KEN KIRSCHENBAUM, ESQ ALARM - SECURITY INDUSTRY LEGAL EMAIL NEWSLETTER / THE ALARM EXCHANGE You can read all of our articles on our website. Having trouble getting our emails? Change your spam controls and whitelist ken@kirschenbaumesq.com ****************************** Contract sale 2026 has started / - don't wait / another memory January 2, 2026 January 2, 2026 ********************** K&K Contract sale 2026 K&K annual Contract sale 2026 through January 9, 2026 up to 40% off all contracts and forms ****************** THE SALE RUNS THROUGH JANUARY 9, 2026. 30%off all contracts and forms Join the Concierge Program before you order contracts and get additional 10% discount. Join here: https://www.kirschenbaumesq.com/page/concierge Order contracts and forms here:https://www.kirschenbaumesq.com/page/alarm-contract *************** NOTICE: The Standard Form Agreements have been updated for 2026. 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Concierge Clients receive an additional 10% off the sale price.You can join the Concierge Program before ordering to receive the discount and you should take advantage of this program. ******************* Contract sale runs through January 9, 2026. This will definitely be the best deal of 2026. When you place the order the full price will come up. We will apply the discount manually when we process the order. Contracts will be delivered by email only. Just order what you need - we will check and apply the proper discounts. THE CONTRACTS ARE UPDATED FOR 2026 AND STEEPLY DISCOUNTED ON THIS SALE. ORDER EARLY TO AVOID THE WAIT. ALL CONTRACTS ARE CUSTOMIZED AND STATE SPECIFIC. ********************************* another memory ********************************* Ken I appreciate Jeff’s story in the December 19, 2025 article and glad you shared it. I also grew up ‘in the business’ during the same time but in a different geographic area. My dad was the ADT employee assigned with splitting up the accounts in Oklahoma City when the government decided this (then family-owned) business was a monopoly. No company was big enough to buy them so Honeywell bought a small company (where Dad had gotten me employed as a teen) and made their first venture into the alarm business. ‘Taking over’ many hundreds of accounts was quite a learning experience. At the time ADT’s work was solid and we all tried to emulate the quality. I suspect this influence of the giant companies of those days set a standard across the industry. But it was soon corrupted by what Jeff described. I saw all this transpire and when I started my own company 15 years later, I brought it forward as the right way to do business. However, between the industry dropping any notion of standards other than getting a contract signed and customers slowly forgetting about quality and attaching only to price, we have come to this point. It is what it is. One of many things the oldsters understand about yesteryear. I hope the story never gets lost to the next generations. You get what you pay for if you take responsibility as a purchaser. If not, you buy lots of insurance, and look where those premiums and coverage have gone. Zeke in Oklahoma ************************************* Response ******************************************** Thanks Zeke for this and all your contributions to this forum througout the year. 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