My parents have bought a flat near us. But for one reason and another for the next year or so they are still going to be living mostly in their current house 80 miles away before they can make a permanent move.
This morning I knocked on the neighbours doors, there are only 4 in the block. Got the woman downstairs first. I explained who I was, why the flat would be empty much of the time for now, and offered her my number in case she ever needed to contact us if there was a problem.
She said "what sort of problem?" I said I was thinking along the lines of a water leak or a gas leak and they needed urgent access to the flat upstairs, I'm local, I can come round.
She said she was not taking any responsibility for anything in our flat, she is not bloody neighbourhood watch and she would not be needing our number thank you very much and shut the door.
Was I U to offer her my number? If you lived downstairs from a flat that is often empty would you not want to be able to contact the owners if water started dripping through your ceiling?
Sometimes people are weird. Or else I'm weird. I'm not knocking on anyone else's door till I get an idea of who is the weird one.