Our tenant's complaining about crackling on the landline. They have booked an engineer to come and check for a fault. If the fault is within the property there will be a £130 call out fee. Who is responsible for paying this?
Part of me thinks it should be the landlord's responsibility if the wiring/socket is faulty, however the other part of me thinks that as the landline is not considered an 'essential' service (like gas, water, electricity) then it should be the tenant's responsibility. Particularly given the line is actually working, just not as good quality as they would like.
We don't want to be unfair to our tenant, but equally don't want to pay additional charges if not strictly our responsibility.
Any thoughts?
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Who pays BT call out fee - landlord or tenant?
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cazzabazza · 19/04/2015 20:45
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