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Landlord’s Guide To Simple Yet Effective Tenant Security

Posted On Tuesday, 20 December 2022 21:05
Landlord’s Guide To Simple Yet Effective Tenant Security

According to the FBI’s statistics, a burglary occurs every 27 seconds in the US. If you’re a landlord, you need to understand that security adds value to your properties and makes them more attractive to tenants.

Are you looking to provide simple yet effective security for your tenants?

Keep reading as we explore the most fundamental security tools for your property security strategy. Don’t miss out on this guide to tenant security for landlords.

Leverage Video Camera Security

If you’re a landlord, you don’t just have a responsibility to keep your tenants comfortable and happy while they’re in their homes. They must feel their packages, vehicles, bikes, and other belongings will be safe while stored in shared spaces.

To do this, you can leverage video camera security. If you opt for cloud-based parking lot cameras, you can use cloud-based video management resources and store your security data in an accessible cloud-based location.

Cloud-based video security allows you to check surveillance cameras from anywhere using a mobile device or cloud-based control center. You can use camera footage to help your tenants with an insurance claim, and you can use it to present evidence to the police and help them to apprehend the perpetrator. 

You can expand your surveillance system to perform more functions by implementing video analytics. Video analytics integrate with cloud-based camera systems to provide screening. You and your security staff cannot monitor the camera feed all the time, so you’ll likely miss a potential security threat, which may lead to theft or another type of incident. 

If you implement video analytics, you will receive alerts based on any abnormal activity on your surveillance cameras, allowing your security team to step in and potentially prevent an incident from evolving. 

This means you can adapt your security cameras to be instrumental in avoiding crimes on your property rather than simply recording them. Installing security cameras in shared spaces like parking areas, your property’s exterior, and shared tenant spaces will help your tenants feel safe and add value to your property investments.

Alarm Systems

You need effective strategies to prepare for the worst - natural disasters, fires, and break-ins. To ensure you have a strategy in place for these events, you should implement alarm systems that provide you with an alert for broken glass, carbon monoxide, and broken glass detected in your building. If you opt for a cloud-based alarm system, you will receive an alert on your mobile device to inform you about the incident immediately - making for a speedier response. An alarm system is necessary to meet basic building regulations and requirements.

Advanced Access Control

You can’t rely on simple locks and keys when it comes to security for your tenants. Lockpicking is straightforward, and simple locks can make your tenants vulnerable. 

Instead, you can opt for advanced access control using keycards, fobs, or mobile access credentials to secure your building. 

Cloud-based access control can implement one of the most modern access control technologies - mobile access control. With this kind of access control, your tenants can download access credentials to their mobile devices and use them to enter the building. This means you won’t need to replace keycards or fobs any longer, and tenants' onboarding and offboarding process will become simpler and quicker. 

Your tenants can enter the building touchless with mobile access credentials for pandemic-friendly building hygiene. They don’t need to press a button or touch any other surfaces that harbor germs - instead, they can simply wave their hands over the access reader, which will then begin communicating with their mobile devices to unlock the door. 

The reader uses Bluetooth, WiFi, and cellular communication to provide a more convenient entry. The best part? If you live in a high-crime area, your tenant can enter immediately without withdrawing their device, which could expose them to mugging. Here are some of the other benefits of cloud-based and mobile-first access control technology:

  • Remote door lock operation - if one of your tenants is locked out, you can open the door for them from anywhere using your mobile device or a cloud-based control center. They will not need to wait for you to arrive, and you won’t need to travel in the middle of the night to ensure your tenants get home safely.
  • Integration - with cloud-based access control, you can integrate software to automate visitor management and provide coronavirus screening for your tenants.

Securing Your Parking Spaces

In addition to adding surveillance, you must ensure that your parking spaces are only accessible to your tenants. When they are walking to their cars, they should feel safe. And your tenants shouldn’t worry about their cars being stolen while at home. 

So, you can use gated parking systems to prevent unauthorized vehicles from entering your parking spaces and using the facility. And you can install access control to prevent on-foot traffic from entering these spaces. A secure parking facility goes a long way towards making your property more attractive to tenants and adding value to your property.

Summary

As a landlord, you want your property to be valuable and your tenants to feel safe and secure in their homes. To ensure your property is secure, you can implement video security and access control technologies to secure your buildings and parking spaces. If you opt for cloud-based versions of these tools, you can create a more agile and usable security system to help prevent crimes on your property.

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