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WHAT OUTDATED BUILDING ACCESS IS REALLY COSTING PROPERTY OWNERS AND HOW TO REDUCE IT YOUR FRONT DOOR HAS AN OPERATING COST YOU’RE PROBABLY IGNORING Picture a property owner reviewing their monthly operating statement. Trash pickup, turnover repairs, and utility costs are all visible itemized expenses. Access control rarely gets the same scrutiny. As long as the buzzer rings and the door unlocks, it quietly gets filed away as solved. Instead of being questioned, service calls, rekeying, replacement credentials, staff hours, and telecom charges tied to legacy hardware keep accumulating in the background.
capital expense (CapEx): choose a system, install it, move on. But the better question is: what does it cost to operate year after year, and what does it actually deliver in return? But there's a bigger issue hiding underneath that accounting exercise. Many owners keep legacy building access control in place simply because it still works. They don’t realize that newer systems can deliver far more capability, often at a comparable or lower ongoing cost.
Multifamily access control is usually treated as a
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