An unchanged credential allows anyone to virtually control door locks and elevators at dozens of apartment buildings across North America, a security researcher found.
You could probably arrange that if you really tried, and it would be easier with an individual landlord; but barring the tenant from changing the locks (without express written consent) is a pretty standard lease clause. Building management companies don’t want to deal with swapping locks all the time and keeping track of changing keys, especially when there’s 200+ units on the property. They’re usually pretty rigid with the terms of the lease.
yea, for multi unit complexes like apartments, I assume that it could be in place cause the LL likely has a master key that works across all doors as well
I’m amazed that your LL is against you replacing it out of your own funds and providing them a key. That’s so dumb.
You could probably arrange that if you really tried, and it would be easier with an individual landlord; but barring the tenant from changing the locks (without express written consent) is a pretty standard lease clause. Building management companies don’t want to deal with swapping locks all the time and keeping track of changing keys, especially when there’s 200+ units on the property. They’re usually pretty rigid with the terms of the lease.
yea, for multi unit complexes like apartments, I assume that it could be in place cause the LL likely has a master key that works across all doors as well
Also possibly basement access or similar things that work with all the apartment keys.