notch companies provide, are based on having just THREE sensors or so for the home. Just THREE or so. (Sensors
are virtually the heart and soul of the alarm-based home security monitoring system - these are the detectors that do the actual 'security' for
an alarm system, as they are the items used in the "entry points" like the windows and doors and other contact areas, to tell if one is open or
being breached).
There's one basic problem with this, however, for the average consumer. According to experts, for a home (or rental apartment) to have the
most reliable and effective security protection, it will need to have the whole house interior (i.e., the entry points) on the ground floor,
protected. Basically, this will mean that (for users of the magnetic kind of sensors, which is the usual type or sensors generally used), you
should have SENSORS placed on each and every entry point of the house - that is, on every door and every window, at least on the ground
floor in the property. YHWR reviewers found, therefore, that this basically means that most such "standard" home security plans that are
offered by these other topnotch companies like ADT, Brinks and others, which usually come with only 3 or so sensors (and then you will have
to either upgrade to a higher priced unit altogether, if you find that you'll need more for your house, or purchase additional sensors), are
generally too inadequate as they will not be sufficient in number to cover ALL the number of entry points contained in the average home. And
that so, for most homes, the number of sensors the average home owner will require in order to cover ALL the entry points (all the doors and
windows, etc) on their ground level, can quickly add up to a number far in excess of the number of sensors that these companies offer in their
"standard" home security plans - that is, usually some three sensors or so ONLY.
(NOTE: As a home owner, if you need or prefer a system that has not only the house interior secured, but also
the yard and outer buildings, as well, you will have to order that option, at higher prices at which they are offered).
Read on......See Why, in Deed this, EXACTLY, is What Makes the Protect America the VERY BEST of ALL....
In consequence, it is largely on the basis of the above stated array of HARD FACTS and FINDINGS, as fully verified by YHWR researchers, that
we readily rank the home security program offered by the Protect America as THE TOP NUMBER #1 RANKED in the whole United States.
HERE'S YOUR BEST VALUE OF THEM ALL. As duly assessed by the researchers, there is ONE plan out of the whole 5 plans that are offered
by the Protect America company (see the Table below) which most particularly offers the "best value" of all than any offered by any other
credible, reliable company in the industry - the SILVER plan or package. For a simple, straightforward illustration of this, just take a close look
at the Table below. Look at the plan that's designated there as the "Silver package." This plan offers you (the customer) a package
containing 10 entry point sensors. And, using two of the country's topnotch home security companies, ADT and Brinks, just to illustrate the
point of the researchers' findings, go across the same column on the Table and compare the costs charged by these other two high echelon
companies as against what Protect America charges for the same 10 sensors (Silver) service plan.
CONCLUSION: The Protect America plan, most particularly its Silver package, with its large number of 10 sensors, offers, by far, a
superior and much BETTER VALUE in home security systems for the average home owner today, and is a much more COST-EFFECTIVE
investment for the average American consumer than any others. With its fairly large number of sensors, it has sensors large enough in
number to be able to cover almost ALL the essential entry points that the average home should have on its ground level structure for
optimum protection, and thus would not require that the home owner incur any further extra costs beyond his initial cost. (For the renter or
an apartment dweller or urban resident, the company's "Cooper" package, which contains only 3 entry point sensors, may still be the best
value).
Simply summed up, it could be rightly stated that except for the extremely competitive, nominal monthly service charge you'll pay just for
keeping the home alarm monitoring system going (just $35.99 per month in this particular instance), with Protect America plan and its Silver
package deal, it will cost you virtually nothing (virtually COST-FREE) for you to have a high level and reliable home security service with a
leading national company using that company. No initial, upfront out-of-pocket costs by you for the security equipments - absolutely ZERO or
COST-FREE, for the alarm, monitoring and other equipments. No monthly charges for equipment warranty costs ZERO or COST-FREE. That
contrasts with nearly $900 (in this particular instance) that you'll have to pay in upfront costs with ADT, or $680 with Brinks, and $6 that
you'll have to pay per month for warranty charges under their plans.
(NOTE: Information for above Table as compiled through phone and the Internet by the YHWR research team as of 11/1/09).
THE BOTTOM LINE: In a word, as you can see from the above Table, it comes down to this: From our findings, Protect America comes out
on top as the overall Top Number #1 pick in the whole America - because Protect America's services, though it's reasonably comparable,
even superior in some respects, in terms of quality and dependability, to the others in the very top echelon of the industry leaders, is generally
FAR LESS EXPENSIVE and gives the consumer a huge COST SAVINGS for comparable level of home protection than the rest of the companies.
Hence, dollar-for-dollar, and “pound for pound,” the Protect America program is simply the program that will bring YOU the best bang for the
buck! (Wish to check out this Protect America Company yourself right now? Click HERE).
And there are still MORE on Protect America's Profile & Superior Qualities.......
Is Recipient, Consumers Digest "Best Buy" Award - Protect America was the prestigious Consumers Digest's
"Best Buy" Award Recipient for home safety systems and services announced in the August 2007 issue. The
award designation identifies the very best of the best in product quality, customer service, and overall value to
the consumer. For example, only fewer than 3% of the thousands of products that are submitted each year for
evaluation are evaluated by the Consumers Digest as meeting the quality and value standards required by their
editors to receive a "Best Buy" designation. Plus, in order to be considered for the Best Buy designation, a
product or service must be offered by a trusted company with a well-established reputation in their industry.
Consumers Digest, says that its "Best Buy" designation award recipient "is defined as a product that offers the most value for a given amount
of money. It's not necessarily the least expensive product in its category, nor does it mean it is the best-known brand," as it adds that such
item must be "a nationally available product [or service] identified as one that merits special attention from consumers based on its
combination of performance, ease-of-use, features, durability, warranty, efficiency, styling, and maintenance and servicing requirements."
Is Underwriters Laboratories-listed (UL) - Protect America's home security monitoring centers and security equipments
are designated as meeting the high standards of the Underwriters Laboratories (U.L). One of the most trusted consumer
symbols in the world, Underwriters Laboratories is an independent testing organization that sets quality and use
standards for electronic and consumer products. U.L.-listed monitoring centers must comply with strict operating
guidelines and rigorous annual inspections
Has Membership in Good Standing, at High Level, In the Industry's SDM. Protect America is not only a member in
good standing with the Security Distributing and Marketing (SDM) magazine, the premier security industry magazine
that focuses on the security industry and related current technology, networking, and skills, but is also a member
with top ranking, having ranked among the top 10 in the last 3 years on its annual poll of the electronic industry
“100 best list” ranking.
ANOTHER TOP REVIEWER RANKS THE SAME
COMPANY NUMBER #1, TOO!
Recently, editors at the TopConsumerReviews.Com
(http://www.topconsumerreviews.com), one of the select, respectable truly independent
providers of objective reviews and rankings of consumer products and services, gave
Protect America its prestigious highest ranking award in recognition of the exceptional
quality of Protect America's services and the performance of the company as a national
home security company - a 5-Star rating (the highest given). It has, in fact, been the
recipient of this prized award for the last TWO YEARS IN A ROW - 2008 & 2009.
In making the award to Protect America, the TopConsumerReviews called the company
"the best choice for home security protection...at extremely affordable prices," and
said of the company:
“Protect America provides the best home security solution available today. Their state-of-the-art equipment and nationwide monitoring
system [are] topnotch.” It adds that “Protect America sets the standard for home security systems. They offer a variety of packages that
provide cutting edge technology and reliable nationwide monitoring. Combined with customer-focused pricing and knowledgeable support,
Protect America is your best choice for home security protection. …provides a state-of-the-art, reliable home security system at extremely
affordable prices."
How PROTECT AMERICA GOT TO ITS PRESENT INDUSTRY POSITION OF BECOMING THE BEST.
Basically, Protect America jumped to being “the Best of the Best” through rapid technology growth. True, in the multi-billion dollar world of
modern home security industry, the older, more traditional, and better-known brands, such as the brands sold by the ADT and the Brinks
security companies, for example, have long dominated the field. These are “older or bigger” companies, and are companies that have,
historically, enjoyed a number of different advantages over many of the newer and younger generation companies in terms of their security
methods, the product quality they offer, a more thorough service plan that covers installation as well as service and monitoring, bigger
customer base, and far bigger budget base. However, according to our YHWR researchers' findings, while some of these newer generation
companies have in the past attempted to compete with such older and bigger companies in the industry, only recently has any of these newer
companies been able to do so effectively, especially by way of putting up effective competition and offering comparable, or, in some cases even
better, grade quality of home security packages relative to what these more traditional companies offer.
The PRINCIPAL company among such newer generation challengers, according to our YHWR researchers findings, has been the Protect America
company. In this, the Protect America company has been aided in large part by the use of the latest and most advanced in today’s changing
communications technology as a kind of “equalizer” in catching up with the bigger, richer, older companies. Protect America has rapidly
developed a reputation as the bold industry maverick and innovator that has developed an array of specialized security technologies and
programs at prices that are relatively less expensive and more affordable for almost every American family, in comparison to what the other
first rate quality companies offer. That is, in terms of being flexible, having low-cost home security monitoring options that seem specifically
designed with meeting the average home owner’s needs and budget in mind, etc. In short, the high advancement of technology employed by
the Protect America, has brought the price for Protect America's programs dramatically down to the point that it has made home security
systems highly affordable and within reach for the common American home owner or renter.
THE BOTTOM LINE: In a word, as you can see from the above Table, it comes down to this: From our findings, Protect America comes out
on top as the overall Top Number #1 pick in the whole America - because Protect America's services, though it's reasonably comparable,
even superior in some respects, in terms of quality and dependability, to the others in the very top echelon of the industry leaders, is generally
FAR LESS EXPENSIVE and gives the consumer a huge COST SAVINGS for comparable level of home protection than the rest of the companies.
Hence, dollar-for-dollar, and “pound for pound,” the Protect America program is simply the program that will bring YOU the best bang for the
buck! (Wish to check out this Protect America Company yourself right now? Click HERE).
And there are still MORE on Protect America's Profile & Superior Qualities.......
Is Recipient, Consumers Digest "Best Buy" Award - Protect America was the prestigious Consumers Digest's
"Best Buy" Award Recipient for home safety systems and services announced in the August 2007 issue. The
award designation identifies the very best of the best in product quality, customer service, and overall value to
the consumer. For example, only fewer than 3% of the thousands of products that are submitted each year for
evaluation are evaluated by the Consumers Digest as meeting the quality and value standards required by their
editors to receive a "Best Buy" designation. Plus, in order to be considered for the Best Buy designation, a
product or service must be offered by a trusted company with a well-established reputation in their industry.
Consumers Digest, says that its "Best Buy" designation award recipient "is defined as a product that offers the most value for a given amount
of money. It's not necessarily the least expensive product in its category, nor does it mean it is the best-known brand," as it adds that such
item must be "a nationally available product [or service] identified as one that merits special attention from consumers based on its
combination of performance, ease-of-use, features, durability, warranty, efficiency, styling, and maintenance and servicing requirements."
Is Underwriters Laboratories-listed (UL) - Protect America's home security monitoring centers and security equipments
are designated as meeting the high standards of the Underwriters Laboratories (U.L). One of the most trusted consumer
symbols in the world, Underwriters Laboratories is an independent testing organization that sets quality and use
standards for electronic and consumer products. U.L.-listed monitoring centers must comply with strict operating
guidelines and rigorous annual inspections
Has Membership in Good Standing, at High Level, In the Industry's SDM. Protect America is not only a member in
good standing with the Security Distributing and Marketing (SDM) magazine, the premier security industry magazine
that focuses on the security industry and related current technology, networking, and skills, but is also a member
with top ranking, having ranked among the top 10 in the last 3 years on its annual poll of the electronic industry
“100 best list” ranking.
ANOTHER TOP REVIEWER RANKS THE SAME
COMPANY NUMBER #1, TOO!
Recently, editors at the TopConsumerReviews.Com
(http://www.topconsumerreviews.com), one of the select, respectable truly independent
providers of objective reviews and rankings of consumer products and services, gave
Protect America its prestigious highest ranking award in recognition of the exceptional
quality of Protect America's services and the performance of the company as a national
home security company - a 5-Star rating (the highest given). It has, in fact, been the
recipient of this prized award for the last TWO YEARS IN A ROW - 2008 & 2009.
In making the award to Protect America, the TopConsumerReviews called the company
"the best choice for home security protection...at extremely affordable prices," and
said of the company:
“Protect America provides the best home security solution available today. Their state-of-the-art equipment and nationwide monitoring
system [are] topnotch.” It adds that “Protect America sets the standard for home security systems. They offer a variety of packages that
provide cutting edge technology and reliable nationwide monitoring. Combined with customer-focused pricing and knowledgeable support,
Protect America is your best choice for home security protection. …provides a state-of-the-art, reliable home security system at extremely
affordable prices."
How PROTECT AMERICA GOT TO ITS PRESENT INDUSTRY POSITION OF BECOMING THE BEST.
Basically, Protect America jumped to being “the Best of the Best” through rapid technology growth. True, in the multi-billion dollar world of
modern home security industry, the older, more traditional, and better-known brands, such as the brands sold by the ADT and the Brinks
security companies, for example, have long dominated the field. These are “older or bigger” companies, and are companies that have,
historically, enjoyed a number of different advantages over many of the newer and younger generation companies in terms of their security
methods, the product quality they offer, a more thorough service plan that covers installation as well as service and monitoring, bigger
customer base, and far bigger budget base. However, according to our YHWR researchers' findings, while some of these newer generation
companies have in the past attempted to compete with such older and bigger companies in the industry, only recently has any of these newer
companies been able to do so effectively, especially by way of putting up effective competition and offering comparable, or, in some cases even
better, grade quality of home security packages relative to what these more traditional companies offer.
The PRINCIPAL company among such newer generation challengers, according to our YHWR researchers findings, has been the Protect America
company. In this, the Protect America company has been aided in large part by the use of the latest and most advanced in today’s changing
communications technology as a kind of “equalizer” in catching up with the bigger, richer, older companies. Protect America has rapidly
developed a reputation as the bold industry maverick and innovator that has developed an array of specialized security technologies and
programs at prices that are relatively less expensive and more affordable for almost every American family, in comparison to what the other
first rate quality companies offer. That is, in terms of being flexible, having low-cost home security monitoring options that seem specifically
designed with meeting the average home owner’s needs and budget in mind, etc. In short, the high advancement of technology employed by
the Protect America, has brought the price for Protect America's programs dramatically down to the point that it has made home security
systems highly affordable and within reach for the common American home owner or renter.
| THE PROTECT AMERICA COMPANY. THE UNIQUE QUALITIES WHY THE HDRR REVIEWERS RANK IT NUMBER #1 |
| COMPARE: THE TREMENDOUS COST DIFFERENTIALS Of PROTECT AMERICA IN OUR FINDINGS! HOME SECURITY COMPARISON TABLE (the Protect America Advantage). SIDE-BY-SIDE COMPARISON. COST/SERVICE TABLE BETWEEN ADT, BRINKS, AND PROTECT AMERICA |
| The Internet REVIEW & INVESTIGATIONS REPORT. RE: The Home Security Monitoring Systems |
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At YourHonestWebReviews.Com, we've taken the burden to always provide an honest and accurate SURE-FIRE review, for one vital reason: So that
any POSITIVE recommendation we make of a product or service, is automatically a POSITIVE recommendation to TRUST and/or to BUY. WITH
ALMOST ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY & RELIABILITY. With absolute certainty that the product or service we rank is, in fact, "the real deal" - that it will,
IN FACT, provide you EXACTLY what is promised or stated! It's all part of our central mission to analyze the products or services for you so YOU WON'T
have, yourself, to. And so we try, as well, to present our findings in a way that makes YOUR purchasing decision easier and more real and
practicable for you.
Here's Our Formal Recommendation ....
We conclude that, deriving directly from the massive amount of OBJECTIVE FACTS and EVIDENCE we saw and reviewed in the field, the Number #1
online home security company in the United States today is, in deed, the Protect America company. And from our perspective, WHAT THIS
MEANS, IS AS FOLLOWS:
OFFICIAL DESIGNATION........
100% APPROVED! Protect America Receives Our Highest Approval
Rating - a 10 out of 10.
Therefore, it is.....
APPROVED PROGRAM for you; a "to buy" RECOMMENDATION.
Signed:
P.S.: In fact, remember you can get from Protect America, a full, in depth Analysis & Assessment of your home security needs (free of charge)
right now. Simply contact the company (see the link below), enter your name and contact information there, and there's it. They'll contact you for a
full analysis of your home security situation and options. (Free, no charge or obligation on your part).
For the direct link to reach Protect America for a free analysis and assessment (no obligations), Click CLICK HERE
(Tell them we recommended you to challenge them to their usual excellence with YOU. Generates some goodwill!)
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any POSITIVE recommendation we make of a product or service, is automatically a POSITIVE recommendation to TRUST and/or to BUY. WITH
ALMOST ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY & RELIABILITY. With absolute certainty that the product or service we rank is, in fact, "the real deal" - that it will,
IN FACT, provide you EXACTLY what is promised or stated! It's all part of our central mission to analyze the products or services for you so YOU WON'T
have, yourself, to. And so we try, as well, to present our findings in a way that makes YOUR purchasing decision easier and more real and
practicable for you.
Here's Our Formal Recommendation ....
We conclude that, deriving directly from the massive amount of OBJECTIVE FACTS and EVIDENCE we saw and reviewed in the field, the Number #1
online home security company in the United States today is, in deed, the Protect America company. And from our perspective, WHAT THIS
MEANS, IS AS FOLLOWS:
- a strong word and message that this company is a legitimate, reputable, reliable and safe company that YOU can TRUST as an online buyer or
shopper - that this is a company you can comfortably do business with, with every confidence and reliance that you'd almost never be taken advantage of
or be ever scammed, or have cause to regret dealing with them. - that over and above all things else, resulting from our reviewers' independent verifications, it is conclusively shown that this company lives up
to its word or promises, and that the home security services it provides it customers, are most trusted, reliable and dependable. - that it provides its customers (home owners or renters alike) who are enrolled in its home security program - and will provide you - tremendous
SAVINGS and the BEST BUY for the services they get, in comparison to what they will get for an equal level and quality of home security services
and equipments offered by even other fellow top echelon companies in the industry like it - that for the average home owner (as compared to a renter or apartment dweller), its special program, the SILVER PACKAGE plan, is readily the
most cost-effective home security plan in the entire industry today, and is the program that readily provides the BEST BANG FOR THE BUCK in
terms of the customer getting the most security value out of what he (she) pays out on his home security protection. - that, in large part virtually because of what could be called the "Protect America revolution" in the home security industry, which basically
involves aggressive use of improved innovative communications technology and the competitive marketplace in the industry, and the central
role played by the Protect America right in the middle of it, the average cost of a security system has drastically come down to the point where
it is now no more a "luxury" that only the rich could install, but is now reasonably affordable for the average home owner or renter to have
one.
OFFICIAL DESIGNATION........
100% APPROVED! Protect America Receives Our Highest Approval
Rating - a 10 out of 10.
Therefore, it is.....
APPROVED PROGRAM for you; a "to buy" RECOMMENDATION.
Signed:
P.S.: In fact, remember you can get from Protect America, a full, in depth Analysis & Assessment of your home security needs (free of charge)
right now. Simply contact the company (see the link below), enter your name and contact information there, and there's it. They'll contact you for a
full analysis of your home security situation and options. (Free, no charge or obligation on your part).
For the direct link to reach Protect America for a free analysis and assessment (no obligations), Click CLICK HERE
(Tell them we recommended you to challenge them to their usual excellence with YOU. Generates some goodwill!)
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Please email us about it. We'd appreciate it. In deed, if that one proves out to be validated by what we find, we might pay you a commission just for
turning up that story. Our Email address for that: info@HonestDebtReliefReviews.Org
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The End of the formal report.
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Benjamin Anosike, Ph.D.
Director, Research, Investigations & Reviews
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