Well, it's not at all a bad idea for somebody to have keys to all your locks, in case of an emergency. But there's a difference between having and using. In my building, there are 150 apartments, and maintenance and management have master keys that open both the front and rear entrances and residents' actual apartments. Because the apartment doors are steel, it would be very difficult for a resident to install an additional lock (and we're forbidden in our leases from doing so anyway). We're even discouraged from having door-chains or push-bars inside the apartment, though a previous tenant had installed one in my apartment and management didn't remove it before I moved in. Things being as they are, though, I'm a lot less comfortable with how many people have access to those master keys than I used to be.
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Date: 2004-12-05 05:35 am (UTC)