All Forum Posts by: John N.

@Patricksugg

I figured out a simple solution for my simplisafe system.   The components are so easy to install and remove i put them up when its empty and back in my closet when occupied.  No contract means you can turn the service on and off as you need it.   Also, my system is very simple.  Control panel, base station and a few motion detectors.  My delay time is set to zero, all my indicator lights are off and the alarm is silent locally.  The moment someone enters any hallway or main room the alarms triggers silently, calls me and calls the police. Simply safe.

@nataliya Seager.  I do not, that is the beauty of SimpliSafe.  No Contracts.  Monitoring is on or off depending on YOUR needs.

Replacing the caulk is a $6.00 tube of caulk, 25cents worth of tape and 20 minutes. Caulk, especially cheap caulk ages out and mildews.

Isn't illegal in most places to sell someone a property with know problems of any sort? I don't know if this qualifies but if the seller knew about the tenant then it sounds as if they intentionally misled you. Fraud?

You have gotten a lot of great advice. My 2 cents. I am a lazy, risk adverse investor. I only pay cash and don't try to leverage. Yes, its slow but I can quit or drop dead anytime with no worries for my family or myself. I am probably a few years older and have very different goals.

"Just make the good looking side of the fence faces your property, and they can look at the ugly" Very bad idea. This is against code in many places and much more importantly the "ugly" side is the easily climbable side. I'll keep that on my side thank you. I see no reason to provide a ladder to a bad guy so he can enter my property more easily. Kinda funny, put up a fence with an installed ladder.

How serious people take this ABCDF thing just amuses the heck out of me. It's so very subjective. Every single person is going to have a different perception of what each category is. If I were to divide the home classes in my area into these categories I am probably living in a "C". A would have to be the nicest subdivisions and they are 7 figure homes, Beautiful place truly. B? Medium to high 6 figures? Half the cost of the average A home? C would be somewhere down the hill from there. Point being, its simply not quantifiable. A "D" in one area is a house trailer on an acre 1 mile from Walmart. A "D" in another region might be an inner city 'hood with a majority blue collar population. If you grew up in a D or F your perception of what is truly bad is going to be different than the perception of the private school lacrosse kids.

Oh and no internet required, it is cell phone based and has a 24 hour back up battery.

Nathan, homeless pop up everywhere. There is a very high end gated beach community near me that has a big problem with them sleeping on the back porches of 7 figure homes. As to the security. SImplysafe is far and above your best solution. Don't waste your time or money with the window sensors or anything else. You will need a base station, control panel and one or two motion detectors. This is what is so great about simplysafe. There is no required contract. Buy the system and put it on your closet shelf in a plastic tote. When your property is vacant, install the system with a little two sided tape, call simplysafe and turn on the monitoring. Set the alarm delay to zero seconds and no audible alarm in the property. The second someone opens a door or window and attempts to enter. The PoPo and you get called. You can use the smartphone app to disarm from anywhere whenever a contractor or someone else needs to enter. The intruder never knows they tripped an alarm. When all is said and done and you have a new tenant, but the system back in its tote, turn of the monitoring and forget about it until you need it again.

@Steve Kay You can grow peyote in a closet?