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I'm going to get robbed
We have private lift lobbies in our building. There are no buttons on the elevators and you need a key card to make the lift stop at your floor. You are the only people who are supposed to be able to make the elevator doors open on your side of the floor.
Except the damn lift is broken. Does anyone want to guess what the problem is?
If you guessed that the lift was opening to our unit each and every time anyone goes up or down you'd be right. Out of 40+ floors, it's only doing this to our unit and apparently it's been going on since yesterday. I've complained. H has complained. Half of the residents I've talked to in the lifts have complained. Nothing has been done.
At this point I'm freaking out that the reason this hasn't been fixed is because one of the people controlling the lifts is keeping it messed up so that someone can come break in. A couple of other buildings in the neighborhood with the same card system as ours have had a few recent armed robberies.
I need someone to talk me down.
Re: I'm going to get robbed
Wait, does the elevator open in to your apartment? Or just to your floor?
We have the same type of key card system and I find it quite awesome. Keeps the riff raff off your floor.
Obviously it's not working as it was intended to in your case, though.
There is a door that I can lock between the unit and the lift, but there's only one lock attached to the door because no one else is supposed to be able to access the door. I'm thirty seconds from going down to the guard house and staying there until they get someone to fix the lift.
Yikes. It sounds like it's just paranoia. But I'd be doing the same thing.
Is there somewhere you can go today? Just to be out of the house and around other people?
Also, anyone you can contact above the guards, like the property manager or security company to get things moving faster?
Oh good. Don't feel bad. It's not your fault. Anyone else would have done the same if it was their unit.
I'm sorry and glad to hear the bad lift was shut.
WRT to robbery, living in W.Europe's gift to property crime (ie we juke the stats EU), my helpful hint from Heloise is to ship sentimental stuff home and the pricey stuff wear (at least here, invaders generally don't wake you/mess with you for jewelry on your person, but they happily steal stuff on the nightstand/dresser/etc.
Yeah, I occasionally sleep in a Cartier watch (sentimental gift, shouldn't have brought it, b/c we will, at some point, be robbed). When I'm not sleeping w/ it, I keep it in a (don't judge) tennis sock. Freaky as it sounds, that's my advise for any sentimental $ stuff you have. At least here, crooks aren't spoiling for a fight/drama. They want easy, quick, portable, and re-sell-able. Computers, i-stuff, and jewelry. The rest of it, not of interest.