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S. Perry
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No land line in rental

S. Perry
  • Central, OH
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Currently in the process of getting a SFH ready to rent. This week we realized there were no land line connections in the home. The house underwent renovations prior to our purchase and neighbors have told us there was a lot of drywall work done. We know the connections are coming into the home via the basement and can only assume they are in the walls but hidden by the new drywall.
For the life of me I can't locate anything relating to whether or not a land line telephone connection is a requirement for a LL in my state (Ohio).
If this isn't a requirement and we don't correct the issue I can see it being an additional cost to the tenant should they want this service.
I've contacted a local telephone provider and the only assistance they can give me is if I were to start service with them. They would happily come to the home and run the lines for a fee in addition to the monthly service which we are not interested in starting.
I am currently waiting on a response to this from my PM but thought I would get others opinions here as well.
If this isn't a required utility we can choose to do nothing and perhaps a tenant isn't even interested in a land line. They might want one and we could cover the cost as well as making sure we approve of where the holes are made and how many, split the cost or have them foot the entire bill?

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Rob K.
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Rob K.
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Many of my tenants have "free" Obama phones. They wouldn't know a landline if I beat them with a handset from a rotary phone.

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