Had not thought about that. In reality with this situation he would have no control over on and off except for the entire system. His actual thoughts whether legal or not was simply a value added item just as the apartment complexes here in Indy include cable with their rents. His increase in rents was mainly to cover expense of installing, maintaining and growing the channel list of the system.
Something to help give an advantage over other landlords. Personally I would liken it to a bar. He owns all the trailers just as the bar owner (for all practical purposes) owns the bar. You pay a little extra per drink for those 42 tv's running
DTV.