How soon did you change locks on your new house?

[Anonymous]

Huh. Never even thought about it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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, .......

Well if they haven't popped in over the last five years, I doubt they'll start now!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When my neighbors told me they had the key.

x10000000

[Anonymous]

Day 1

[Anonymous]

We had the locks rekeyed before we moved in. I can't remember, but it was like $150, and we have two little kids.

[Anonymous]

Day 1. Locksmith took care of that while I was at Home Depot buying the appliances that were supposed to convey but the sellers took.

[Anonymous]

Within the first month, and the Keypad at the front door within a day

[Anonymous]

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

+1 But way more houses. The only time these were changed was when we actually replaced the front door.

[Anonymous]

I never did but I would lie if you asked me.

[Anonymous]

Never. Never even thought about it.

If the house had been a rental or a flip, I probably would change the locks.

[Anonymous]

We hired a locksmith to change the locks ASAP. I wanted high security locks and you can't buy or install those yourself.

[Anonymous]

I scheduled the locksmith for change the locks day after closing, not primarily for security but that all doors were keyed alike.

[Anonymous]

I changed the locks day 1. The realtor selling the house who was a family friend of the sellers told us to specifically. She said that there were probably a lot of keys out there to those locks. We always changes locks Day 1 on future houses.

[Anonymous]

Day 1.

Our neighbor did not do so and came home one day to find a party in his basement - teenage friends of the former owners kid had a key and let themselves in. Neighbor changed the locks right away after that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had the locks rekeyed before we moved in. I can't remember, but it was like $150, and we have two little kids.

Yes you don't have to replace the locks, you can have them re-keyed for pretty cheap.

We talked about this a lot the first year we lived here and then never did it. The sellers lived in CA and we love our neighbors and have already given them a key, so that wasn't an issue.