Exterior door lock

What do you have now? Get something that looks the same and you'd be good. If what you have is good you can get a new cylinder from a locksmith.

This will help when you are home but won't add any protection if not there.

Consumer Reports has their ratings split into types. High Security Door Lock Medeco Maxum 11*603 1. is about $150. Bowley Grade 2 Lock is also about $150

Standard Door Lock Yale Premier Single Cylinder YH82 1 is about $100 Kwikset 980 is about $60 Baldwin Prestige 380 is about $40

They have some of the electronic ones rated. Those have keypads, of course.

If you're living in a rental pro;erty, you're probably not allowed to change the lock.

And walmart wouldn't be my first, second or third choice for an exterior lock.

I would take the problem to apartment management.

Many years ago, my brother lived in a rented townhouse and misplaced his keys - my key ring had 3 house/apartment door keys on it - 2 of them would open his door with a little jiggling. Those cheapo push-button-in-knob door locks are terrible. Steel door in steel frame with a decent dead-bolt is pretty good. Most wood-door-in-wood-frame can be pried open with a honkin' big screwdriver in a few seconds. John T.

Not necessarily, the most secure have nothing physically accessible at all and commonicate with an RFID or phone.

I doubt you need a really fancy lock but I have heard about the ones that can be opened just by hitting the key. I forget what it's called. If I knew the word we could find all sorts of information about it, mabye including vulnerable brands. I presume it is mostly off-brands we've never heard of, not shlage, kwikset, yale. Like Ed says, I'd get one just like the bad one you have but a better brand. The mounting holes will probably be the same, but if not you can check another brand. Not everything Walmart sells is el cheapo, but I think something must be. Get a name brand. If you see a brand and not sure if it's a famous name, ask here.

I woudn't worry much about that.

He's supposed to warn you when he wants to come in anyhow, unless tthere is an emergency and there never was, in the 10 years I lived there.

I got the keys from the super iirc, and then the super changed and I assumed then new one had my keys. then the new one was gone soon after. # supers is too many, and after that I never gave copies of my keys to the super. When I changed apartments in the same building, I added another lock with a round key on the inside and out, so that if someone came in through the fireescape, they couldn't unlokc the apartment door.

We didn't lock the double-sided lock when someone was home but the last person to leave did lock it.

Never gave the keys to the super, until I moved out.