Changing all the locks in new house?
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Anonymous
| We did. I don't recall how much it cost, but the sellers were displeased to sell to us, so changing the locks was one of the first things we did. |
Anonymous
| We never did. |
Anonymous
| Why? |
Anonymous
| No. You keep the locks but you have a locksmith rekey each lock to fit a new key. |
Anonymous
| We never bothered |
Anonymous
| We swapped out all the locks with kwikset and and that let us rekey them all the same easily. |
Anonymous
| We did. It was about $1,000, but we bought Medeco locks. |
Anonymous
Most people just get them rekeyed, rather than physically replacing the locksets. It's been 8 years, but rekeying three doors was less than $150. |
Anonymous
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We did in our first house. It was a rental and the tenants were sketchy.
We didn't in our second house. We knew the previous owners and trusted them. |
Anonymous
| We never have. I know it’s recommended but we just never bothered to. We bought 4 houses (3 new construction). |
Anonymous
| We replaced one lock and rekeyed the rest. |
Anonymous
Did you rekey the locks or did you replace them? |
Anonymous
| We never have. We don't have anything worth stealing... |
Anonymous
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How many doors do you guys have?
We have a front door and a back door, and then just re-coded the garage door. And DH did it himself, so it was only the cost of the locks. |
Anonymous
| We did not because we did FSBO and we’re already friendly with the neighbors and former owners. I knew they wouldn’t come after our stuff. They said they collected key from their cleaners and I believe them. It was helpful to know neighbors already had key if needed. We had no issue but did redo the locks when one broke many many years later. |