Emergency Access to Rental Properties

[Jacob A.]

Curious how other landlords try to set up a way for emergency access to your properties. I am thinking of situations where there is a bad tenant who changes locks without letting you know, changes garage door PINs, resets garage door openers, or adds deadbolt that is accessible from only inside the house.

Also for situations when temperatures drop too low and you need to access the house to open a faucet and the tenant is not at home.

I have added kwikset locks with the rekey feature and also with a second deadbolt that has another separate key. But I won't be able to unlock if the tenant locks the knob. Is it legal to put a knob that does not have a lock feature? I was looking into some ways to open the garage door easily. Thought of syncing my garage door opener with the tenant's door unit, but looks like there is a limit on how many doors I can code my opener to and a limit to how many remotes one door can have. Also noticed that the wireless keypads outside the door do not have the option for two PINS. If they could I could let the tenant choose one PIN and I could choose another.