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> In total I end up taking a week of my year off to accommodate such silly checks, which remarkably can never be done in one day and always spread out over a co

> In total I end up taking a week of my year off to accommodate such silly checks, which remarkably can never be done in one day and always spread out over a couple of month on several says. Did you really need to take those days off? When my apartment management company needs access to my apartment for routine checks and maintenance, they just let me know ahead of time and then let themselves in (they have a key, of course). They come during the work day, when I'm not home. Well, that was true up until COVID anyway; I was actually home for the most recent plumbing adventure they were debugging in the bathroom.

TeMPOraL 5y ago
That depends on the country and specifics of housing associations. In my case, I've never lived in an apartment to which a third party had keys[0]. Even when renting, it was always the case that I could change the locks, and the owner / housing association would have to announce their intent to visit beforehand. Them just letting themselves in was unthinkable. Last time the housing association wanted to do something in my basement, they had to ask kindly to be let in[1]. I'm not sure, but this may even be prohibited by regulations at the national level. -- [0] - Discounting hotels, hostels, and that one time I interned abroad for a couple months. [1] - And then the people doing the work - exchanging heat pipes that happen to run by our basement cell - managed to cause theft of some of our items stored there (they probably left the items in question outside, and someone else took them), and then they've lost the keys.