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DirecTV contract question

GlaealGlaeal Registered User regular
edited January 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
Is my DirecTV contract void if I move, or do I have to pay a termination fee?

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  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Glaeal wrote:
    Is my DirecTV contract void if I move, or do I have to pay a termination fee?
    It usually moves with you.

    Generally, if you move and terminate something like that, you have to pay the fee. If you move and keep it, you don't.

    Read the contract to be sure, though, I'd say you most likely have to pay it.

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  • RaggaholicRaggaholic Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Call DirectTV and tell them that you're moving, and that your landlord won't allow you to put up a dish. From what I know of DirectTV (and someone who used to do their installs), they'll let you get out of your contract without a termination fee due to that.

    Of course, if they call bullshit on you (since no landlord can stop you from putting up a dish), tell them that the landlord will require a $500 deposit for a dish, which is basically not letting you put one up.

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  • GlaealGlaeal Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    If I claimed that, due to the placement of trees around the house, I couldn't get a clear look at the satellites, would they actually send someone out to check?

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  • SlapnutsSlapnuts Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Raggaholic wrote:
    (since no landlord can stop you from putting up a dish),

    Wait, what?

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  • SlapnutsSlapnuts Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Glaeal wrote:
    If I claimed that, due to the placement of trees around the house, I couldn't get a clear look at the satellites, would they actually send someone out to check?

    They have local companies contracted to do their installs. I don't think those companies would be amused if DirecTV told them to go to someone's house to make sure they aren't lying about the foliage.

    Plus, I really don't think they have their shit together enough to even think about pulling something like that off.

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  • RaggaholicRaggaholic Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Slapnuts wrote:
    Raggaholic wrote:
    (since no landlord can stop you from putting up a dish),

    Wait, what?
    If you are in the US, no landlord or home association can stop you from putting up a dish. The FCC regulations cover this and it trumps both rental agreements and homeowner's association bylaws.

    The landlord can only restrict you from placing the dish in a public area. If you have a balcony/patio/etc, then you're in the free and clear. Than can, however, require that you pay a deposit or a carry renter's insurance in case of damage.

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  • naporeonnaporeon Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Raggaholic wrote:
    Slapnuts wrote:
    Raggaholic wrote:
    (since no landlord can stop you from putting up a dish),

    Wait, what?
    If you are in the US, no landlord or home association can stop you from putting up a dish. The FCC regulations cover this and it trumps both rental agreements and homeowner's association bylaws.

    The landlord can only restrict you from placing the dish in a public area. If you have a balcony/patio/etc, then you're in the free and clear. Than can, however, require that you pay a deposit or a carry renter's insurance in case of damage.
    I'm not claiming that you're wrong, but I know from personal experience that DirecTV has on at least one occasion refused to install a dish in precisely the location you describe, stating that they needed the landlord to either A) be present at the time of installation, or B) provide a signed and dated release. Essentially, they said that they needed his blessing to do it.

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  • SlapnutsSlapnuts Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    naporeon wrote:
    Raggaholic wrote:
    Slapnuts wrote:
    Raggaholic wrote:
    (since no landlord can stop you from putting up a dish),

    Wait, what?
    If you are in the US, no landlord or home association can stop you from putting up a dish. The FCC regulations cover this and it trumps both rental agreements and homeowner's association bylaws.

    The landlord can only restrict you from placing the dish in a public area. If you have a balcony/patio/etc, then you're in the free and clear. Than can, however, require that you pay a deposit or a carry renter's insurance in case of damage.
    I'm not claiming that you're wrong, but I know from personal experience that DirecTV has on at least one occasion refused to install a dish in precisely the location you describe, stating that they needed the landlord to either A) be present at the time of installation, or B) provide a signed and dated release. Essentially, they said that they needed his blessing to do it.

    Yeah I'm not so sure about installing it sans landlord permission either. I just had it hooked up in December.

    Luckily I have a cool landlord who let me put it on the roof. But the first guy who came to do the installation was pretty uneasy about putting it up without my landlords being there for the process (I also think he was a lazy piece of shit who didn't want to climb the ladder to do the install, as was later confirmed by the next guy who came to install it.) But, I don't rent any part of the outside of the building so how can I use it to hook something that benefits only me up?

    So maybe its just the state you used to install the dishes in that has this law that gives the power back to the people. But I'm pretty sure, in New York at least, that you have to have your landlord's permission to do anything to the outside of their building.

    But seriously, could you point me to where the FCC says that I can put a dish up on a building I don't own? My brother's landlord is being a dick about him getting a dish.

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  • SlapnutsSlapnuts Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Well I'll be god damned.

    http://nreionline.com/mag/real_estate_fcc_issues_new/


    However, after reading that, it would seem as though you can't actually install the dish to the outside of the building if you don't have a balcony (which, incidentally, you can't hang the dish out from). You have to anchor it in your apartment somehow.
    But, what is reasonable? First, the regulations continue to prohibit several types of installations. These include: No dishes or antennas may be mounted on a building roof or in common areas such as balconies or stairways. No holes may be drilled in any outside walls or through glass. A resident does not have the right to pierce the outer shell of a building. Instead, they must use a flat cable that goes under a sliding door or a suction-type device applied to a window. Dishes or antennas may not hang out over a balcony or be mounted on extension devices that do so. Residents do not have the right to demand that wireless service be provided to all residents of the building. While some owners can provide such service to preclude residents from installing their own dishes, this solution is only workable in the very rare circumstance that the owners can provide every channel the resident could obtain through a satellite dish at the same cost.

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  • RaggaholicRaggaholic Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Slapnuts wrote:
    Well I'll be god damned.

    http://nreionline.com/mag/real_estate_fcc_issues_new/
    Exactly.

    Most people don't know that a landlord cannot prohibit you from putting up a dish. FCC regulations preempt them from doing it. Dish Network has a website somewhere explaining why they still ask for a management sign off, though. I can't find it.

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