popeyeluvsoliveoyl wrote: If you try to cancel the contract before it is up, they want you to pay the remainder of the contract. The reason for this is they contract with a 3rd party to monitor your house and they pay them the full amount of the contract upfront.
It must have been a small company, the monitoring station(s) we use allows us to cancel with 30 days notice (and less under some circumstances) but we still require our customers to pay all outstanding monitoring fees because we subsidize the cost of installation and equipment. What they told you is a common cop out in our industry.