My break in **UPDATE**

Hey Dusted72,
Sorry to hear about your break in.
My wife and I decided we wanted an alarm system when we bought our home, our master bedroom is in the end of the house away from the driveway and anyone coming up the stairs in our house would get to my sons room first, this was very unerving to me.
We chose a setup from ADT, it is a basic system, one motion sensor, and 3 door alarms with a keypad and back up battery, we bought a few other sensors for other doors we wanted covered and upgraded to the shock door sensors rather than the magnet type, so the alarm will sound if the door is roughed around BEFORE it is opened.
Really, I was after that piece of mind that I would be alerted fast if someone was in my home while we were all there. So, the deal is they came an installed all this stuff for a small fee and we subscribed to their monitoring service, (they call the house and cops if the alarm goes off) for 3 years @ $35 dollars a month if you choose to cancel the service after that you still keep all the installed equipment.
This seemed like a perfect deal for us, and I just wanted to share our experience.

On another note, I am a newly, very proud, naturalized US citizen as of this past march (german/dutch parents) and would like to say a big THANK YOU for your service!