Managing Access to Holiday Cottages

April 13, 2012 - PRLog -- Managing holiday lets can be challenging, especially when it comes to getting keys to holiday rental guests, cleaners or maintenance staff. If you are not on-site to meet your guests on arrival, then you need to have a foolproof way of ensuring guests receive keys to your holiday home.
More and more holiday cottage owners are now relying on the use of key safes as an alternative to leaving keys with their holiday letting agents! Key safes can also be useful when guests arrive late in the evening or early.
Posting the key, leaving them under a mat, hidden under rocks or in plant pots could dramatically increase the vulnerability of their properties to burglary and theft if keys get into the wrong hands.
Holiday home insurance companies will only cover theft claims if there are signs of forcible and violent entry. When a burglar uses a key hidden outside the holiday home, it would be considered an unforced entry, and then the insurer is likely to decline the claim.
By taking a few sensible precautions, the use of a key safe can be one of the safest and easiest ways of managing access to your holiday cottage. Locate your key safe out of sight and make sure that yours it is bolted firmly into brick or stone, avoiding soft mortar.

Ensure that you don’t leave the keys in the key safe for extended periods and your guests do not leave keys in the key safe during their stay. Moreover, choose a combination that will be secure, preferably with a 5 - 7 digit cod.

Investing in reliable key safes is probably the best thing you could ever do


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