Do you allow pictures/TV’s on walls?

Landlord Discussion
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As a landlord, I tend to let tenants make a house their own within reason. The only thing we’ve ever been ‘protective’ of is the kitchen units because of how expensive a kitchen is. That said, our last tenant still took it upon themselves to replace our kitchen cupboard door handles with tacky ones and threw ours in the bin.

Anyway, I wanted to ask whether you generally allow tenants to wall mount TV’s? What about hanging pictures?

We have lived in one rented house where the landlord let us do everything we wanted but we’ve also lived in a house where the landlord has been super protective and not wanted us to change a thing, but with wall mounted TV’s being a more ‘normal’ thing now, is it right or fair to object to it?

Taking it one step further, would you allow a tenant to get the cables fished behind the wall (by a competent electrician)?

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We don’t.But our TT don’t ask us. Those who hammer nails in the walls, do it without informing. When they more out, we fill the holes. It’s not expensive but requires a repainting.

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Tenants shouldn’t really be puncturing the walls with nails and screws unnecessarily. They should use command strips for pictures which can easily be removed without leaving any blemishes on the walls. I have wall mounted the TV in my own house so wouldn’t be totally adverse to a tenant that requested doing the same. The TV bracket would become a fixture of the property which I would want for it to remain if and when the tenant leaves. In which case I would be inclined to pay for the bracket myself and add it to the inventory and come to an arrangement with the tenant for getting it professionally installed.