RE: Letting a flat with sophisticated home automation ...

["Hawes,Timothy Edward \(GEG\)" <haweste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Juan,

I'm not a lawyer, letting agent, or landlord, and all this is IMO, but .
. :-)

Were I renting that property I would expect the landlord to cover all of
those items, and the rental price to reflect the "features" of
the
property. The only slight hesitation I had was if the music system was a
hard-disk-jukebox-type player onto which the tenant could load their own
music. IMO that ends up as a grey area - who pays if that goes wrong??
was it a latent fault with the equipment or was it user error?

HTH,

Tim.
p.s. are there any online pictures or details of the flat we can look
through?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Juan Amador
>
> A legal question.
>
> A friend of mine is about to let out a flat which has a fair
> amount of HA built-in (integrated alarm, lighting control,
> whole-house sound
> system, broadband/cat5e/wireless and TV distribution).   Some
> of which we did for him.
>
> Does anybody know what the "standard" tenancy terms for this
> equipment are?  Is responsibility of the landlord of maintain
> this?  all or some? Should the tenant sign an additional
> maintenance contract for say, the maintenance of the alarm system?
>
> Any help will be very much appreciated.
>
> J Amador
> Wizard Control