Home Security Monitoring

Hello,

My husband and I are looking at buying our first home. Our town is actually somewhat segregated (financially, not racially). There’s the A section of town, with all the reeeeeally expensive houses. The B section of town, with more “family” homes that are <20 yrs old. The C section of town, where there are family homes, but they're all from the 1950's- 1970's. And then the D part of town which is pretty ghetto and dangerous.

All of the houses in our price range are in the C part of town (1950's- 70's homes). Most of the have been/are being remodeled to make the neighborhoods more appealing to new buyers. But some of these houses are kind of close to downtown, which scares me to death. I know someone could break into any house, anywhere, but we're currently renting an apartment in the nicer part of town and I "feel" really safe there.

All of the houses we've been looking at buying are 900- 1,100 sq ft. I know it's tiny, but it's our first house, so it's not supposed to be a mansion. We don't need a system that will dial 911 for us or anything like that. But it would be nice to have a loud siren in the case of a perimeter breech. We can call 911 on our own.... =)

Given that information, which home security system would be the best? Thanks!