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Phone line to tenanted house

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Anyone got 1st hand experience of the above. we are owners, house has phone socket but no connection to external line. We have agreed with tenant to pay for construction of external line from pole to house, but insist tenants pay for making internal connection live ie raccordement finale as Orange has said to give them their number etc. Tenant's are saying we will be sent law relating to this but I can't find anything that says we must pay for whole lot.
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It is the tenant who pays for the internal connection not the owner. You just have to provide possibility to connect a phone ( and even that is not obligatory if they rented knowing there wasn't one). The renter will be charged by orange the connection to their services.
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Thanks very much for the advice - confirmed what we believed, problem is tenants have taken off costs of estimates from our rent without asking (having signed estimates as proprietres! so how we get it back will be a challenge.

Thanks again.
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you need to send them a recorded letter demanding them to pay the difference or that you will charge interest as from the following month until it is paid. They cannot legally hold back any money and you can contact the caf to let them know that they are not paying the full amount of rent. Personally i would get a solicitor who specialises in this type of thing and do the necessary to get them out. If you wish to get your property back and not rent it again you can give bthem 6 months notice to get out.
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I thank you once again for your time and trouble in replying to my post. Regarding CAF, bit between 'rock and hard place' - we receive direct from CAF 60o/o of rent a month in arrears, don't want to prejudice that. We sent Avis recommande letter giving them notice to quit on 31 March to which we received a text 'Merci' (!) they are extremely unlikely to go, a second Avis recommande letter regarding money taken off rent has not been collected from post office. Ultimately we are probably going to have to accept ongoing 60o/o from CAF and eventual residue from tenants until tenancy expires on 25 October this year. If they don't pay us €138 then it will be taken off original deposit.
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Brian wrote:I thank you once again for your time and trouble in replying to my post. Regarding CAF, bit between 'rock and hard place' - we receive direct from CAF 60o/o of rent a month in arrears, don't want to prejudice that. We sent Avis recommande letter giving them notice to quit on 31 March to which we received a text 'Merci' (!) they are extremely unlikely to go, a second Avis recommande letter regarding money taken off rent has not been collected from post office. Ultimately we are probably going to have to accept ongoing 60o/o from CAF and eventual residue from tenants until tenancy expires on 25 October this year. If they don't pay us €138 then it will be taken off original deposit.
Do you have any strong reason to think they will actually go on 25/10? It is very close to the winter shutdown for eviction.

I have no idea of your precise situation. But my sister in Paris lived above neighbours from hell who span it out for a good 5 years. Despite successive boyfriends being hauled off to the Nick.
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