ADT ADT refuses to help unhook system Cottonwood Heights Nationwide

All in all if I would have called them to put service in my name they would be more

than happy to do that.   It is unhooked now.  But theire sneaky way of making

sure the thing beeps so you call them is not my idea of business.   Can this be hooked up to someone 

else's program?   I just don't want to use ADT.   But may want a security system in the

future.  

Disconnect power from the unit. A few hours later the backup battery will be dead. Mission accomplished.

Unfortunately they are correct. 

If this alarm system was something you didn't want when you purchased the house, you should have made it a contingency on the sale for the previous owners to remove it.  Once you bought the house you bought the responsibility to have it removed.

Now, I won't say that their reason for not removing it for you is valid.  But the end result is the same, they are really under no obligation to remove the system.  You will find this very similar to other things such as Satellite Dishes(I can tell you that from personal experience). 

But they gave you instructions on how to power the system down.  If you are not comfortable doing that, find a neighbor/friend/relative or even just hire a handyman. 

As for all of the sensors, if these are like most other alarm systems.  Those are really just screwed into the walls/doors etc.  Where you can remove them and just cut the wire(since the system is powered down.  Then a simple patch and touch up of paint and you wouldn't even know the sensor is there.