How soon did you change locks on your new house?

[Anonymous]

Is everyone really doing this on day 1?

[Anonymous]

within the week. not on first day.

[Anonymous]

Never did it. We've been here five years. Maybe if I thought the previous owners were sketchy I'd have done something like that, but they were boring middle-aged parents like ourselves and it just wasn't something we gave a thought to.

[Anonymous]

Didn’t do it either. Been here 25 years.

[Anonymous]

Another never did it. Actually I think the back door lock needed to be replaced at some point if that counts?

[Anonymous]

The first week.

[Anonymous]

Day 1. Literally as soon as we got the keys at closing, we went straight to Home Depot for new locks.

But we bought from a psychopath, whose equally unstable adult child was extremely upset at us for buying the house (long story). A more normal transaction, probably would have done it within a week or two.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t do it either. Been here 25 years.

+1

[Anonymous]

When my neighbors told me they had the key.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never did it. We've been here five years. Maybe if I thought the previous owners were sketchy I'd have done something like that, but they were boring middle-aged parents like ourselves and it just wasn't something we gave a thought to.

It's not just the previous owners you need to worry about, it's every random person they may have given a key to over the years: neighbors, family, cleaners, the dog walker, babysitter, .......

[Anonymous]

We've owned three houses. Never done it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never did it. We've been here five years. Maybe if I thought the previous owners were sketchy I'd have done something like that, but they were boring middle-aged parents like ourselves and it just wasn't something we gave a thought to.

We did it because the sellers handed us a gallon sized ziplock bag of keys. Each door had two different keys, plus the shed, random doors, duplicate sets. I prefer to have every lock keyed the same. And we wanted keypad on a door so we don’t have to carry keys if we go out for a short walk.

[Anonymous]

Befor we moved in. New construction. Who knows how many people had access.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We've owned three houses. Never done it.

+1 Never even occurred to me, all the previous owners seemed nice! Although if I got sketchy/psycho vibes from the previous owner I might have.

[Anonymous]

Day one. I bought as a single woman and didn't want to chance some stranger walking in on me.