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In article <49jghi$nu2@morgoth.sfu.ca>, athomas@sfu.ca says:
>
>I am living in an apartment and recently our manager was found 
>to be breaking into appartments and stealing stuff. He has 
>since been fired and is under investigation by the Burnaby 
>R.C.M.P.  Now the company that he worked for (the co. that owns 
>the building) has made efforts to try and secure the building 
>against him, apparently he is still trying to get into the 
>building.
>
>This is where my problem starts.  The company decided to change 
>all of the exterior locks. Which is fine, but they only gave 
>one day notice of the lock change.  It was scheduled to be done 
>on a week day when most people are at work or school.  I was 
>away from the building early that morning and didn't get home 
>until late, needless to say I was locked out!  The maintenance 
>guy was out from his apartment and I had no way of getting into 
>the building. I ended up waiting for one hour until someone 
>else came to get into the building.
>
>Next, yesterday (tuesday nov 28) they decided to change all of 
>the locks on the suites themselves.  Now they did give us 
>notice of this on saturday, but the memo said "give us your key 
>and we will change the locks and you can pick up your new keys.
>
>I DIDN'T give them my keys and they went and changed my locks 
>anyways.  Again I was locked out of my apartment and all this 
>for $700 a month!
>
>My question is this, 
>Do I have any kind of recourse with this kind of malarky?
>They have seriously inconvenienced me on two occassions and I 
>can do nothing about it.... or can I?  Or maybe I am just a 
>little too pissed off right now and I will feel better about it 
>later?
>
>If you have any info that would help it would be appreciated, 
>comments either way are also welcome.
>
>Cheers!
>
>Aaron
>
I think it's great that they're being responsible and changing the locks
very quickly to protect everyone's posessions from the ex-manager.  Sure,
it's a pain in the butt, but I'm sure it's worth the risk of taking one's time
and having the ex-manager causing damage.