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The alarm contract and who may go inside
The alarm of the home is a contract with a company, not only a box on the wall. In the file you note the name of that company, the address the contract covers, and where the code is kept. The code itself does not go into a note that heirs can read. A sentence such as that the code lies with the executor in a closed folder is enough. A string of digits in the portal is not. This piece overlaps a key list, but it is about the alarm contract and about the letter to the company. Whoever has a house key can stand on that other list. Here stands who may operate the alarm, and what the company wants to hear about that.
Ask the alarm company whether the contract stands in the name of the deceased and whether it must be reported that that person has died. Ask who, according to their records, may be called and who may change the contract. Do not change that call list by putting a code in a group chat. The company says which route they use for a notification and for a change of name. Until that route exists, the contract keeps running if it was running. Cancelling because the house is empty for a while can switch the alarm off at a moment when an alarm is exactly what is needed. Note a cancellation only if the company confirms it and if it is clear who must still be able to get inside.
The letter names the death, the address, and the question of how the contract continues or is changed. It does not name the code. Nor does it name a password of an alarm app. Ervazo keeps the letter and the reply. It does not send them. In the file, put who may go inside while the home stands empty or is still occupied, with the source of that arrangement. A neighbour who did a favour stands here only if the alarm company or the executor has in fact named that person as a contact. Otherwise that neighbour belongs with the keys and the post, not with the alarm contract. Keep those lists apart so that a favour does not become an authority.
The alarm contract and the letter to the company belong in the file, with the place of the code and without the code itself. Who may go inside stands with it, and with a source. A key list is a different overview. This piece does not replace that list and does not empty it. A code in an open note you remove as soon as you see it, and you put only the place where it is kept back in. This is not legal advice. Whether the contract continues, and whom the company accepts as a contact, is confirmed by the alarm company. Whether the buildings or contents insurance sets a requirement for the alarm is confirmed by the insurer. The notary does not confirm the code and does not confirm the call list.