Subject: Re: War path against 1P
From: Loretta Wheeler (lw@condomanagement.com)
Date: Fri Oct 28 2005 - 18:32:12 CDT
I guess I could set back and let the comments continue about my inability to
manage properties.
When I first came to work for 1st properties, I guess your building already
had 3 or 4 break-ins. There was a lot of correspondence on that via E-mail
between the Board Members. I made a few recommendations to the Board about
security. The communication that I received was that the person had used
keys to enter the property and he/she broke into several units. The Board
members wanted the keys changed. I put the keys under the unit doors. I
found when I did that there were quite a few doors that they would not slide
completely underneath. This bothered me from a stand point of security. I
had already ordered the guard latches for the front doors before I changed
the keys. Since I did not want the doors look hap hazard, I had them made
to match the doors which took longer to make up.Before the guard latches
were put up, another unit was broken into and this time, they took the keys
to the building and several other keys that the Resident had.. My letter
explained why the keys were being changed again. Yes, I rushed to get this
done and perhaps the mail service was not as fast as I anticpated but my
first thought was for the security of the building. I would rather be
criticzed about not doing things the correct way. (As some put it giving at
least two weeks that the keys were being changed again), than to have
another unit broken into and that Resident losing his/her property or their
life.
Loretta
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Thomas" <jthomas@sun.soci.niu.edu>
To: <vanguard-talk@venus.soci.niu.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 1:08 AM
Subject: Re: War path against 1P
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> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 thelen8830@aol.com wrote:
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>> I am in unit 410 and I also have been attempting to reach Lorreta who
>> does not return calls. I was also locked out. My new keys were mailed
>> out on the 21 0ct 2005 which was three days before they were changed.
>> No notice at all. I also had a problem with my last set of keys. I had
>> heard that the locks were going to be changed and saw lorreta in the
>> building. When I approached her and asked her where my keys where she
>> aid that she had given them to my tenants. I DONT HAVE ANY TENANTS. I
>> think it is time for a change and i am not talking about "LOCKS".
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> Then it's worse than I thought.
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> This is compounded by a data point I haven't mentioned. In private email
> to Loretta, when the locks were first changed, I suggested that it would
> maybe wise if we were given a few extra days notice when locks would be
> changed so that, if we were out of town, we could make arrangements to
> get the new key, or if we came back to town late (as we did tonight), we
> wouldn't be standing in the cold trying to figure out what happened. Her
> response basically pooh-poohed this, suggesting that sometimes,
> inconveniences for some are inevitable.
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> So how does she respond next?
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> We WERE NOT notified of a second change in locks by postal mail, email,
> phone! It's incomprehensible that, if locks were to be changed on Oct 24,
> keys would be sent out on Oct 21. If true, and after the back-forth we've
> had in the past 2 weeks about the need for communication, this is so
> stunningly incompetent that whoever is responsible for this should be
> terminated. What is going through the heads of these folks to think that
> mailing keys to people on oct 21 is sufficient time??
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> Michael, Loretta, don't you think that maybe, just maybe, you folk have
> a bit more than just a "communication issue" that you might begin
> addressing?
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> Jim Thomas / Department of Sociology / Northern Illinois University
> jthomas@sun.soci.niu.edu / http://www.soci.niu.edu/~jthomas
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