How to increase security at your Rental Property

How to increase security at your Rental Property

No one wants to feel unsafe in their own home. Renters rely on their landlords to keep the property as safe as possible. As a landlord, you want your tenants to know that security is a top priority for you. Here are nine ways to make your rental property more secure.

Secure Doors

You want to make sure all entry and exit doors from the property and from the tenants’ apartments are properly secured.

• Door Construction: All entry and exit doors at your rental property should be made of a solid, heavy-duty material, such as steel or wood. You should try not to use doors with any type of glass which can be easily broken by criminals looking to gain access to the property

• Chain Locks: In addition to the deadbolt locks, the doors that lead to the tenants’ apartments should have chain locks on them. This will allow the tenant to crack open the door and still have extra protection with the chain.

Proper Lighting

Lighting can be one of the easiest ways to prevent crime. You need to have the proper lighting installed inside of and outside of your property.

• Indoor Lights: You want to make sure all hallways and stairwells are brightly lit. These lights should always be on. Replace burnt out bulbs immediately.

• Outdoor Lights: This includes lighting in both the front and back of your property. It is up to you whether you want the lights to remain on or if you want them to be motion activated. You can do a mix of both. For example, the lights on the front porch can always be on, but the light that illuminates the driveway can be motion activated.

Secure Windows

Doors are not the only way criminals can enter a property. You must make sure all windows to the property are secure as well.

• Locks- All windows should have working locks. Even if the unit is on the third floor, it is important for locks to work so that no one can enter through the fire escape.

• Security Bars- You could consider adding security bars to windows on the first floor. This will obviously affect the aesthetic appeal of your property, so it is up to you if you think your tenants and prospective tenants would view this negatively or positively.

Alarm System

You can have a security alarm system, such as ADT, wired into all the apartments. The tenant can decide if he or she wants to actually pay the monthly fee and subscribe to the monitoring service.

Security Guard

This option only makes sense if you have a larger complex of properties, for example, 25 units or more. It would be pretty silly to hire a security guard to monitor a two unit property. Seeing the presence of a security guard could help deter criminal activities and increase the safety at your property.

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