HOA and managed propertyOklahoma City, OKEst. 1992
Security your residents can see
The person an officer meets at two in the morning on your streets is a resident who helps pay for him, and whatever he does that night gets raised at the following board meeting. We pick the officer for the patrol and write the reports with that meeting in mind.
- Patrol
- Marked vehicles
- Reporting
- Time-stamped pass logs
- Insurance
- Certificate names the association
- Officers
- Licensed and bonded
Seeing any of this on your streets?
- Unfamiliar vehicles cruising the streets, or people nobody recognizes on foot
- Vehicle break-ins, package theft, vandalism, or trespassing
- Homeowners uneasy about leaving the house unattended while they travel
A marked patrol vehicle moving through the neighborhood discourages all three before they start, which is why most boards buy the visibility before they buy anything else.
We drive it before we quote it
Most boards call for the same reasons. Cars are getting gone through overnight, packages are walking off porches, somebody is parking in the pool lot at hours nobody can explain, and the sheriff can only get there so often.
The first thing we do is drive it. An officer runs your streets at the hours the problem happens, not at nine in the morning when everything looks fine, and comes back with where somebody gets in, which lights are out, which gate closes slowly enough to tailgate through, and where a patrol pass would actually be seen.
The board decides how much presence the property needs from there. Two random passes a night stops it for some neighborhoods, while others need a standing officer at the gate on weekends. We will tell you which one your streets look like, and we will say so when what you need is less than you asked about.
The first questions a board asks
- Can the officer stop somebody?A licensed officer can detain for a crime committed in his presence and hold for police. He is not a police officer and we will never tell a board otherwise.
- Armed or unarmed?Most neighborhoods run unarmed, and we will tell you if yours is one of them even though the armed post bills higher.
- The board receivesTime-stamped pass logs and a written incident report on anything that happened, on whatever schedule the board sets.
- Are you insured?Yes, and the certificate names the association. Ask for one and it goes out the same business day.
Coverage an association can buy
Most boards start with one of the first two and add from there.
Marked random patrol
A marked vehicle runs your streets at the hours your problem happens, on a pattern nobody watching can predict, and every pass is logged with its time.
Gate and entry post
An officer works the entrance during the hours that matter, checking who comes in, turning away what does not belong, and keeping the gate from being tailgated.
Vacation and vacancy checks
A resident is away, or a unit is between owners. We check the door, the windows, the mail, and the lights, and send the owner a note that it was checked.
Pool, clubhouse, and amenity
An officer closes the pool at posted hours, clears the clubhouse lot, and handles the guest who will not leave, so a board member never has to do it in person.
Meetings and events
An annual meeting, a contentious hearing, a block party, or a holiday event gets an officer whose whole job that night is keeping it calm.
Property assessment
We walk and drive the property and hand the board an ordered list of what to fix first, covering lighting, sightlines, gates, and cameras aimed at nothing. Boards run this before they spend out of the reserve.
Camera planning and placement
We work out where a camera earns its money on your streets before the association buys hardware that ends up watching an empty hedge.
Holiday and special event coverage
The weeks when houses sit empty and porches fill with deliveries get their own coverage, funded separately from the annual contract so the base rate does not carry it.
Licensed peace officers on request
Situations that call for arrest authority get commissioned peace officers instead of security officers. Say so and we will price it that way.
Program cost per community
The contract buys the patrol, so every figure below is one annual program divided across the doors that share it.
8-hour daily patrol
365 days per year| Community | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|
| 150 homes | $65.60 | $787.20 |
| 200 homes | $49.20 | $590.40 |
| 300 homes | $32.80 | $393.60 |
| 500 homes | $19.68 | $236.16 |
| 600 homes | $16.40 | $196.80 |
The association is billed for the program and collects it however the dues are structured. A community size that is not listed divides the same annual figure the same way.
12-hour daily patrol
365 days per year| Community | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|
| 200 homes | $73.80 | $885.60 |
| 300 homes | $49.20 | $590.40 |
| 500 homes | $29.52 | $354.24 |
| 600 homes | $24.60 | $295.20 |
The association is billed for the program and collects it however the dues are structured. A community size that is not listed divides the same annual figure the same way.
24-hour security coverage
365 days per year| Community | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|
| 300 homes | $98.40 | $1,180.80 |
| 500 homes | $59.04 | $708.48 |
| 600 homes | $49.20 | $590.40 |
The association is billed for the program and collects it however the dues are structured. A community size that is not listed divides the same annual figure the same way.
Reporting the board receives
Pass logs
Every patrol pass carries its time, so the board can see what it paid for.
Incident reports
Anything that happened is written the way it needs to read if it ends up in front of a lawyer or an insurer.
Certificate of insurance
The certificate names the association and goes out the same business day you ask for it.
A named supervisor
One number reaches a supervisor who knows the property by name.
Licensing, bonding, and coverage
Earnest Security and Private Investigation Services has been a licensed Oklahoma security agency under law enforcement ownership since 1992. Every officer is licensed and bonded as the state mandates, and every assignment carries general liability, workers' compensation, assault and battery, and errors and omissions coverage.
Certificates of insurance go out the same business day to the school, district, association, or property owner that asks for one. Tell us who the certificate needs to name when you ask, because the name on it is what makes it worth having.
Carriers price a documented, licensed, insured security presence as a mitigating control, so it is worth raising with your own underwriter before you renew. When an incident does happen, the written report and the standing procedure behind it are what the property owner has to show for it.
Officers receive continuous professional education and qualify twice each year, so the person driving your streets in December was tested the same way as the one who started in January.
Licensed, bonded, and insured
- General liability coverage
- Workers' compensation
- Assault and battery coverage
- Errors and omissions (E&O)
- All officers bonded as the state mandates
The people you deal with
Edward Earnest
Owner. Retired Oklahoma County Sheriff's Deputy and Academy Instructor.
- Phone(405) 773-6911
- EmailSend a message
Javier Vazquez
Field Training Officer. Runs the patrol side day to day and is who a board reaches about a specific night.
- Phone(405) 773-6911
- EmailSend a message
Put it in front of your board
Tell us the neighborhood and what has been happening. We will drive it and send back something the board can read at its next meeting.