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So glad you're with us here on the Clark Howard Show where it's about you learning ways to

save more and spend less and don't let you whenever rip you off.

Coming up later, we're going to have Clark Stinks. So I want to tell you a story.

We had a burglar alarm that was aging out and the equipment was too old for the modern

era and it wasn't really compatible with the new things I wanted to have, which was

integration of cameras and various things that will be able to be added modularly to new

burglar alarms. So I get a quote on getting a modernized burglar alarm and you know I won't

sign a contract. So the equipment quote comes in at $2700. And then the monthly monitoring

because I wanted wireless and backup and all this stuff was going to be $25 a month,

$300 a year. So that's $3,000 just in the first year. And then 300 each year after that.

And I was like, this is crazy. Here I am, touting these self-install alarm systems.

I've been talking about them for years. I first saw one at CES, the Consumer Electronics

show years ago and I've had producer Joel on the air talk about how he bought a self-install

and has moved it twice over the years. He and his wife have moved to other dwellings. And I was like,

what? Why can't I do this? So I looked closely at three of the systems, the nest system,

the ring system and simply safe. And I looked at what the cost of the hardware was, the various

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