HOA and community security in Orlando
Six patterns cover almost every community that calls. Boards usually arrive wanting the first one and leave with a mix of the others, because the entrance is rarely where the money does the most work.
Why boards keep Nexus Security Firm on the list
The license number is on the page and the state confirms it
Nexus Security Firm holds FDACS Class B agency license B 1900066, and the Division of Licensing publishes a search any owner can run from a phone during a meeting. Individual officers hold their own Class D licenses, and armed officers hold a Class G on top of it. A board that asks three bidders for an agency license number and gets two sets of vague assurances has learned something useful about all three.
A Florida Class D license requires 40 hours of FDACS-approved training and is valid two years (FDACS Division of Licensing).
You get the annual figure, the per home figure and the cheaper options
Every quote we send an association shows the hourly rate, the weekly hours, the annual total and what that total works out to per home per month. A 24 hour gate post spread across 400 homes is roughly $44 to $62 a month per owner, and across 200 homes it doubles. Boards need that number before the meeting, because an owner will do the division in the room and the board should be the one who did it first.
Security bill rates run 1.5 to 2 times the officer wage, with officer pay near 70 percent of the rate (Belfry Software, 2026).
A supervisor is assigned to every post and attends it
Residential posts fail in the small hours, and they fail the same way every time: an officer working a second shift back to back with nobody checking the booth. Every post we staff has a supervisor assigned to it who attends it, including overnight, and dispatch is staffed 24 hours a day so a callout reaches a person. Incidents are documented and the documentation goes to the board, which is what a manager needs when an owner complains six weeks later.
Guard industry turnover reached 77 percent in 2024, up from 69.3 percent in 2019 (ASIS International).