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Galaxy IT & Marketing is an authorized Lorex dealer serving Fitchburg, MA. Every system we install records to a recorder in your building — no monthly subscription, and it keeps recording with the internet down.
A lot of our Fitchburg work is for landlords with student and multi-family rentals near the university, in housing stock old enough that the wiring plan matters as much as the camera plan.
Buildings with frequent tenant turnover generate a specific set of problems: damage nobody claims, disputes over what condition a unit or a common space was in, dumping in shared areas, and unauthorized people in entryways. Camera coverage of entries, hallways, driveways and trash areas resolves most of that.
It also protects the landlord in the other direction. A recorded entry log settles a security-deposit dispute in the owner's favour far more often than it does the reverse, provided the footage is retained long enough to still exist when the dispute surfaces — which is usually weeks later. We size storage for 60 days on rental properties for exactly that reason.
Much of Fitchburg's housing predates any thought of low-voltage cabling. Plaster over lath, balloon framing, knob-and-tube remnants, and additions built onto additions. Running clean concealed cable takes longer here than in newer construction, and installers who quote by camera count without seeing the building lose money and then cut corners.
We look at the actual routes during the walkthrough and quote the labour honestly. Where a run is genuinely not viable we use wire-free cameras, but we keep those off entry points where the wake-up delay would cost you the useful seconds.
Fitchburg is steep in places, and a driveway that slopes sharply changes camera geometry — a mount that would give you a face on flat ground gives you a roofline on a hill. It is a small thing that ruins a lot of installs, and it is why we do not quote from photos.
Sixty days on rental property. Disputes over damage, deposits and common-area incidents almost never surface immediately — they come up weeks later, often at move-out. Thirty days of retention regularly means the footage expired the week before anyone asked for it. We size the drive for 60.
Usually yes, but it takes longer than in modern construction, and we quote it that way rather than discovering it on the day. Plaster over lath and balloon framing make concealed runs slow. Where a run genuinely will not work we use wire-free cameras — but not on entry points, where the battery wake-up delay costs the seconds that matter.
In shared hallways, entries, driveways, laundry and trash areas, yes — no reasonable expectation of privacy applies there. Inside a unit, no. And audio stays disabled: Massachusetts requires all-party consent to record conversations, which a hallway microphone cannot obtain.
Free walkthrough, written plan, no obligation. If your current cameras are fine, we will say so.
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