I just got a new tenant in my rental house and this time I had to add a clause to the lease enumerating brands of lithium-ion batteries the tenant is allowed to keep on the premises. These things are basically grenades that you can buy for $2 on Temu. Stronger regulations needed.
Won't help much. Way too much cheap lithium ion crap with incapsulated batteries is flooding the markets
It does help. It raise the opportunity to discuss it, which is helpful because not everyone is aware that this is a problem, and like many other lease clauses it is there to assign blame in case an exceptionally bad event comes to pass.
Nah, tenants will sign just to move in, and forget about this clause. Just like any tenant that smokes weed disregards no drug clauses. Tenants are going to do what tenants do. Unless you're doing routine walk throughs looking at every single thing in the place that could use a battery, then you'll never know. It's a useless "regulation", and we have plenty of those in the world already.
It's wrong to have an unjustified low opinions of tenants as a class. They are normal, well-meaning, intelligent people like any other.