Securing your home is a vitally important to any homeowner, and key organizers can be a the most important thing you do this year to make your home safer.  This isn’t about expensive equipment or trying to sell anyone anything, this about your family’s safety and doing what’s best for you and the people you care about most.

Every home in America is secured with lock and keys.  If you’ve taken those steps to make sure your home is protected, why aren’t you protecting your keys as well?  A key organizer is the way to secure your keys.

Key organizers keep your keys — it can be your spare keys or your active ones — protected from loss or theft.  I know so many people who, if anyone asked, wouldn’t know where to find their spare keys.  And even if they did, they’d have to dig through a pile of them and guess which key went with which lock.

This is not good home security.

Key organizers come in many varieties.  You can get a simple, mechanical one that simply holds your spare keys in a hard, protected shell.  It keeps your keys from being stolen, as this device is locked.

Anyone who has ever had their home broken into can tell you how devastating the experience is.  It affects your family both financially and emotionally — the latter perhaps the most intensely.  You have to protect what is important to you, and unless you are protecting your keys you are leaving an opening.

If you’d like to get ultimate protection, you can buy an electronic key organizer.  These devices can be programmed remotely.  You can release keys remotely, over the web.  You can program access to them through PIN entry.  You can track who accessed them.  They are essentially an electronic safe, but they have the added feature of only allowing certain users to access certain sets of keys.

Do you have particular assets that only you would like access to?  Then an electronic key organizer is what you need.

The remote release feature of a key organizer can be especially important.  Everyone occasionally has strangers who need legitimate access to areas of your property.  With a remote release feature, you can have them (contractor, relative, neighbor) contact you when they arrive, and you can give them access from work, vacation, or wherever you may be.  This is an invaluable security resource.

Have you ever worked or run a business when a key is lost?  It’s an incredibly stressful and usually costly time.  When a key to your home or business can not be found, it’s time to replace the locks.  Both for the safety of you, your employees, and your family — but to keep safe everything in your home and office.

You can eliminate that risk and that spending with a key organizer.  I’ve been a part of loss prevention teams for major retailers — who at times have been forced to spend over $15,000 for a single lost master key.  This sometimes happened multiple times in a single year!

Don’t let this happen to you and your family.  Invest in a key organizer.

As we’ve discussed here many times, you can find key organizers in many shapes and sizes — they can really fit any budget.  And the long-term savings, not to mention the peace of mind, is well worth the up-front investment.

Losing your keys can be costly.  If you’re a homeowner it’s always a good idea to change your locks when one of your keys goes missing.  If you’re a small business owner and you lose a key, it’s even more expensive — and you’ve got the additional problem of worrying about employee theft.

That’s why key organizers are so important.  Keys are kept in a safe location and stored in an orderly fashion.  The days of trying to stuff everything into a drawer or haphazardly around the house and office will be behind you.

There are several different types of key organizers — what you choose will depend upon your needs.  A business may need something as fancy as an electronic key cabinet which locks individual keys and requires electronic authorization.  A home may only need something as simple as a wall-mounted key rack.  We’ll cover many of these items here with our goal being helping you decide which type of organizer is right for you.

Simple and Inexpensive Organizers
Sometimes the best solutions are the simplest.  This can certainly be the case for a homeowner who is just wants to keep their spare keys secure, or to hide a spare in a safe location.

For the latter, have a look at magnetic key cases.  These inexpensive little items can usually store one or two keys and you can hide them out of plain sight.  It is always a good idea to be creative with a hiding spot, though.

For in-home key organizers, start with a simple key rack for all your key chains.  Mount it to the wall and hang your key chains so you always know where you’ve set them.

Next, have a look at a locking key cabinet.  This simple storage box fastens to the wall.  It has an external lock, and swings open.  Inside, you’ll find lines of hooks to hang your keys on.  You can find these units in many sizes, depending on your needs.  Generally these includes labeling mechanisms.

Mid-Range Options
Wall mounted mechanical solutions for small businesses can store dozens to hundreds of keys.  Many come with simple key rings as well.

If you’re a small business or a homeowner looking for a bit more secure solution, you can get a key organizer steel cabinet.  The steel makes the cabinet much more difficult to break into, and when combined with a good external lock your keys will be quite safe.

High-Security Key Organizers
Many businesses, and even some homes, require top of the line security in their key organizer.  This can include electronic authorization for access to the keys, and even biometrics.  These key control cabinets can include software to administer them and electronic reports of all access to the keys.

High-end security key organizers can cost thousands of dollars and can secure hundreds and even thousands of keys.

1)  Stop replacing your locks. 
Whether you’re a home or business owner, losing keys often means changing your locks.  For a homeowner trying to raise a family, the costs of replacing your locks can really be a pain — and if you aren’t properly organizing your keys it can happen again and again.  The sooner you buy a key organizer, the more money you’ll be saving in the long run.

For a business owner, replacing the locks on your building can mean thousands of dollars down the drain.  An electronic key organizer is a one-time purchase that can literally save you thousands of dollars in recurring costs.

2)  Key Organizers Save You Time
Stop wasting your precious time searching for your keys.  In the modern world we are all constantly on the go and no one has time to wasting rummaging around for lost keys.  Key organizers can be purchased for as little as twenty dollars — isn’t that worth all the money you’ll save on Advil?

3)  Stop Having to Monitor and Worry About Your Employees
One of the biggest problems small businesses have is finding good help.  Often it is extremely difficult to find good people you can trust.  With a key organizer, you can make your employees accountable for the keys they take and the property those keys and locks protect.  It’s valuable piece of mind.

4) Make Your Schedule More Efficient
How many times do you have you ever had to leave work to let a relative, contractor, or neighbor have access to something in your home?  How much time could you be saving if you could still control access to your home, at times of your choosing, but not have to make that trip from work to home?  With certain types of key organizers, you can have the ability to remotely unlock that device to allow access to your keys.  This will save you time — and as we all know — time is money.

Are you a home owner looking to find a way to securely store and organize your keys without spending a fortune?  You tired of keeping your spare keys in a drawer?  Or worse, you’re not even sure where they are?

It’s time to fix the situation, and you can do it without spending a lot of money.  There are several inexpensive key organizer options that can help you secure your family and your valuables.

The Locked Key Cabinet
These sturdy and secure cabinets come in many different shapes, for as little as $30.  They are popular for landlords and small businesses as well as for homeowners.  These units are secured via an external lock.  They swing open and inside your keys are stored and organized on key rings that hang on numbered and labeled hooks.

These cabinets come with mounting hardware to fasten to a wall.  They are perfect for a basement, garage, or office.  Key organizers for the home start here.

Entryway Key Organizer
Every home needs to have a mounted key organizer where your family can hang their personal keys.  I think we all can relate to the frustration of losing your car keys, and for $10 and some good habit forming you’ll never lose them again.  They come in all shapes and sizes and you surely can find one that looks great with the rest of your home decor.

Keeping your home organized is the first step to good home security.

Magnetic Key Hider
Are you someone who hides a key under the doormat?  It’s time for that to end.  Buy one of these simple little gizmos and stash your spare key someplace a thief won’t find it.

Many of the people I talk to don’t even consider their keys when considering home security. It’s a common mistake. Everyone seems to focus on the intruder that will “break in” through your doors or windows. So they buy the expensive alarm systems — the motion detectors, the window and door sensors, etc. And that is great, don’t get me wrong.

But what good is the fancy electronic equipment, auto-dialing controller, and the $50 a month payment if you don’t even secure the keys to your doors?

You need to take care of the small stuff to make the big stuff worth the expense. Inexpensive key organizers can be purchased for as little as ten dollars. For that price, how can you not secure your keys and your home?

If you don’t have a plan to secure and organize the keys to your home or business, the time to make one is now. You wouldn’t be here if the safety of your family or the security of your business wasn’t of the upmost importance to you.

And for both homeowners and business owners, having no accountability for your keys can be a nightmare. I’ve known a family who had a set of keys fall into the wrong hands (one of their teens let a “friend” use them). By the time the parents knew any better, the house had been used for a massive party while they were on vacation, and damages were over a thousand dollars. Don’t let this happen to you.

On the business side, while it’s not fun to think about, it’s vitally important that your employees have accountability for the key sets they use. Many business owners know all too well that employee theft is one of the biggest concerns in loss prevention.

For a business, the costs of not securing and organizing your keys can be high. There is nothing worse than the feeling of having your hard-earned money (whether this is cash or not) taken by someone whom you had trusted.

Key organizers can be the solution to these problems. For a homeowner, securely storing your spare keys in a locked key cabinet can prevent them being given away without you knowing. It’s vitally important to include your family in your security plans as well.

For a business owner, an electronic key safe will individually identify your employees and track every time they remove and return a key from the key safe. These devices do cost a little more up front, but the long-term savings will make it all worth it.

For many businesses, loss prevention is a major issue.  Tracking keys is an absolutely vital part of this.  If you aren’t tracking who is using your keys and when they are using them, then you don’t have the accountability required to execute any loss prevention plan.

That’s why your business might need an electronic key organizer.  These devices can uniquely identify everyone involved in your business and track what keys they use.  You can limit what keys are available to certain users.  You can run reports on when keys are being used and by whom.

In short, you’ll have accountability.  And that’s imperative.

The key organizers can be paired with an employee card reader or even biometrics if that is what you require.  The sky is really the limit.  You’re business will have 21st century key security.

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