just wanted to let you know that I have 4 dishes on the side of my garage. 2 directv and 1 dish plus one directv on my roof. Everytime I call to have a new dish installed the installer tells me that the dish and lnb is mine . Only time I had to have a lnb uninstalled was when I had dishnetwork. Directv says since you paid for it it's now yours.
Neighbor taking satellite signal??
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There is no debating whether it is the landlord's or the renter's or directv's or my or your property, in this case it doesn't matter. the lease that was signed says the renter must take the dish away when he moves out.
The title of this thread needs to be changed. It has absolutely nothing to do with a neighbor taking your satellite signal. This thread would have died a long time ago, which it needs to do, if it hadn't been for the misleading title sparking people's interest.
Molehills to mountains.
This all just seems ridiculously overblown. It's a satellite dish. There are a number of outstanding, unanswered questions, and a few discrepancies, but the core issue seems simple enough. Yes, there could be ramifications, and yes, they should be clarified before moving further. But there is nothing illegal or ultimately unwise about sharing a satellite dish antenna (and he could probably manage to get DirecTV to throw in a free protection plan on his account to cover any unlikely potential problems). Any landlord that has allowed one dish is almost certainly going to be amenable to allowing tenants to share one antenna rather than allow a proliferation of dishes.
With a few minutes of clarification, this could have been win-win-win-win (poster gets free protection plan, DirecTV gets a new customer, new customer gets service apparently without line-of-sight, and landlord adds a perk for residents with minimal dish proliferation). Instead, everybody appears to be acting in ignorance and selfishness, and nobody wins.
In an apartment building, you don't get good fences, so you ought to do whatever else you can to make good neighbors. The original poster didn't, and with some encouragement here (cutting cables, calling police, Judge Judy), he seems to be on a path to escalate the situation negatively.
The police would take your report and place it in File 13. Judy Judy would be annoyed by the trivialness and lack of goodwill.
This all just seems ridiculously overblown. It's a satellite dish. There are a number of outstanding, unanswered questions, and a few discrepancies, but the core issue seems simple enough. Yes, there could be ramifications, and yes, they should be clarified before moving further. But there is nothing illegal or ultimately unwise about sharing a satellite dish antenna (and he could probably manage to get DirecTV to throw in a free protection plan on his account to cover any unlikely potential problems). Any landlord that has allowed one dish is almost certainly going to be amenable to allowing tenants to share one antenna rather than allow a proliferation of dishes.
With a few minutes of clarification, this could have been win-win-win-win (poster gets free protection plan, DirecTV gets a new customer, new customer gets service apparently without line-of-sight, and landlord adds a perk for residents with minimal dish proliferation). Instead, everybody appears to be acting in ignorance and selfishness, and nobody wins.
In an apartment building, you don't get good fences, so you ought to do whatever else you can to make good neighbors. The original poster didn't, and with some encouragement here (cutting cables, calling police, Judge Judy), he seems to be on a path to escalate the situation negatively.
The police would take your report and place it in File 13. Judy Judy would be annoyed by the trivialness and lack of goodwill.
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I guess from your point of view it doesn't matter that he said NO!!!!!
No should have been the end of it!!!!
Yes, you have!
Like I said in my first post, let's see what the management said to the installer about this, if indeed they ever even spoke. The op hasn't had a chance to address that, yet. I see this as the crux of the issue.
There actually is. It comes down to who is responsible for it should something go wrong.
My thought would be easiest way to deal with the neighbor is to disconnect his lines and if he comes over and bitches about it tell him you were having signal issues with your dish and you noticed the new lines in Your Dish that should not have been there and that when you removed them the signal issues were fixed for your system. Most normal people don't have a clue about how satellite or TV actually works just that it works. So this way, they won't have a clue and they won't get pissy about it. Easiest way to deal with them. Keeps the peace and no one gets shot at.
My concern would be that I already said no. Also I know from experience that the LNB can fail so who pays for the service call or the LNB if you do it yourself? Kinda like the time my dad and I shared the same well...when the pump broke we had the agreement in place to split the cost of repair. So not really an issue of being neighborly or anything.
Leave it out there day in and day out. If im a resident, i'll take it. In court, make sure you tell the judge you intentionally leave your personal belongings in the commons area. I wonder what the judge will have to say about that.
The OP paid for the dish and install. Somebody is trying to get something for nothing(the neighbor). You are right that is what is wrong with this country. Next time you buy a new car let me know so I can share it with you. On your dime of course.
He'll say you're a thief. It is not my responsibility to secure the item, it's your responsibility to not be a damn thief.
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