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We just spoke with the fair housing mediator whom we consult for tricky tenant issues. We asked him about preventing tenants access to certain utilities if it requires drilling a hole in a wall. Because the Internet has become "necessary" for normal life, landlords are now being required to allow the tenant to have one outlet professionally installed to provide this access, no matter what the leases say. The leases are being challenged in courts and are losing. So it's not a "law" per say for Internet, but denying access to utilities necessary for a home to be considered habitable is against the written law, and the internet is becoming a utility that is necessary. (It is becoming "case law".)
The landlord can hold the tenant responsible for returning the home to its original condition upon move-out, meaning the cable has to be removed and the hole patched professionally, at the tenant's expense, should the landlord want it removed.
hth.