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Insurance companies will be about $35,000 out of pocket after a holiday home cleanout spree by two women. Terangimarie O-Te-Arohuni Jury, 36, and Samadhi Kalita Lucas, 31, had admitted a raft dishonesty charges relating to the stripping household gear from Christchurch rental properties. Two years and six months for one and two years and three months jail for the other.
A couple new lines for everyone's insurance policy: key and/or combination locks must be changed between every tenancy/short term rental. And outdoor unsecured items will no longer covered for theft at such properties.
A couple new lines for everyone's insurance policy: key and/or combination locks must be changed between every tenancy/short term rental. And outdoor unsecured items will no longer covered for theft at such properties.
As someone who runs an Airbnb, changing the combination after each guest sounds like a nightmare.
I try to minimise the chances of this happening by not giving out the info until the day before their booking is due to commence, but I don't fool myself that they couldn't come back afterwards.
Some hosts have theirs automated so that the key location and combination is sent out the day the booking is made. No thanks! All they need to do once they have it is cancel the booking.
Check out the Yale Assure SL range, for insurance purposes I'd certainly get a locksmith to install and you do need to have a degree of technical nous to setup :-)
I've stayed in plenty of motels with an old fashioned metal key so I'm not sure why this is suddenly a big thing.
The big thing is that most motels don't hide the key under the rock next to the flower pot, remain unoccupied for days at a time and therefore much less likely to be a target for a returning lightfingered guest.
Online locks, like most Internet of Things devices (online fridges, toasters, locks, lights, baby monitors) are all potentially hackable, and security will vary from company to company, depending on their technical nous and how much they care.
True but the average Joe who books temporary accommodation is just as likely to be a master hacker as they are a master lockpick. Any adaptable security system is better than a fixed one for this application.
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