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

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.

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

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.

We've owned three houses. Never done it.

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, .......

When my neighbors told me they had the key.

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

+1

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.

The first week.

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

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

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.

within the week. not on first day.

Is everyone really doing this on day 1?