Home Security in Houston.Personal Service.

Depends what you want. Houston has the national brands at $45–$90 a month on 36–60 month agreements, and older local names selling tiered plans with an equipment price list. We think the honest pitch is the combination: flat $19.99/mo monitoring, no required contract, equipment you own, salaried Texas technicians, and 4.9 stars across 1,300+ reviews. Get two or three on-site quotes and compare them side by side.

Monitoring is $19.99/month flat, or $24.99/month with video analytics and cloud recording. Equipment is quoted on site after a free walkthrough, and you own it, so there’s nothing to rent forever. No contract is required. National brands here generally run $45–$90 a month on 36–60 month agreements, which is where the real cost hides.

Yes, if you’re inside Houston city limits. The city requires a burglar alarm permit through its Burglar Alarm Administration, it renews annually, and the city bills for police response to alarms at addresses without a valid one. We tell you which permit your address needs and walk you through filing it. The details are in our City of Houston alarm permit guide.

Yes. If your home is in unincorporated Harris County rather than inside a city, you register with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office instead of the City of Houston — same idea, different office and different form. Plenty of addresses out past Beltway 8 and around Cypress, Atascocita and Spring are county, not city. Our Harris County alarm permit guide covers it.

Yes, and we’d rather tell you than have you find out. Alamo has been Texas-owned since 2017 out of San Antonio, with a team in Austin, and Houston is our newest market. What travels with us is the part the reviews are about — salaried technicians instead of subcontractors, a flat rate instead of a tier chart, and monitoring run from San Antonio. Texas license #B05229001.

It’s designed for exactly that. Your panel runs on a cellular radio with battery backup, so it keeps arming, alarming and reporting when the power is out and the internet is down — the two things that go together on a Gulf Coast storm night. Cameras and lights still need power, but the alarm itself and the monitoring connection stay up on backup.

Yes, and on the Gulf Coast that’s half the reason people call us. A burst supply line found on Monday morning instead of Friday afternoon is a towel job instead of an insurance claim, so we place leak sensors at the water heater, behind the washer and under sinks, and we can add an automatic shutoff valve that closes the main as soon as water appears. Some insurers offer a discount for a shutoff valve — ask yours.

No. A contract is never required. We’ll offer you one if you want to lock in your rate, but it stays optional. The big brands sign Houston homeowners for 36 to 60 months at $45–$90 a month, and that agreement is the reason people stay, not the service. We’d rather earn it every month.

You own it. Panel, sensors, cameras, doorbell — all yours, quoted on site so you see the number before anyone touches a wall. If you ever switch companies or sell the house, the equipment stays with the home. You’re not handing back hardware you already paid for several times over in monthly fees.

Greater Houston. Katy, Cypress, Tomball, Spring, The Woodlands and Conroe on the north and west side; Sugar Land, Missouri City, Richmond, Rosenberg and Fulshear in Fort Bend; Pearland, Friendswood, League City, Webster and Clear Lake to the south; Pasadena, Deer Park, Baytown, Humble, Kingwood and Atascocita to the east — plus Bellaire, West University and the neighborhoods inside the Loop. Not sure we reach you? Call (210) 625-6575.

In San Antonio, at a UL-listed, TMA Five Diamond monitoring center (our partner UCC) — not out of state and not overseas. When your alarm trips, a real person in Texas calls you, then dispatches HPD or the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. Give us your alarm permit number and we keep it on file so dispatch goes through cleanly instead of getting flagged at an unpermitted address.

Often, yes. A lot of Houston homes came with a builder panel and door contacts, or still have gear from a company the previous owner used. We look at what’s there during the free walkthrough and reuse whatever is worth reusing, so you’re not paying to rip out equipment that still does its job.