Rental Apartment Robbery In Palermo Hollywood

[allcraz]

The portero did help me fix the black out blinds that week and saw what the renter had.

The porteros have such a bad rep. Not fair for the honest ones, which are surely the majority (just like the taxi drivers), but this fact is what would have caught my attention. I have said it at least once before, but IMO having a portero is a drawback, not an advantage.

 

[MikeB12]

My apartment was robbed here before; I had my passport and credit cards laying around and they didn't take them. So to me it isn't all that suspicious.

 

[Sleuth]

A cheap solution you can use right away?

To have five different sets of locks and you change the lock everytime you rent the place to a new person.

Not a bad idea actually. Just took off the lock in about 5 minutes. We'd have to coordinate with the cleaning people but that should not be too hard...

 

[nicoenarg]

Hmm, sorry to hear about the robbery but as others here have pointed out, it smells WAY fishy.

 

[pompeygazza]

It's quite possible that the renter didn't actually bolt the door when he left as he thought he did. I've forgotten to bolt mine once or twice and would swear up and down I had because it's such a habit.

It took me a long time to develop the habit, but now, whenever I go out, I concentrate on the action of locking the door. I don't allow myself to think about anything else, or daydream or anything. Then, when I'm 5 minutes down the street and thinking 'Did I lock that door?' I know I did.

 

[Sleuth]

if anything good came out of this we now found out that Mul-T-Lock has keys that cannot be copied. The downside - $1600 pesos each, but probably worth it.

 

[Greg2231]

if anything good came out of this we now found out that Mul-T-Lock has keys that cannot be copied. The downside - $1600 pesos each, but probably worth it.

Did you also try Panzer.ar the one I have, not sure if they will be cheaper as it was many years ago that I went with them.

 

[Conorworld]

Very weird. You could make up so many hypotheses about the whole thing. Maybe he met a lovely Argentine woman who he spurned who bided her time to rob him, take his clothes (and possibly burn in cackling away somewhere in the city) and leaving his documents as a sign to him to leave the country in case he bumps in to her again.

But deep down, the way crime is going in Argentina, nothing makes sense anymore

 

[toongeorges]

It took me a long time to develop the habit, but now, whenever I go out, I concentrate on the action of locking the door. I don't allow myself to think about anything else, or daydream or anything. Then, when I'm 5 minutes down the street and thinking 'Did I lock that door?' I know I did.

I know that feeling ;-)

 

[ASperansky]

sorry for lifting an old topic. My neighbour next door was recently robbed. He doesn't recall anything from the moment he drunk coffee in the cafe on the Libertador. Looks like something was put in the drink to make him disoriented and somebody escorted him home. He woke up next day and doesnt remember anything. Sounds pretty much like "devil's breath" which zombifies the person. I love eating out alone, but I think, I'll skip doing it in BA.