[Psa1000]

Originally Posted by John_W

Directv is free installation and no hookup charge. Directv contracts their install to a third party called Mastec, so they can recover their costs you'll be required to sign either a 12 month or 24 month contract. Once you get through the inital contract, you won't have to sign another unless you want to upgrade your equipment, so instead of just a standard HD box, you might want a DVR, or a DVR with 4K capability, get the most equipment you can get in the beginning. I've been with them since 2008. I didn't have a DVR initially, so when I got a DVR a few years ago I had to sign a new 24 month contract. It's not that I want to leave them for someone else, it's they won't bargain with you as easily. Like this season, I've got $60 a month discounted off my premier package (the most channels) and I've got NFL Sunday Ticket free this year, because I called them and bargained with them. If I was still under contract, they most likely wouldn't of given me any discounts. As a new customer, generally if you sign up in June, July, August or September they'll give you NFL Sunday Ticket for free the first year.

Once you've put 15% down on a new home and are close to settlement time, you'll get a packet in the mail about a month before closing that has all the phone numbers and estimated costs of everything you need to get into your new home. What you want to do now is, that search button at the top of this website. Before I had closing I had 20 pages of notes all from six months I spent on this website researching everything. The day after closing I had a painter inside my place painting, way before the furniture arrived. I had what I believed was the best painter available, Investment Painters. I had a handyman lined to put pulldown stairs in my garage attic, landscaper to come and give me ideas and estimates. I knew what nights were market nights at each squares and where to buy a lampost sign. I had every little mundane idea or job written down followed with names, phone numbers etc. You've got the right idea right now, but if you go through and write a post for everytime you have a question, you'll take forever and you might miss some good information. These questions come up every week and people get tired of writing the same responses. That's why a search is so good, you don't have to wait for 5 days so that 25 posters will write something, there are probably already 200 responses written to that question in past threads. Because if you can think of it, it's already been asked, there's over 115,000 people living in TV.

Yes - great advice!



Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk