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

["Shola Ogunlokun" <internet_security_consultant@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

As a Landlord, I would agree with Tim, if I put it in, then I have
to maintain it.

Your friend will have to weigh the price he is charging against what
he has invested, and decide if he wants to take the risk.

Remember the landlord will not be able to charge for reasonable wear
and tear on equipment, and with electronic equipment it might be
hard to prove if some faults were down to component failure or user
error.

A tentant will not be expected to pay any additional ongoing charges
for an alarm even if it is monitored, this has to be built into the
rent.

Shola Ogunlokun
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--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Hawes,Timothy Edward \(GEG\)"
<haweste@a...> wrote:
>  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?