So I was showing a house in Tempe and the lockbox code just... wouldn't work.

It was a Tuesday morning, and I had clients waiting. I typed in the 6-digit code three separate times, but the little key just wouldn't release. I ended up calling the listing agent, who gave me a different code that finally opened it after about 15 minutes of us all standing on the porch. Has anyone else had a lockbox totally fail on them right before a showing?

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jesse_nguyen14d ago

Oh man, my buddy had the worst one last winter. He was showing a condo downtown and the lockbox just froze solid, like literally iced over. He tried pouring his lukewarm coffee on it to thaw the key part. Ended up having to reschedule the whole thing because the seller was out of town and couldn't be reached. Clients were not happy at all.

joseph_roberts14d ago

Isn't it wild how so much modern life depends on tiny bits of tech just... working? @jesse_nguyen that frozen lockbox story is a perfect example. We build these whole systems around digital locks and keyless entry, but a little ice or a dead battery can wreck everything. It feels like we traded old problems for new, more annoying ones. The backup plan is always way more complicated than just using a regular key.

verap521d ago

My old apartment building in Chicago had keypad locks installed last year. The super said they cut lockouts by about 70 percent because people stopped forgetting their keys. Sure, the batteries die sometimes, but that's maybe once a year versus losing a physical key every few months. I'll take that trade any day.