Customer stuck with bill after failed inspection

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When a Millburn homeowner was ready to sell his home, he was in for a big surprise. His fire alarm system didn’t pass inspection. He had a new system installed in 2011, but ADT, the company that did the work, left his old hard-wired system behind, causing the failed inspection. But whose responsibility was it to make sure the system was up to code?

To learn more about this debacle and what’s required by the fire code, read this Bamboozled column on NJ.com.

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