What canI do if my tenants installed a satellite dish on my new roof?
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What canI do if my tenants installed a satellite dish on my new roof?
The people renting my house installed a dish on my new $8500 roof without my permission or consent. Can I take it down and throw it out? What are they responsilble to fix? The house also has a 1 inch hole in it for the wires.
Asked on November 9, 2011 under Real Estate Law, New York
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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
The first thing that you need to do about the situation is to have a face to face talk with your tenants about why they installed the satellite dish on your roof without your permission, written or otherwise.
Follow up the conversation with a written letter memorializing what happened and keep a copy of it for future use.
Have a roofer look at the roof to see if there is any damage caused by the installation. If there is damage, have the installer and the tenants pay for the damage and the charge of the roofer for the inspection.
Depending upon what your written lease (assuming you have one) states about improvements by the tenant without permission, you then make the decision as to whether the dish stays or leaves. Good luck.
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