The Security Audit: 6 Questions Every Multifamily Property Should Ask
Security audits aren’t just routine check-ups — they’re essential to protecting residents, improving operational efficiency, and ensuring your multifamily property meets today’s evolving standards. An effective audit does more than identify vulnerabilities; it highlights opportunities to modernize access control and streamline management.
Here are six critical questions to guide your next multifamily security audit, along with actionable tips to enhance your property’s safety and efficiency.
1. Are You Using Updated Access Control Technology?
Smart locks and digital access systems have evolved dramatically in recent years. Modern multifamily properties benefit from versatile, hardware-agnostic systems like RemoteLock, compatible with Wi-Fi, wired, and offline smart locks. Ensure your property uses technology that integrates seamlessly with existing property management software, providing a unified platform to manage resident, vendor, and staff access efficiently.
2. Can You Monitor and Manage Access Remotely?
Today’s property managers need remote capabilities — not just convenience, but as a critical operational advantage. RemoteLock provides cloud-based access management, allowing managers to issue, revoke, and track entry codes instantly, from any device.
Remote monitoring reduces on-site demands and enhances response times during emergencies or resident lockouts. The ability to not only identify problems but solve them, without making a long trip to the property itself, gives you additional agility and versatility when solving security issues.
3. Do You Have Complete Visibility into Your Access Logs?
Visibility is vital for security and operational efficiency. Your audit should confirm you have comprehensive, real-time access logs. These logs identify critical operational concerns, such as:
- Delays in turnovers: Consistently late arrivals by housekeepers can disrupt schedules. Access logs enable managers to identify and resolve these issues directly.
- Missed vendor visits: Confirm whether essential services, such as pest control or maintenance, were completed or missed.
- Unauthorized entries: Quickly detect and investigate access attempts outside scheduled times.
- Overlapping schedules: Prevent future conflicts by identifying and addressing double bookings of vendors or service providers.
RemoteLock’s centralized dashboard offers detailed access insights, simplifying audit reviews and daily management.
4. Is Your Property Protected by Customized Access Schedules?
Customized access schedules enhance both security and convenience by allowing you to set specific entry times tailored to the unique needs of residents, staff, and vendors. This level of detailed control ensures that shared spaces, such as fitness centers, pools, and laundry facilities, remain secure and accessible only during appropriate times.
Using RemoteLock’s advanced software, multifamily property managers can easily create and modify these access schedules. This flexibility not only boosts resident satisfaction through convenient access to amenities but also significantly improves the overall safety and efficiency of your property’s operations.
5. Have You Eliminated Physical Keys Completely?
Physical keys pose numerous risks including loss, duplication, and significant inconvenience, especially during resident transitions and emergencies. These traditional keys require manual handling, contributing to operational inefficiencies and security vulnerabilities.
Transitioning to digital credentials like mobile access, PIN codes, or proximity cards significantly enhances both security and convenience. Even if only a few doors — such as closets, maintenance areas, or storage rooms — still rely on physical keys, you’re limiting your ability to fully manage and monitor your property. RemoteLock seamlessly integrates a variety of digital credentialing solutions, ensuring secure, keyless entry, reducing administrative burdens during resident turnovers, and streamlining property management operations.
6. Is Your Access Control System Scalable?
A growing multifamily property requires scalable security solutions that can keep pace with expanding operations and evolving requirements. Your access control system should easily accommodate the addition of new doors, buildings, and even multiple property locations without complications or costly overhauls.
RemoteLock’s scalable access management is designed specifically to support properties of varying sizes — from a few dozen doors to hundreds — with the flexibility you need for growth. Its hardware-agnostic integration capability ensures that future expansions, hardware updates, or technology changes can be implemented seamlessly, protecting your investment and preventing operational disruptions.
Modernize Your Multifamily Security Today
Regular security audits ensure your multifamily property remains safe, efficient, and competitive. By addressing these six essential questions, you can identify gaps in your current setup and strategically enhance your property management practices.
Discover how RemoteLock’s access control solutions can modernize your multifamily operations.
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RemoteLock has been automating access control and improving on-site property operations efficiencies across multiple industries, including vacation rental and multifamily, for more than ten years. As a leading access-centered property operations software platform provider with more than 10,000 customers in 75+ countries, RemoteLock helps property managers enable, control, and automate access and climate control across their portfolio. RemoteLock’s platform saves property managers time and money through the elimination of tasks for onsite staff and helps scale businesses with greater confidence. It is differentiated by its dozens of integrations with applicable hardware and business software systems for an easy-to-use, turn-key solution.
