Tenant wants to install ceiling fans

[Adam Batcheller]

My tenant wants to put ceiling fans in the unit he is renting from me. He said, he would buy the fans and his brother, who is an electrician, would do the wiring and install the fans for free. There is no ceiling lighting now so the electrician would have to do the wiring from the switch box on the wall to ceiling.

My question is, 1) should I allow him to do it ? 2)Get the electrician’s license number. 3) reimburse the tenant by way of paying less rent?

[Shannon Slade]

If you want to install fans for the tenant then hire your own electrical contractor.  Nothing more dangerous than having Tenants bro-in-law who is an "electrician" install some jacked up wiring in YOUR house.  This is advice from a licensed master electrician (Me).  The only thing electrical we allow our tenants to do is change light bulbs.