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Hi ken

    enjoy your emails! in regards to stopping runaway signals  my central station will block any signal coming from a runaway or canceled alarm system. any reputable central which mine is Rapid Response should be able to provide this service.

Thanks,

Tony

Sonia Security Systems Inc.

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Ken,

    Technically it is a trespass, but I will send a tech by to remove the security line from their NID at the connection point on the side of the house.  Most people are not home during the day, but the tech is instructed to simply apologize and leave if a homeowner appears and objects.  At this point we have had no problems at all.

Best regards,

Robert

***********  name and business omitted to protect the "innocent".  I don't think you should be disconnecting anything on the side of the house.  I am not sure what you're disconnecting, but if it affects anything other than the monitoring you'll be in trouble.  Talk to your central station about less risky remedies.

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Ken

    I simply block the call.

Walter F. Tutor

Tutor Security, Inc.

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Hello Ken,

    `In response the question below about blocking calls at the central station this can be done in different ways.  Some central station receivers such as the Sur-Gard System III allow the central station to block ANI or Caller ID numbers via the receiver.  This can also be accomplished via certain PBX systems if the alarm signals are going through the central station PBX.   

Thanks,

Sascha Kylau

Sales Manager

Security Solutions and Services - Global

skylau@dsc.com

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Hey Ken:

    My name is Chris and I am the office manager of a central station.  Thankfully, we don't have too many runaway signals but when we do, we have been able to remotely access the alarm and take out just the reporting ability.

    Back in the early 90's, we had a bunch of dealers and some of them weren't paying and one particular account was sending in runaway signals and we could NOT get them to help stop it.  So..........we dispatched the police everytime we got a signal and informed the police department of the situation and would they PLEASE help us in getting this customer to comply and help the situation.  Thankfully, the police were more than helpful because they didn't want to get called and we didn't want to call them any more than we have to...

    Thanks for all the emails...  You all talk about some really interesting things.

    Here's a question for you.

    We monitor alarms in almost every state BUT, we monitor for ONE national client.  They are based in Texas and their Home Office pays us the monitoring fees.  The main company has their own installation crew but we provide the monitoring services for them.  More and more states are requiring that we get licensed (ie money...) for their state license.  We've also been asked to pay taxes in that state but we don't receive any monies from any state other than Texas because that's where the Corporate Office is located.  My guess is that we still have to get monitoring licenses because that's the way they have written the law, but what about being taxed?

Thanks for any info....

Best,

Chris

**********  Some licensing laws extend to monitoring, and you need to be licensed in those jurisdictions.  States can also tax for revenue generated in their state.  Sounds like you're conducting activity in the state, and may even have to be licensed to do it.  Check with your accountant or a tax lawyer.  Anyone out there with opinion on this tax issue?

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