lock boxes follow up

[Diane Menke]

You all use lock boxes on your rental properties right?

Jason just posted on his blog about using them to sell houses far away. But we keep lockboxes on all construction projects and on all our rental houses.

If a dishwasher in our rental house springs a gusher like ours just did this past week, I can send the plumber there and I don't have to meet him. He can let himself in and out and we don't hold each other up. He sends me a bill.

All my subs and suppliers are always relieved when they learn a place is on lockbox. They are in and out pronto, and I don't have to babysit them. I can send my realtors out. Everyone likes it.

No we NEVER give the code to tenants or customers. That box is ours.

I usually mount the boxes on the door jamb by the front door. The knob mounted ones are not as good.

Diane