Long background story so please bare with me. Im 24 years old and I started living alone 6 months ago. I got a security system, it’s a motion sensor in the living room, & an alarm on my door. Both are turned “on” when I leave the condo.
I only turn off the motion when I’m actually inside hence only leaving the door alarm on (relevant later).
Last week, about 6am, I woke up to this blaring sound I could only compare to police sirens/ambulance. I was half asleep thinking “wow they are literally right outside my window, they’re so loud”. But it wasn’t, I gathered myself realizing it was my dang security alarm. I got up & panicked. All I could think of was shutting it off because it was TOO loud & my neighbours are probably annoyed. It was stupid for me not even thinking about the obvious that something tripped my alarm.
Prior to this, I have never heard it go off as when the company offered to test it, I didn’t bother.
The hub was in the living room so I put my password in to stop it. I stood there & realized that the only thing that could’ve tripped it off was the door opening cause the motion sensor isn’t on when I’m inside. But the front door was locked & I panicked thinking “DID SOMEONE LOCK IT FROM THE INSIDE”. I was frozen in fear, barely woke up & checked the whole place. The security company called me as my alarm is linked to them + police.
They asked if I was ok since it indicated my front door was opened this morning. I did another check inside, still couldn’t explain what happened & thought maybe the alarm tripped on accident. I went outside & a neighbour approached me to ask about the sound this morning coming from my place. She said it woke her up so she peeked outside to check. She mentioned she saw our maintenance guy speed walking away from my apt this morning. She had a ring camera, even showed me the video of him going towards my entrance and couple of seconds later, alarms blaring, speeding away from my apt.
This just gave me chills. I only met the guy once, a middle-aged guy & we had only exchanged a convo when he fixed my toilet 3 wks ago. I called my landlord right away to explain what happened so she called the guy. My landlord calls me back & told me the maintenance guy was gonna fix something at a diff apartment that day & he got the apartment wrong so he accidentally entered the mine, tripped my alarm so he locked my door again and left.
Like wtf? He didn’t even bother to let anybody know? What if I didn’t have an alarm system & he proceeded to go inside the apt while I’m sleeping? And at 6am at that? LL said she was sorry. I have some repairs lined up next week & I told her, I’m not comfortable having that maintenance guy around my place. She’s telling me he’s the main guy in our apts & it would be hard for her to contact somebody else but I insisted there’s no repairs happening unless it’s someone else.
Maybe I’m too paranoid or just not used to living in a condo but this whole thing was scary for me, especially watching the video of him speeding away that morning and not telling a soul about it until I inquired.