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Is your building secure?

Is your building secure?

While most apartment buildings and condominiums are safe places, it is always wise to review some safety measures.

With respect to rental properties, security officials are the owner and property manager. In the case of condominiums, each owner shall ensure the security of its own housing while the condominium association is responsible for common areas such as entrances, corridors, stairwells or other.

Make sure the lock on the door, which allows residents to let guests enter the building through a remote control is functional. Notify your tenants they remind visitors to lock the door so that intruders can take advantage of the opening to enter the building.

Replace as soon as possible the light bulbs in common areas such as corridors, stairways, garbage dumps or laundry room.

Many falls occur because of wet floors or carpets that slide on the ground.
To protect your floors you can install carpet to wipe the shoes but make sure that the carpet is glued down by sub-layers slip or double sided tape.

In each of your stairs, check the status of the handrail and repair if necessary. If there is no ramp, install a.

During your inspection, check the condition of floors: carpets are fixed, the cement is cracked, the stairs slide, ...

Snow, ice and debris in doorways and on sidewalks are also potential sources of danger to your tenants.

The parking lots should be well lit and installing surveillance cameras and alarm stations, if flights are often committed, could make the area safer.

From one of your tenants inform you of a dangerous situation, take corrective action when the call.
An unresolved problem can get worse and affect the safety of your tenants but also in your building.

The quiet enjoyment is a right and everyone should respect it or enforce it in cases of conflict.

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