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Avoiding phone line disconnection between tenants

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  • 11-10-2019 4:20pm
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    xxxSedgexxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13 ✭


    Hi,

    Question for landlords: How do you avoid the phone line (and broadband) being disconnected between tenancies? If a tenant leaves and cancels their phone and broadband accounts this will result in phone line being disconnected (and therefore alarm system which uses phone line) until next tenant sets up new account.

    Thank you in advance for your replies.

    Regards,
    John
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    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,923 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    You get a GSM alarm instead; or decide to be liable for the risk of the line being in your name. Tenants aren't going to leave a line active that they're paying for

    Unless the alarm is antique or awful it will have a GSM module available for it and there are external adapters also available


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    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,621 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    Put the line and broadband in tour name and charge for it extra or as part of the rent. It will be an allowable expense anyway.


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    sunnysoutheast
    Registered Users Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭sunnysoutheast


    kceire wrote: »
    Put the line and broadband in tour name and charge for it extra or as part of the rent. It will be an allowable expense anyway.

    Absolutely no way on Earth would I have phone or particularly broadband in my name without any control over what happens with it.

    I think the only way is to separate the alarm via GSM as said earlier.

    Then let the tenants sort out their own service.


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    L1011
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    Should add that if you put an external GSM adapter in you need to make sure it (and the cable going to it) are completely inaccessible lest you get a particularly devious tenant who realises what it is and wants to make phone calls on it. Prepay, no data, and set up international call barring and premium rate barring with the operator.


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    Mrs OBumble
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    Who has a landline anymore anyways????


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    sunnysoutheast
    Registered Users Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭sunnysoutheast


    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    Who has a landline anymore anyways????

    We have one as part of the "package" but I don't think anyone has made an outgoing call on it since about 2017.

    With Eir there weren't any packages we could get that didn't include a landline, not sure if that's changed since.


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    crossmolinalad
    Registered Users Posts: 837 ✭✭✭crossmolinalad


    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    Who has a landline anymore anyways????

    More people that you can think of
    Have fiber internet with free landline (phoneline)


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    crossmolinalad
    Registered Users Posts: 837 ✭✭✭crossmolinalad


    sunnysoutheast wrote: »
    We have one as part of the "package" but I don't think anyone has made an outgoing call on it since about 2017.

    With Eir there weren't any packages we could get that didn't include a landline, not sure if that's changed since.

    When were home we switch off the smartphone an use the landline
    Small amount of people knows the number , its so rest giving and quiet in the house


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    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    FTTC uses the Landline to deliver broadband. Even if there is no voice service on the line.


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