We have a second floor condo which has a private first floor entrance, a sliding glass door which opens onto a balcony, and ten windows. Drop down stairs lead to an unfinished attic from which one could fairly easily drop wires down to everything but the main entrance. The main entrance is a single story section which sticks out from the building, and I can't imagine any way of fishing wires to a sensor or control panel without mucking up the drywall/paint (which I'd like to avoid if at all possible). This is a safe condo community with plenty of neighbors home at any given time of day. ATM at least, I'm not terribly interested in a monitoring service or fire/smoke detection. It would be nice if those could be easily added down the road, but for now an appropriately loud siren upon breakin would be adequate I think.
I've started to read up on the subject and this coming week I'll ping a couple of reputable local companies. But I thought I'd also ping you folks to see if you have any advice wrt specific systems or hookup strategies or whatever. Thanks in advance.