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From: jlw@lznv.ATT.COM (J.L.WOOD)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,misc.consumers
Subject: Re: Inside Telco wiring
Summary: It's the landlord's responsibility
Message-ID: <1509@lznv.ATT.COM>
Date: 24 Nov 88 12:51:05 GMT
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I think that there can be no question that in a rental property that the
responsibility for inside telephone wiring is with the landlord.
Pretty much universally (your state may, but probably doesn't, differ)
all permanent changes, alterations, improvements, and repairs to the
leasehold become the property of the property owner.  This includes
such trivialities as curtain rods, towel bars, etc.  Also a paint job,
but if the landlord doesn't think that the color or quality of workmanship
is to his liking, he can make you pay for a repaint job, or other repair
becomes his.  There is a fairly famous case in which a tenant farmer
made significant improvements to the quality of the soil of a farm
and repaired the farmhouse and fixed up and added outbuildings and barns.
The property owner then raised the farmer's rent with the next lease to
the point where the tenant farmer couldn't afford the farm any more.
The only thing he was allowed to do was to take the portable equipment
he actually owned plus his livestock.  If he'd destroyed or damaged
any of the buildings he had worked on, it would have been considered
malicious vandalism.

Getting back to telco wiring.  Given the above then the inside wiring
must be either the landlord's responsibility or under contract to the telco
by the landlord.  I cannot see a landlord doing the latter.


Just my opinion.

Joe Wood
jlw@lznv.ATT.COM