greentiger1326 t1_iydaa83 wrote
As a maintenance supervisor with almost 200 apartments. I must speak on this. Key control is one of my pet peeves. While we do hand out copies of one certain key to our vendors (contractors), that key only opens certain doors. The key to your apartment I literally create the day before you move in. The locks on your apartment are changed when you leave. Anytime the key copy that I keep in my office leaves that office, The individual who took it has to give us their ID, and depending upon the work being done I have to accompany them. I do an inventory of every key in that box once a month. If someone breaks into your apartment, the first thing I do is change your lock and throw out every copy of the old key that I had. We keep copies of your keys in case of emergencies. We need access to every apartment in the building in case of flood fire or injury. If you change your locks, and I don't have copy of your key, and your pipes burst, either I or the fire department is going to have to break open your door. Also, it's probably in your lease that you can't change your keys. This is not a great LPT.
RallyX26 t1_iydc1up wrote
You are better than 99% of the maintenance managers I've encountered. I always made sure that I abided by the contract I signed, which (in my case) always stipulated that you may change the locks but you must give notice and provide (usually two) keys to the management.
In my state, by law a landlord must give at least 12 hours notice to tenants before making a non-emergency entry, but multiple times I came home to muddy boot prints on my floor (one time it was paint, which was fun). No notice was given, and no note was left explaining the reason for entry.
It's good that you have high standards and trust yourself to stick to them, but even if I'm your tenant, I don't know you from Adam and I would rather trust myself to give you a key that is impossible for you to copy. No offense, but you're not looking at this from the perspective of a tenant.
MyNameIsSkittles t1_iydkuqb wrote
Why aren't you reporting your landlord to your tenancy authority?
This is why slumlords do what they do. No one reports their ass
RallyX26 t1_iydzc6n wrote
Because this was 8 years ago and I didn't know about tenancy authorities
MyNameIsSkittles t1_iydznk8 wrote
Right so the LPT would be: learn who your tenancy authority is and learn the tenancy laws. Report landlords for not following them
You don't just go change the locks. For most people that would result in eviction
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