AP,

My wife was looking at the Costco offering, but we haven't acted on it. Similar to you, we have Custom installed in the house, but I decided not to use their monitoring (auto dialer to their monitoring base) when I learned that our County Sheriff's Dept. doesn't respond to residential alarms. (Amazing! WTF?) What I want is for the alarm dialer to call me or my wife's cell phone so we can call the Sheriff directly. That way they will come when I tell them that if I get there before the deputy they will need to bring body bags.

Fishy,

Good info. I wondered if the security company would change the dialer to call me instead of them. I'm not sure what the point of them calling the Sheriff is. They say the Sheriff will respond, but the Sheriff's office says they won't unless I call them personally to say that it isn't a false alarm. False alarms are apparently the reason they don't respond. But if I tell them there are gonna' be bodies, they will come out for that. Weird?

Sg