Lost house key

[Estef]

Has anyone ever lost the house key? What have you done about it and what was the owner’s reaction?

[Samox24]

Hi @Estef and a warm welcome to the Community Forum

I have attached another thread which also relates to your question

Have you ever locked yourself out?

If so, I am curious as to how it was dealt with on your end and the owners’.

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[Globetrotter]

I haven’t lost the key, but accidently walked off with the key! Luckily it was a local house sit and was able to return it quite quickly to the owner.

[Lokstar]

@Globetrotter we did similar- drove off with the fob for the electric gate!! By the time we realised we were too far away on another sit so we just posted it back!

[MissChef]

Never lost one as I put it directly on my key ring that I use for my car, so it’s never not with me. (I also use a tile tracker, because I misplace my own keys constantly )

On the other hand, sometimes I have to practically beg the homeowner for a physical key!

I do not trust those smart locks, and if the power goes out, you can’t get back in the garage.

Hiding a house key for emergencies is fine, but i insist on “cold hard steel in my grubby little mitt”.

[tlubkin]

Keys are such a pain.

• I once put the key in the wrong mailbox at an apartment building when I left the sit. Luckily I could visualize where I put it and they asked their neighbor to get it
• recently the key suddenly didn’t work. Apparently it was a new copy and they are sometimes imperfect. I had to ask a neighbor to climb down from his balcony- luckily I left the garden door unlocked. Inside their was a original copy and I never used the new one again.
• I love the keyless entry but once after I left the sit for family to take over, the battery died and no one had a key! The Family member eventually broke a window to get in.
  We shoud teach the pets to open the door!

[richten1]

I’ve not lost a key but on a recent sitter during handover the HO was telling me not to forget the flat key like a previous sitter. The sitter went out and forgot to take a key. The front door had one of those locks that mean when you pull it closed it’s locked. So ended up without a key outside the flat. No one near by with a spare key so the HO called the neighbouring flat to ask if this sitter could enter via their flat. He did and had to scale a small flat roof dividing the flat balconies. Once on the flats balcony he could enter via the never locked balcony door (it was a 8th floor penthouse)

[Karen_E]

Yikes @richten1! I’m sure that sitter never left a home without the key again!