United Security Systems

We were customers of United for almost a dozen years before moving to an apartment while a new place was being built. Since we were on contract we kept paying though there was nothing to monitor for 6 months. Once we moved into the new place, we were never able to get the system running reliably. Given, the alarm system was installed by the builder, not United Systems, so they didn’t have the same level of expertise with it, but they initially said they could work with it. Our install was further complicated by a GSM module in the basement so we didn’t have the alarm interfere with an answering machine on the landline. The GSM module couldn’t keep a connection up and we got alarms (not intrusion alarms) from the box daily. After a few visits from service including one that cost us $ 100, a system that still didn’t work, and an invitation to buy a new system ($ 300?), I cancelled service, but only after the contract period was up. Basically 2.5 years of no service while paying for it «on contract».

Be sure to read the fine print before signing up with USS. I made this mistake and have warned many others whom have cancelled their services with this company.

After someone began messing around with items on our porch in the middle of the night, my husband and I decided it was high time to activate our alarm system and get back to sleeping peacefully throughout the night without having to worry.
The people who owned our house prior to us had had the system installed years before and when they moved out, they left us a letter recommending various vendors and United Systems, a local company, was given their stamp of approval.
United Systems offers motion sensors, glass break sensors, wiring for your window screens in case they are cut and so on. You can customize these services to your home and you can even have various zones of your house set differently. Basically, they offer everything to help you sleep soundly. It’s about $ 30/​mo for their services and you have the option of being billed monthly or quarterly, etc.
While no one has bothered to mess with our house lately, I know that United Systems is on top of it because my husband has accidentally tripped the alarm himself a few times (oops!). At 3am one morning, he let the dogs out without disabling the alarm system first and within 60 seconds, United Systems had called to see if everything was alright, asking our secret password, and asking if police needed to be dispatched.
Thanks to United Systems, I may be able to start watching scary movies again knowing the boogey man won’t be sneaking through my window later that night.