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Unless it's a short term rental place where that makes more sense and your paying for the internet bill, don't put smart locks. It feels like mandatory surveil
by novok 5y ago
Unless it's a short term rental place where that makes more sense and your paying for the internet bill, don't put smart locks. It feels like mandatory surveillance cameras that you have no control over and your creepy landlord can look at any time. It doesn't matter if I can look too. Tenant changes should ideally be once every few years, so to optimize for a once every few year event feels like false economy.
People want the landlord to implicitly need the tenant to do things in order to enter their private house, or to otherwise to leave physical evidence via a break & entering if they did so. A smart lock can very easily remove all evidence that the landlord entered your house without you knowing, and that feels violating.
Basically anything that could be used by some creepy panty sniffing pervert to help them be a more effective creepy pervert, don't put that on your units. Smart locks help this hypothetical person.