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Post by Marilyn on Feb 27, 2019 12:43:36 GMT -5
Now that I live in an apartment, I don't even let my apt's superintendent have a key to my front door ! .... learned that in my county at least, you only have to permit entrance by management when an appointment is made ahead of time... but, if an emergency occurs and they have to break down your door, you have to pay for the repairs !! -- that's okay with me. As a child, my parents were always good at knocking if my door was closed, but could never trust my sisters !! A particular problem was when I was doing any creative writing -- couldn't stand having someone just barge in.... I've never heard of a landlord/mgr not having a pass key to any apt. That is very unusual. Any time cops needed to get into an apt for whatever reason, they called the landlord/mgr and he had a pass key to enter any and all apts. (Quite often maintenance has a pass key too.) Maybe you thought he didn't have a key, but they own the place, so they did....unless it's some kind of city ordinance.
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Post by JeriJet on Feb 28, 2019 9:45:41 GMT -5
Now that I live in an apartment, I don't even let my apt's superintendent have a key to my front door ! .... learned that in my county at least, you only have to permit entrance by management when an appointment is made ahead of time... but, if an emergency occurs and they have to break down your door, you have to pay for the repairs !! -- that's okay with me. As a child, my parents were always good at knocking if my door was closed, but could never trust my sisters !! A particular problem was when I was doing any creative writing -- couldn't stand having someone just barge in.... I've never heard of a landlord/mgr not having a pass key to any apt. That is very unusual. Any time cops needed to get into an apt for whatever reason, they called the landlord/mgr and he had a pass key to enter any and all apts. (Quite often maintenance has a pass key too.) Maybe you thought he didn't have a key, but they own the place, so they did....unless it's some kind of city ordinance. Well, I can't help that you've never heard of my situation -- but I've spelled it out above... I suppose it may simply be the limited requirements by my landlord.... and, no, they do not have a key. In some cases, individual renters/owners WANT the superintendent to have a key and have provided one, but I have not.
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Post by patriciaanne on Mar 1, 2019 16:10:51 GMT -5
Now that I live in an apartment, I don't even let my apt's superintendent have a key to my front door ! .... learned that in my county at least, you only have to permit entrance by management when an appointment is made ahead of time... but, if an emergency occurs and they have to break down your door, you have to pay for the repairs !! -- that's okay with me. As a child, my parents were always good at knocking if my door was closed, but could never trust my sisters !! A particular problem was when I was doing any creative writing -- couldn't stand having someone just barge in.... I've never heard of a landlord/mgr not having a pass key to any apt. That is very unusual. Any time cops needed to get into an apt for whatever reason, they called the landlord/mgr and he had a pass key to enter any and all apts. (Quite often maintenance has a pass key too.) Maybe you thought he didn't have a key, but they own the place, so they did....unless it's some kind of city ordinance. I grew up in an apartment and I also rented one for a time. In both cases, no one had a key. The apt. I grew up in was a co-op, so it was the management office, but the apt. I rented had a landlord. I understood that in the event of an emergency, they would knock the door down and I would pay for the damages. But no one was getting my key. Also, in both cases we had a locksmith change the locks on the doors so there was no such thing as a "pass key" that would operate all doors. Individual tenants put on their own locks.
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Post by JeriJet on Mar 1, 2019 20:08:59 GMT -5
I've never heard of a landlord/mgr not having a pass key to any apt. That is very unusual. Any time cops needed to get into an apt for whatever reason, they called the landlord/mgr and he had a pass key to enter any and all apts. (Quite often maintenance has a pass key too.) Maybe you thought he didn't have a key, but they own the place, so they did....unless it's some kind of city ordinance. I grew up in an apartment and I also rented one for a time. In both cases, no one had a key. The apt. I grew up in was a co-op, so it was the management office, but the apt. I rented had a landlord. I understood that in the event of an emergency, they would knock the door down and I would pay for the damages. But no one was getting my key. Also, in both cases we had a locksmith change the locks on the doors so there was no such thing as a "pass key" that would operate all doors. Individual tenants put on their own locks. I'm very glad you could verify my experience -- so, thanks !!
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Post by JeriJet on Mar 4, 2019 18:42:01 GMT -5
Joe-Zeb: Wonderful stories !! (I obviously had no idea). So, I guess it surprises me even more that the overlooked details bother you so much... I love theatre-in-the-round... except that once I had a first-row aisle seat at an off-Bway "The Fantasticks" and got hit in the head!! BTW, Will Geer was in that production! I guess part of it's in my blood, mom was for many years in a concert party, which toured the the pubs and clubs around the area. Sometimes they would do an occasional charity show, which meant I would get to see the show.. I remember one show they did where I actually went and sat on the stage. Mom saw me and quickly escorted me back to my seat. I used to have a glove puppet called Sooty. One day a boy in class brought his ventriloquist's dummy which I coveted and never got one myself. Anyway, I used Sooty instead. Over in the piano stool was a book with some music and a ventriloquist sketch in it. The dummy was a school boy and the ventriloquist the teacher. I can only remember the following. Teacher: How dare you tell your mother I'm an idiot, I may be stupid, but I'm not an idiot. You'd have loved mom, when she was 14 she and aunt Doris left home to find work in a town in the county of Yorkshire. There they stayed at the home of Mr and Mrs Turnbull and their son George Jr.. It was while Mom was down there aunt Doris introduced her to the man who would become my father. Mrs Turnbull soon became aunt Mary and Mr Turnbull she called uncle George. Now here's the Walton connection, mom would tell me some wonderful stories of her life in Yorkshire, she even said she'd write about her life down there, but she never got around to it. I guess she was very much like John-Boy. Although they didn't live on a farm aunt Mary kept goats on an allotment. Whenever I saw one on TV, I would ask mom if she could tell me its breed. She could have easily told me what breed Myrtle is. The one thing they were never short of was milk. The last time I saw aunt Mary was when dad and I went down for his father's funeral when I was 10. She made me some real lemonade. Mom thought a lot about aunt Mary and often talked about her. She would have gotten on well with Maud Gormly. I never knew goats had slanted eyes. You're right, Joe-Zeb, I definitely would have loved your Mom !!
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