Posted by James on January 13, 2008 at 10:24:19:
Great locks. It takes a few more seconds than the 3 they advertise.
Maybe 5 total.
I change them a little…I have alot of locks, so I take a permanent marker and put which # it is on the tumblers itself. They have a small sticker…which NEVER stays on. So, I mark them up in 3 places w/ permanent. It works great for me.
James
Keyless Electronic Door Lock - Posted by Peter Lee
Posted by Peter Lee on January 10, 2008 at 09:21:22:
Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone has ever using a Keyless Electronic Digital Door Lock for their rental? I’ve been renting out my house for about 5 years now, and ever time my tenant leave, I have to pay around $100 to have a locksmith re-key the locks.
So, to save money, I thought it would be wise to install a Keyless Electronic door lock.
Has anyone here done that? Are their any laws that permit a landlord from doing that?
Thanks.
Re: Keyless Electronic Door Lock - Posted by BobInIndy
Posted by BobInIndy on January 11, 2008 at 16:53:58:
We buy special ‘landlord locks’.
They allow us to change the tumblers in about 30 seconds. We reuse the tumblers in another home as soon as those tenants move out.
We have master keys and contractor keys so that we can allow painters, etc to enter.
Then we change the insert after the home is ready and voila, the homes have a new lock.
We have 6 different tumblers (inserts) so that we can rotate them between all of the rental homes.
This eliminates the issue of ‘did you change the locks when the last tenant moved out’.
And we don’t have to buy lots of keys etc.
The locks are keyed for us in our area.
This setup works great and doesn’t cost very much.
I don’t know if they will allow the web site…
www.landlordlocks.com
Another option, non elec. - Posted by John Merchant
Posted by John Merchant on January 10, 2008 at 14:36:06:
For a long time now, I’ve been using a punch button front door lock on one of my properties and it just takes a few minutes to change the combo as & when needed.
Non electric, no batteries to change, these are available through lots of lock-smiths and cost is probably much less than elec. combo locks
Re: Keyless Electronic Door Lock - Posted by michaela-CA
Posted by michaela-CA on January 10, 2008 at 13:02:28:
I guess one way to deal with the battery issue would be to give a certain number of batteries to your tenant when they move in and instruct them to change the batteries every 3 or 4 or whatever months. Have that in the lease. So, if they then forget it’s they money that goes to the locksmith.
Michaela
Re: Keyless Electronic Door Lock - Posted by John Behle
Posted by John Behle on January 10, 2008 at 10:16:29:
As Rich mentioned, the problem can be with the batteries. They don’t always give much warning and when they go out, the door stays locked - resulting in a call to you from the tenant. Some kinds also have keys which would defeat your purpose if given to the tenant, but would give you a way in if the batteries fail. In the end, you would end up trading rekeying locks for having to rush out a couple times a year to help a locked out tenant.
Rather than spending so much on rekeying locks either learn to do it or just have one set of extra locks. When tenant “A” moves out put on the extra set of locks. When tenant “B” moves out you can replace his locks with the spare set which were removed from tenant “A”'s property. When tenant “C” moves out you replace his locks with the spare set from tenant “B”'s property. That way it is just a few minutes replacing the locks instead of rekeying. Depending on the number of rentals and tenant turnover, it could be many years before the same locks are on a property as before.
Re: Keyless Electronic Door Lock - Posted by Rich-CA
Posted by Rich-CA on January 10, 2008 at 09:50:17:
These run on batteries. Not sure how you get in when the batteries die or if it unlocks. I dislike battery operated devices like these just because the life of the batter is so variable.
Do you self manage? I taught myself how to re key locks when I was self managing rentals and there are kits for this at Home Depot. You can buy a similar lock to get new keys, then key your locks to match.
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