How to secure a rental door when I leave

[Anonymous]

Someone broke in, tried to connect to the Internet, and then left without stealing anything. I am finding it difficult to understand the motivation of this person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone broke in, tried to connect to the Internet, and then left without stealing anything. I am finding it difficult to understand the motivation of this person.

They went through our stuff but we had nothing of value other than the laptops. We had no jewelry, xboxes etc. All that was in the house was food and clothing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have no idea where to place this post.

My question is is there a tool or something that will allow me to stop people from entering a rented house? My family rented a beach house recently and upon returning home we notice someone accessed our laptops and other items and made changes.

Also another crappy thing I experienced was the last time I was selling a home. We bought a new house and put our house on the market a few weeks after we moved in to the new house. We lived less that a mile away and I checked on the house regularly. I saw people in my house who had visited the house previously and they had not used the automated system. The real estate agent representing the couple had made a copy of our the key in the lockbox and were going in regularly. When I told my agent, she said I shouldn't complain as they were the best offer we had on the house.

For rented property, it is not your property and you cannot lock others out. The owners have the right to enter as they wish.

For the selling the house part, that is the fault of your RE agent, allowing unfettered access to your house. it might be in the fine print of the agreement you signed. Always sell a house yourself or use a proxy that you trust, not a RE stranger. Saves you tens of thousands in fees also.

Owners have to give notice if they want to come in.

Depends on a few factors. Courtesy yes, but always....no.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, this was an individual renting a beach house in Cape May NJ. I am so angry we tolerated this. My spouse and I never got our laptops out and turned them on but we see someone attempted to map drives and connected to their wifi. It's so bad to realize after the fact. Anyone local who knew their garage code, could see the house was rented online. I'm so disgusted by this and the realization I shouldn't assume we are safe even if we are given a key.

Your laptops don’t have passwords??

They do and they did at the time but they clearly got in to mine. Connected to the house internet and made some weird changes trying to connect to two other laptops in the house. All have passwords.

Sounds like either feds/spooks/PI's, or someone you know.

[Anonymous]

We rent our Condo in Rehoboth. We have a keypad entry and change it after every renter. You should have asked the owner to change the code.
Having said that, if they’re not local the neighbor may have their own code they use. Owner should have told you neighbor might be going in garage for something though.