Doors Left Unlocked

[Danny Moore]

List, Les & Zen,

I think that depends on the attitude of the neighborhood.  I frequently
have customers leave either the back door unlocked or leave the key under
the mat.  They also leave my check on the music desk.  This also relates to
the thread of getting stiffed/no-show for tunings.  I don't bill
individuals.  (Commercial accounts, yes.)  Money when it's tuned or it
doesn't get tuned.  (Keeps me from having to "hunt" down my money.)  Of
course I'm about 90 miles east of Houston in a bleak little coastal town.
If I lived in Bartlett's neighborhood, I wouldn't leave the doors unlocked
either.

Danny Moore (TX)

Leslie W Bartlett wrote:

> If it's someone you know well, I would think leaving a door opened
> wouldn't be too bad. But how many of one's customers is known "that
> well".  "Better a live chicken than a dead duck" is my philosophy.
>
> Leslie
> lesbart@juno.com
> "I'm not half the man I used to be, and never was."
>
> On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 10:52:47 -0500 "Zen Reinhardt"
> <diskladame@provide.net> writes:
> >Hello List!
> >
> >We've probably discussed this before, but my curiosity is getting the
> >better of me again.
> >
> >How do you handle the customer who tells you they'll be happy to leave
> >the
> >door unlocked so that you may come in, do the work, leave the bill,
> >and
> >leave the house?  I realize that this is a common practice, so I was
> >wondering if any of you have had, shall we say, "unexpected
> >repercussions"
> >from such an arrangement?
> >
> >I for one will never enter a house unaccompanied.  I don't care if the
> >door
> >was left wide open.  Having a teenager, neighbor or house
> >sitter/cleaner
> >waiting to let me in is "legitimate."  Am I being overly cautious?
> >
> >Just curious again ...
> >ZR!  RPT
> >Ann Arbor  MI
> >diskladame@provide.net
> >