Instructions

Madhuri Apte, a busy professional, rents out her studio apartment located in South Mumbai. Since she stays three hours away from the studio apartment, she uses a networked digital lock to monitor the property remotely. Each customer gets a temporary and unique access code for the digital lock that enables them to enter the studio apartment for the duration of stay. The apartment’s entrance door can also be opened with physical keys and Madhuri Apte has two such keys in her possession.

Madhuri Apte has employed a cleaner who has a permanent access code to enter the apartment for cleaning every day. She is available only between 15:00 hrs and 17:00 hrs.

Madhuri Apte’s apartment caters largely to international customers. A customer typically stays for 3 days, paying an average rent of $125 per day.

Question 47

Madhuri's apartment received good feedback from the guests, except with respect to the operation of the digital lock. She decided to leave a spare physical key in the house for her guests. Recently some of the guests had forgotten to leave the key behind during checkout. Making a spare key will cost $500 and will take about 10 days to arrive. She was confused if she should continue leaving the spare key and was looking for a way out.

Which of the following would be the best way out for her?

Solution

Option A is limiting the choices, not the best solution in this case.

Option B is incorrect as it increases operational effort for Madhuri.

Option C is ruled out as cleaner cannot stay whenever guests leave the apartment.

Option D is not an effective solution as customers may still not leave their keys behind despite the polite reminders given to the customers.

Option E addresses the concerns that customers don't leave the keys behind, as well gave an option to recover a portion of the cost, if such incidents still occur.

Option E is correct.

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