Tenants Robbing Packages and Stealing Free Wahser & Dryer Use

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It us hard to believe that we own all C+ Grade apartment buildings and also have many tenants who steal other tenants mail, packages, rob cars, put slugs in washers and dryers, stole the entire set of 28 mail wall-mounted mail boxes and a few days ago we found a piece of a coat hanger in a clothes dryer that was being used to get the dryers to work for free.

So, I went on Amazon, purchased a surveillance camera that is also a USB charger that plugs into a wall and I installed a wall plug receptacle on the side of a light fixture on the ceiling so it was not noticeable. I could have mounted a smoke detector with a camera, but I already had order the USB charger for by employee theft surveillance. I was surprised to find the picture quality for the USB charger was super clear, in color and you can set it to motion detection.

I am going to put some decoys in the mail area and will definitely catch the thieves and the tenants jamming my washers and dryers with slugs and coat hangers and will immediately evict them. Almost every tenant I have doesn't seem like the type who would steal, but I have problems at every property with people jamming my washers and dryers with fake coins. I am always finding plastic coins in our laundry coin boxes and they work very well for the tenants. I looked into the coinless systems, but that seems like a cumbersome and expensive way to manage the washers and dryers. I don't want to have to deal with the extra equipment, monthly fees and I think every property would need an internet connection and that is more maintenance and expenses.