scri8e
Mar 21, 2007, 07:34 AM
This may not be the best forum for this post. Please guide me to a better forum if one exists.
I have a 10 unit apartment building in Long Beach CA. All 1 bedroom units at that property. 2 story 5 up 5 down. The apartments do not have a private balcony. We have charter cable available for cable TV or cable internet. Meaning Charter cable has installed a access box on the building that is 2 foot x 2 1/2 foot approx. at the SW corner at the 2nd story level.
I have had requests in the past for DirecTV which I have granted. I now only allow a dish to be installed in one location the SW corner of the building. Yesterday I had a call from one of my Tenants with a installer there wanting permission from me. I laughed and told him it's not happening right this minute, in fact it's not happening today. You know you
have to have permission from the owner. So does my tenant. I talked with the tenant.
She understood. Told her I had some research to do. I would be back to her in a day or so.
I understand the wants of the Tenant and I do not want to deny her getting the service she wants.
I do have a problem with the installation methods some of these so called "installers" use.
This tenant had a dish installed YEARS ago on the fascia board in front of her apartment.
Now she wants a bigger a dish. I am thinking this is my opportunity to get her dish off the front of the building and with the other 2 dishes. One of which was left by a tenant that moved on last year.
I am also thinking, if I could get a package deal with a clean installation for all the units and if I could swing a IP camera to increase security in the courtyard communial area thrown in with the deal I might just go for that?
What other options are available for the building as a whole? Pros and cons of
one dish for a small building?
Pros and cons of Charter verses DirecTV?
My mind, ears and eyes are open.
Let it rip.
I have a 10 unit apartment building in Long Beach CA. All 1 bedroom units at that property. 2 story 5 up 5 down. The apartments do not have a private balcony. We have charter cable available for cable TV or cable internet. Meaning Charter cable has installed a access box on the building that is 2 foot x 2 1/2 foot approx. at the SW corner at the 2nd story level.
I have had requests in the past for DirecTV which I have granted. I now only allow a dish to be installed in one location the SW corner of the building. Yesterday I had a call from one of my Tenants with a installer there wanting permission from me. I laughed and told him it's not happening right this minute, in fact it's not happening today. You know you
have to have permission from the owner. So does my tenant. I talked with the tenant.
She understood. Told her I had some research to do. I would be back to her in a day or so.
I understand the wants of the Tenant and I do not want to deny her getting the service she wants.
I do have a problem with the installation methods some of these so called "installers" use.
This tenant had a dish installed YEARS ago on the fascia board in front of her apartment.
Now she wants a bigger a dish. I am thinking this is my opportunity to get her dish off the front of the building and with the other 2 dishes. One of which was left by a tenant that moved on last year.
I am also thinking, if I could get a package deal with a clean installation for all the units and if I could swing a IP camera to increase security in the courtyard communial area thrown in with the deal I might just go for that?
What other options are available for the building as a whole? Pros and cons of
one dish for a small building?
Pros and cons of Charter verses DirecTV?
My mind, ears and eyes are open.
Let it rip.