Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian View Post
I frowned at these two aspects when I first came here:

1) doors were lockable by pressing a button on the inside doorknob
2) doors were only lockable in the above manner, you can not lock the doors outside by turning the key.

That means the only way to lock them is to pray (or check) that you have your keys on you before locking your door.

Requiring that you must have the key to both lock and unlock the doors would make it foolproof.
Your description sounds like you can't lock the door when you leave your apartment. After all, you can't access the inside doorknob's button when you are standing on the outside side of the door! Well, I must be misunderstanding something because that would be too funny. I have my own door's lock set so that I can't even close, let alone lock, the thing without a key from the outside. So, there's absolutely no risk of forgetting the key when leaving. I also have a second, high security lock that only obeys a big, sturdy key from both sides, to keep thieves away from my precious electronics.