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Then you just don't understand the viewpoint of a landlord. If I have to coordinate service to fix the waterheater or something but I live 3 towns over, it's a lot easier to give a technician a temporary password to the property in a set time window.

/To do this requires a good relationship with your tenants and technicians

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You can also give the technician the property's renter's phone number and let themselves coordinate.

You are greatly overestimating the amount of energy and time the average tenant will put into fixing anything in the property. I wish I could count on them to help in coordinating.

Well, anecdote, but in most cases I know (South Europe) it's the tenants chasing behind the landlord to fix issues in their homes, and not vice versa :P Why wouldn't one want stuff on the property he's renting (and paying dearly for it) fixed?

You would think a tenant would be eager to get something fixed. I had a tenant with a broken water heater who waited 3 weeks to tell me. In the winter! /shrug I try not to judge

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