This article is a bunch of crap - well, maybe (Score 1)

I currently work for a property management company here in San Diego. We've had plenty of turnover in the last year or so, as a set of our buildings hit 5 years old, and we had several 5 year leases. Most of them were tech companies, or brokerage houses, which always have tons of network equipment and drops all throughout their space. We write our leases to include a little phrase that states they must remove all cabling, unless excluded in writing from the management company, upon exiting the building. And you know what? We stick to it. There's nothing worse for me or my guys than going up in a ceiling littered with wires - especially when a tenant half asses it and doesn't secure their wiring right, or leaves tons of unused cabling in the ceiling 'just in case.' This seems like it would be a pretty standard practice, and any owner / manager that doesn't have a clause like this in their lease is either lazy, or stupid, or both. The only exception to this is when we had a tenant go tits up. We just had to try to find a tenant that wanted the space as is, cabling and all. Fortunately we found one that wanted the whole floor and just dozed the place anyway.