Television reception who is responsible?

Hi Paul,
How long have your tenants been living there ? and how long do you want them to remain ? Whatever your answers my suggestions are to get it sorted out as soon as possible. It surely won’t be that much cost wise but will keep a good tenant in your property. You don;t need anyone to tell you that a few pounds spent now will perhaps save you having a void period when they get so fed up with the TV reception. Don’t delay, sort it today. Good luck. Mike.

I agree with Mike. I had a similar issue with new tenants once. There was only a satellite dish and no aerial. This was probably because it was a bad signal area and the person I bought the house from had the dish put up for this reason. I hadn’t given it much thought until the tenants complained a week after moving in. They didn’t have a receiver box, so couldn’t use the dish. I thought that really they should provide the box as if your TV isn’t freeview enabled you would buy a freeview box and not expect the landlord to provide one. However, for the sake of less than £50 for a secondhand one, I bought one for them to keep them happy. On this occasion it didn’t really matter because they only stayed for 6 months anyway and weren’t the best tenants. But who knows, they may have turned out to be fantastic but could have moved out over this ‘dispute’ had I not made a bit of an effort.

Freesat dish?