If there is a power surge in my tenants apartment either from my circuit breakers reseting or mother nature is ( lanlords) responsible for tvs or computers that get fried? State Specific Question About: MASSACHUSETTS (MA)

If the manufacturer doesn't have to cover surge damage, then why should you have to. Tenants should know that as much of their electronic equipment as possible should be on independent surge protectors.

Our close friends have a house on Cape Cod. When the power came back on, after an outage, a surge blew out the cable wiring, TV and equipment, and every kitchen appliance. (House was only about a year old.) Then they installed surge protectors.

In a rental property that supplies appliances, I would think it is up to the landlord to pay for replacement of kitchen appliances.

Another source of power surges are from solar activity. The sun actually throws some of its matter into the solar system. If you go to Space Weather dote come you can read the warnings when they are likely to happen. Sometimes there are a couple of hours notice.

Two weeks ago we missed having our satellites and communications systems damaged by a really big one of these Coronal Mass Ejections CME. Our planet had moved just a bit out of range of the thing. If it had hit us it would have burnt up transformers and started fires as well as causing major blackouts and damaging large transformers that could have taken weeks or months to repair. Unfortunately the people who run the grid haven't taken as many precautions as they should or invented solutions.

There was an eruption that big in the late 1890s that burnt out telegraph equipment, made the actual wires hot and burned some offices killing some people. It's called the Carrington Event. We are not safe from Mother Nature no matter where we live.

Send all tenants a certified letter that they should use surge protectors on all of their equipment due to solar activity dangers and that you will not be responsible for anything not protected.

I tell all of my tenants that they should protect their electronics with a surge suppressor, cost around $3.00 each.

One day the Utility company was going to change the over head line from the main street over to my apartment building. Since we were the last building on the block and the largest, our power doesn't come from the block run power, instead from the main high voltage line with a drop down transformer.

I tried to reach all of my tenants by cell phone and get their permission to turn off their computers and disconnect important stuff while the lines were being worked on. I couldn't reach all of my tenants but went into their units to protect their electronics.

When one tenant came home and head my message she was mad at me. Wrote me a letter that I never ever can enter her unit unless it's an emergency with my building. She screamed at me and tell everyone I was wrong.

A week later the utility was going to change the step down transformer and turn off the power again. I did nothing, told the tenant that were home about the shut down.

All of the other tenants had purchased surge suppressors except for the tenant who balled me out. When she came home, she found her computer fried and lost all important data with no back up.