It has long been said, “ you get what you pay for”, meaning that if something was expensive it must be a far superior product than the same item which has a cheaper price tag. And to a certain degree I think we can all agree that this saying is true. After all, when you drive into a new car dealership what determines which is the best vehicle on the lot is always the sticker price. When it comes to electronics the same can be said. Just go down to your nearest electronics retailer and try to find a new television set. Just scroll down the list of available options such as picture quality, HDMI inputs and size, and you will very quickly see that the higher the price, the better the television. The real estate market is no different. In fact the real estate market has their own saying which says,” location, location, location”. And this saying pertains to those in the real estate market that believe you get what you pay for, and what you are paying for is not necessarily the structure of the home, but the location it is sitting on.
If you ask any resident in Miami Dade County who believes you get what you pay for, which are in Miami would be the best to fit that saying, then without a doubt most if not all would say that Coral Gables, Fl best fits that description. It would not require us who live here in Miami Dade to see a county report or anything to decide that Coral Gables is the place to live because it is just common knowledge within the county that Coral Gables is without a doubt the best location to live in based on the high price you are asked to pay. And this high cost doesn’t just stop at the purchase of the house. That high price you will pay will go on from the high price you will then be required to pay fro property taxes. Yes that’s right, high property taxes come along with living or wanting to live in the most exclusive and prestigious location in town.
The good news however is that along with those high priced property taxes comes along better than average city services. Services such as sanitation provides way better than usual attention to detail and additional services most if not any municipality provides. During the Christmas holidays, Coral Gables rolls out the red carpet to provide a spectacular presentation to the local residents. All of the city is covered with lights, Christmas wreathes and Christmas showcases in the middle of what is known as Miracle Mile, Coral Gables. And with these benefits from the city also comes possibly the best police response in the entire state.
With the term you get what you pay for definitely coincides the great police response you receive from the city of Coral Gables. I have personally experienced on more than one occasion the police being dispatched to a location I was in the middle of servicing. In fact I have accidentally set off an alarm at a residence within Coral Gables and immediately tried to cancel the dispatch and have had the police show up while I was on hold trying to tell the dispatcher not to send the police because it was an error and not a real alarm. During recent times i have even had the uncomfortable experience of having the police come out because a neighbor heard an alarm sounding. Yes, if you can believe it the police actually came out instantly because a neighbor heard us testing the alarm we were installing. The police in the city of Coral Gables are not only the best in responding to alarms but are actually the best in providing professional service to their community. When seconds count you want to know the police take their ability to apprehend or subdue a would be criminal seriously. Knowing that That type of police response is available in the city of Coral Gables makes purchasing and having central station monitoring should be common sense. Why someone would live in a city like Coral Gables that has amazing police response yet chooses to not take advantage of it by purchasing and monitoring a home security system is something I will personally never understand.
With the rate of crime constantly rising, getting a monitored home security system is just the reasonable and rational thing to do. So the next thing to consider is who to choose to be the provider of the security system services. In Miami Dade county the choices are endless. You can go to the yellow pages book or even to the yellow pages on line and find and endless list of companies.
Just as we said at the beginning of this article that you truly get what you pay for, well in the home security market it is no different. So does that mean that I need to find the most expensive company out there to ensure I am getting the best equipment or the best service provided in the industry? No, not at all. Although we mostly gauge the quality of what we are getting based on the price it doesn’t always mean we have to go out and find the absolute mist expensive guy out there. Just make sure you don’t find the cheapest company out there because there is always a reason why they are the absolute cheapest. Back in 1985 I personally worked at a small family owned home security company that boasted of being the cheapest in town. However there was a very good reason why they were in fact the cheapest in town. You see, the central station was being run out of the basement in the owners personal; home. That meant that every time an actual alarm took place, the customers alarm would report via phone line to an alarm receiver located in the owners basement.
The owners wife would mad this receiver that would receive the customers alarm signal and she would personally call the customer’s house and back up phone numbers provided. In the event it was a real alarm, the owners wife would call the police herself and ask them to be dispatched to the location. Well you can just imagine what a mess this would turn out to be in the event that more than one customer’s alarm was going off at the same time. just imagine that she would be on the phone contacting one customer and basically just ignoring the other until she was finished with the first. At times she would need to use the bathroom and would just leave all of the customers subscribers hanging until she was finished and back to work. At the time I thought this was just the normal way to do business until the day I went to work at ADT.
ADT immediately enlightened me to what a truly professional home security company should look like. ADT was and still is the one and only home security company that has multiple central stations so that in the event something goes wrong all subscriber accounts can be transferred to the next central station at the flip of a switch. ADT provides and extensive amount of residential and commercial security systems services that are too long to list on this page. ADT is by far the number one name in home security, not locally or even nationwide but actually world wide. That’s right world wide. ADT is the largest and oldest home security company in existence.
If you live in the city of Coral Gables or for that matter anywhere in Miami Florida and have decided it is time to have a home security system evaluation done in your home or business then ADT is just a phone call away. Just call our local office today at 1-800-991-6587 and one of our professional security system specialists will visit you at your location and determine what the best strategy of protection is best for you and your loved ones.
