Customer focus LOST in move to Mountain Alarm from Burgarello! We had been customers for 11 years,…read morewith both companies, but not anymore. Don't let them rip you off! We received an automated phone message that their system was not talking to our alarm, so we no longer were being monitored. When we finally reached a real person, they said we needed to pay a significant amount for a service call to determine the problem, even though they did not know what caused the outage, after working fine for 11 years. We decided to change alarm monitoring companies, finding more service and less expense, and since Mountain Alarm has raised their rates 22% from 2019. Since we were required to pay in advance, we asked for reimbursement for the time their services were not provided due to the unknown technical issue, but they refused. We requested a call from the GM or Supervisor, but just heard back from the person who answers the phone, with a bullshit rationale for why they were keeping our money that they did not earn. We suggest that management needs to either be accessible or empower their employees to make customer service a priority. Don't get caught by excessive charges after you sign up for their alarm monitoring, Mountain Alarm is not the highly ethical Burgarello anymore!!

Communication breakdown! Zero stars. Oh how we miss…read moreBurgarello Alarm. Mountain Alarm purchased Burgarello Alarm. Here are some of the reasons we will be pulling our accounts (residential & business) with Mountain Alarm. Absolute communication breakdown with this company. Our home is not safe with them which defeats the purpose. 1. Provided me misinformation about the procedure to advise them when we travel and have house/pet sitters staying in our home. I explained we never had this inconvenient procedure. They said I couldn't let them know a week in advance (I do certain things before travel day). when we were departing, returning, house/pet sitters names & their passwords. "You have to call the day you depart, our system doesn't allow for this in advance" I asked, So if I have to leave for airport at 3:30am I am inconvenienced to call you then? I did end up calling them the day of departure for our June trip, gave them all pertinent information, then had to call them again the day we were returning. Ridiculous. 2. In July I call to let them know we are now taking a mini trip in July, they said they already had information, and gave me the dates we traveled the month before in June, turns out they put the wrong month for our June trip, they had put July! Good thing alarm didn't go off in June. I was then told I was given misinformation in June, I could not only tell them our travel dates etc in advance but could even tell them what hour our house/pet sitters will start and end. ‍ 3. A couple weeks ago our 9 hard wired smoke detectors were blaring in middle of night (they all go off simultaneously) I call Mountain Alarm, was told they have someone on call and they will call me, no call. I call again, they tell me a ticket was done, I said forget the ticket (service ticket) I needed help then & there, still no call from "on call person", I call again, they do find someone to call us, he was able to help us learn how to get alarms to go off by decompressing the detectors. 2 hours sleep that night. 4. When our alarm was blaring my husband and I tried to figure problem out prior to calling Mountain Alarm, they never called us to ask why alarm was going off, glad house wasn't on fire and we were not home, our pets were lucky too. 5. Today I get a call "just wanted to tell you I'm on my way". I don't have an appointment, no one told me they made appointment today or any day for that matter. No fault of guy headed our way, he's just told where to go. I couldn't do appointment today, had 2 other appointments back to back already. 6. Today I call our local Mountain Alarm office, I told her I was looking for the corporate office number, she transferred me to I believe Utah, but definitely not local, turns out the number was one of those recorded fake humans pretending to be human "press 1 if you're over 50, press 2 if under 50, them promo crap. I had to hang up, then.... 7. Today I call the call center/dispatch in Utah asking for the corporate office phone number, they don't know what it is, nor did her supervisor. How can you work for a company and not be given your corporate number? There were other problems prior to these mentioned, I don't do business with companies that think they work for the CIA and hide from their customers. You can't even get corporate number by Googling. They lost our business. I can not recommend this alarm company, what an unorganized business that fails in communication. Going elsewhere. After I wrote the review above, the local office said they had the corporate number, I called it, it was the "main office" in Utah. First she said they were not the corporate office but takes calls for corporate, then later in conversation she said they were the corporate office, I asked why the confusion, no explanation, I asked if the president works in her building, her first answer was no, then I'm not sure, then oh he does but he chooses if he works there or from home. Dear lord, these people are confused they don't even know if they are corporate or not or where the president works. She went to transfer me to a Chris who takes calls for corporate (funny I thought they were corporate) she put me on hold for 26 minutes, came back to say sorry for the long hold Chris is at lunch. So it took her 26 minutes to figure that out? Update: our local GM called me, not corporate because they are essentially off limits to customers, but the local GM was a good listener, said he appreciated learning what's been happening. I learned even though Mountain Alarm is based out of Utah they use a third party call center. This is a major problem and makes sense why there's such a communication breakdown and disregard for their mistakes. I still can't continue business with them at this time but hope they can get things right in the future because we have a local office in Sparks and I like to see local businesses succeed.