Re:Tenants win right to physical keys over smart locks from ...
by michaelt on Friday May 10, 2019 @07:03AM
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Maybe it's that I've never rented a nice enough place, but all my past landlords have chosen the £10-a-lock non-patent-protected locks over the £100-a-lock high security locks.
Re:Tenants win right to physical keys over smart locks from ...
by rhinoceraptor on Friday May 10, 2019 @09:13AM
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My landlord in the US uses cheap locks, he said he throws them away after each lease and puts in new ones. It was lucky for me one day when I forgot my keys, but had my lockpicking kit in my backpack. It took about 5 minutes to rake both the knob and deadbolt and get in.
Re:Tenants win right to physical keys over smart locks from ...
by fernandotakai on Friday May 10, 2019 @01:58PM
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where i live, it's customary to either re-key your door after you rent a new place or just exchange the whole lock.
as long as you give back two copies of the key by the end of the lease, landlords usually don't care.
Re:Tenants win right to physical keys over smart locks from ...
by Celarnor on Friday May 10, 2019 @02:50PM
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Those are very high end ones I'd expect to see on commercial installations or homes of the ultra rich. Most landlords in my part of the US use the cheap regular off-the-shelf locks, where you can copy the key for a couple of dollars at Home Depot and throw the lock out once the tenant departs.
Only the entity ordring the locks is authorized to have additional keys made. And it's pretty heavily enforced by the manufacturers and distibuters.
Copies are also more than 5 quid.
[1] https://www.dormakaba.com/hr-hr/proizvodi/proizvodi/mechanic...
[2] https://www.assaabloy.ch/en/local/switzerland/landingpage/as...
Edited to add : While the web pages talk pretty much about smart locks, both manufacturers offer purely mechanical locks (or hybrids), which cannot be copied easily.