Small Apartment Owners-Who is your go-to for security?

[Patrick Menefee]

Hey BP fam,

I’m in the renovation process for an 8-unit apartment in a so-so area of town, and unfortunately during some down time on the project we had some copper stolen. It made me start thinking about an outdoor security system for the future once everything is up and running.

Do you have any recommendations? These are all units with exterior doors so there’s so shared hallway or anything like that, just a shared laundry room accessible from the exterior. Any equipment I can keep locked up in the laundry room with power and internet access.

I’m considering throwing up cameras all around the outside of the building, but trying to figure out the best bet for monitoring. I live in a different city so I’d like something with remote capabilities, ideally with storage on the cloud so I don’t have to worry about a hard drive filling up.

What have you used? What else should I consider? TIA!

[Greg Scott]

If you already have internet set up at the property, I love Reolink.  Super easy to set up. Only one wire to run since you can get POE.  Easily accessible by computer or phone with recordings.  Very expandable and inexpensive.  Here is one of my properties right now...