You’ll pay for all this high-tech security, though. You’ll pay literally in terms of price – Vivint equipment is expensive ...

Vivint’s solar power purchase agreement (PPA) is a financing option that lets you go solar with little or no money down. You just need to pay a specified price for the power that's generated.

Founder Pedersen created Vivint, under the name APX Alarm, as a home security company in 1999. The company was acquired by The Blackstone Group in 2012 for more than $2 billion.