Does the tenant have exclusive right to the area of the roof where you mounted the antenna or is it a shared area among tenants? Does the landlord own multiple units there or just the unit where you installed the antenna? Its obviously an OTARD issue and I would tell the landlord to pound sand. Apparently there is some part of OTARD that states you can't cause damage but the burden of proof that "damage" was caused is on the landlord. John Woodfield, President Delmarva WiFi Inc. 410-870-WiFi
-----Original Message----- From: "Darin Steffl" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 3:56pm To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "Principal WISPA Member List" <[email protected]> Subject: [AFMUG] Angry landlord over Roof mount antenna Hey all, So I got an angry call from a owner of a townhouse who rents it out to one of our new internet customers. We were never made aware the home was a rental in any way. Our techs always ask permission on where to mount the dish and bring in the wire and they were given approval to mount the dish on the roof and drill a hole for the wire. If it was a rental, we would have talked to the landlord. The home owner now wants us to remove the dish, cable, and holes and restore everything to original condition. He wants new siding, new shingles, the whole works. I don't exactly know how I should handle this situation. We won't be pulling the mount off the roof because it is sealed if we leave it there. We can't move the dish because the signal is only good there. Do we have any sort of protection from OTARD or anything that allows us to keep things in place since we were given permission from the tenant? Ideas or ways to handle this smoothly? We are not going to pay for new siding or roofing when we were given permission to install. If anything, the tenant would be responsible since we did the work on their behalf. -- Darin Steffl Minnesota WiFi [ www.mnwifi.com ]( http://www.mnwifi.com/ ) 507-634-WiFi [ ]( http://www.facebook.com/minnesotawifi ) [ Like us on Facebook ]( http://www.facebook.com/minnesotawifi )
