Thread: Cedar Falls requires citizens in apartment copmlexes to give up keys to their homes.

Dont most appartment complexes have copies to all of the residents appartents? In two different appartments I lived in; once my roommate locked me out and the apartment manager let me in (after charging me twenty bucks) and another time I had a mannequin in my apartment left (that was apparently back lit by the nightlight in the window) for vacation and the apartment manager called the cops on my mannequin (and let them in)

bus... I'm going to need you to calm down a bit. At the rate you're going, you're flooding the forum with approximately .96 posts per month, and frankly, that seems a bit excessive.

Originally Posted by Caine

Sometimes alarms go off falsely... actually, alot of times alarms go off falsely.... actually, Ive never answered a residential alarm that went off that was an actual break in, and I see fire departments checking fire alarms that are false on a regular basis. No, we don't need to force entry into a building every time there is an alarm somewhere, thats alot of broken doors for no reason.

We already have a key box system in place in my city, and I have never once in 5 years had a situation where someone got into those keys who was not authorized to do so.

No apparent benefit? How about not having to replace multiple doors per year for no reason other than a false fire alarm???

If a person or business has a [fire] alarm that should be the cost of having that service. If the service is faulty, the customer can change the service or discontinue the service. Recently an alarm service said it was going to charge residents for false alarm calls...I would have told that service to disconnect me and go crap themselves...the say I would have told any idiot city official that would have proposed such non-sense.

Originally Posted by OldDominionWhig

I love the justification by officials. Here is a local article on the issue.
UPDATE: Cedar Falls City Council OKs controversial lock box ordinance

Its crap like this why local politics is just as important as state and national politics.

The idea that anyone is advocating this abhorrent. If there is an emergency then the firefighters and who ever can kick the door down. If the building is on fire then I am pretty sure the last thing anyone is going to be worried about is the door being kicked in. Because if the place is burned down or on fire, does it really matter if the door is kicked in? Is a door one of those that victims of home or business fires try to salvage? Oh no my place is burned down but at least I got this door,thank god no one kicked down the door.

Originally Posted by bus

Dont most appartment complexes have copies to all of the residents appartents? In two different appartments I lived in; once my roommate locked me out and the apartment manager let me in (after charging me twenty bucks) and another time I had a mannequin in my apartment left (that was apparently back lit by the nightlight in the window) for vacation and the apartment manager called the cops on my mannequin (and let them in)

Apartment complexes are privately owned

Originally Posted by jamesrage

Apartment complexes are privately owned

In those that are privately owned rental complexes, the owner of the building generally will keep a set of keys for each unit. In the case of eviction, etc. In a condo apartment complex where individual units are owned separately, the owner of the individual unit, if they rent it out or live in it will have a key.

I could see the fire dept having access to the main door to the complex, but not to each and every unit