ADT Contract Language help.

I would have taken the additional option of "f*ck you, Mr builder- it is my money and you better build it the way I tell you to- otherwise, no deal."

If you're saying that this wasn't an option with a home that you were having built for you, then you bought the wrong home from the wrong builder. Did they provide a tube KY with each home purchase?

You have the First Alert personality disk for Compass? I have to use the old MS-DOS based thing from 1992. Does it do FA1000 and FA1200C on Compass? Maybe I have someting you want and we could trade?

Okay SafeWatch Pro 3000 = Vista 20P? I didn't know that. ADT hasn't made the switch to their own product there? No wonder they will give him the lockout code. I have seen ADT panels listed in Compass Software. You can't hit them without the ADT personality disk (like First Alert) as you are probably all too well aware already. In any case the Vista 20P is still a middle of the road panel, certainly not high end.

In a true custom home yes, in a "semi-custom" (read; custom tract spec house) forget it, the builder uses and charges what he wants. I've been on both ends of this stick.

I dunno if it does those, I'll have to look later. I only use it for the small panels.

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He wasn't having a home built for him, he was buying a home that was being built, its not the same thing.

Doug

The solution to this is to insist on being allowed to provide your own security,CCTV, intercom, structured wiring and whole-house audio video during negotiations for the purchase. Get it in writing *before* you sign with the builder. If he won't budge, find another builder.

One nice thing (for consumers) about the falling housing market is that builders become more flexible than they were during the boom years before Bush.

well not quite. i purchased a home in a developer owned community. ie. they had 9 models, each with different elevations and 100's of thosands of dollars in options each. my wife and i picked the lot, the house everything in it etc. but the builder owns the lot AND the house until the day of closing... so i watched the whole thing get built to my specs (of the specs *they allow*) and could only do stuff out of the scope they allowed after it was done and i finally owned it.

to those who said the alarm option was robbery and i shouldn't have gone with the builder... well clearly it was robbery and some kind of deal with a small old equipment company BUT the neighboorhood, price, design, other options were great... what was i supposed to do, cut my face off to spite my nose?

in the end hopefully this works out...

security,CCTV, intercom, structured wiring and whole-house

builders become more flexible than they were during the boom

Hate to break it to you but the boom years were DURING Bush, in fact the last housing crash was in 94 under Clinton

Hahahahaahahahahahahahahaha. Yeah, right.

Thats normal, but the price for a prewire you mentioned was very high for what they were giving you.

| > Doug | | | well not quite. i purchased a home in a developer owned community. ie. | they had 9 models, each with different elevations and 100's of thosands | of dollars in options each. my wife and i picked the lot, the house | everything in it etc. but the builder owns the lot AND the house until | the day of closing... so i watched the whole thing get built to my | specs (of the specs *they allow*) and could only do stuff out of the | scope they allowed after it was done and i finally owned it. | | to those who said the alarm option was robbery and i shouldn't have | gone with the builder... well clearly it was robbery and some kind of | deal with a small old equipment company BUT the neighboorhood, price, | design, other options were great... what was i supposed to do, cut my | face off to spite my nose? | | in the end hopefully this works out... |

You have yet to prove your argument, the housing boom has JUST begun to slow down after years of rapid growth during both Clinton and Bush, even the slowdown has been mild.

You are much better off just cutting and pasting things from the local paper Robert

Its not built to your specs, you chose from the menu of options, thats all

Doug

I wish he'd post that Walmart coupon. You know the one with $1.00 off the economy Kleenex. I'm goin' through record numbers havin' to wipe my monitor so often. Now QUIT it! :-)

Shhhhhh! He thinks it's a custom home. js

custom tract...what an oxymoron. genuine Naugahyde...damn those freekin Naugas