Property managers must regularly stay on top of the best home security practices for their tenants’ sake. Introducing new safety measures and convenient devices to make life as easy as possible for the tenants is essential; it also makes the property management job more manageable.
A key safe is one such device that adds security to a building and makes it easier to manage. However, now and then, the code will need to change; how is this done? Let’s look at a typical key safe and how to change its code.
How a Key Safe Code Works
A key safe is a valuable installation in a communal building because you have a spare set of keys to a tenant’s door or a communal area like garages or maintenance closets for you and the tenants to access conveniently.
Depending on the manufacturer, every key safe might be designed differently. Discovering how the key safe installed on the building you manage operates is vital, but there is likely an instruction manual given to you at the time of purchase.
Older versions of key safes have a keypad built into the key safe as the only way to enter it, but this is no longer the primary way of entering a key safe; these might require you to hold a specific key and type the code out to change it, but this isn’t always reliable. Modern key safes tend to have an app linked to them so you can access the code from your mobile device for heightened home security.
Rather than typing in the code on the key safe, it’s possible to open the app that the key safe is linked to and enter the unique code there. Generally, a physical keypad might be on the key safe as a backup measure, but you needn’t type it out on the key safe itself.
How to Change a Key Safe Code
Occasionally, key codes become known to people who are unauthorised to enter it, or have moved out of the premises. You would then need to have the code changed to maintain security. Periodically, you could ask the tenants on a digital noticeboard who needs assistance with their key management and get responses via the device.
As a property manager, it’s simple to change the key safe code for your tenants or building workers. Every tenant and property worker should be given a unique code so you are able to monitor who has accessed the key safe and when; this way, if a key goes missing from the key safe, you’re able to identify the last person who used it.
You should access the management portal downloaded at the time of installation, then choose the correct tenant to change the code for. All you need to do is delete the previous code and enter a new one, then tell the tenant their code. Make sure to change the key codes for tenants yourself and don’t instruct them how to do it so you have control over who has what code and won’t be left in the dark about who entered the key safe.