Buffalo Home Safety | Changing Your Locks
By Colleen Kulikowski • Category: Featured Articles, Home Improvement
In all the excitement of searching for a home, getting the sale approved, your home inspected, and all the associated excitement of getting ready to move into your new Buffalo area home. The first thing after you leave the closing you need to change the locks. The house you now call home was for sale, that means that the keys to that home were in many hands. Just think of all the potential people that have had access to the home from the previous owners:
- The helpful neighbor
- Inspectors
- Cleaning people
- Repairmen
- Friends and family of the previous owners
- The Listing Realtor
Since you don't know who might have keys we strongly encourage you to change the locks immediately! It just makes good sense to change the locks. But many times, in all excitement, it gets put off or worse never happens. So you see, after you get the keys to your Buffalo home, the first first thing you must do before you move in - Change those locks!
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- Changing Your Locks
- Why Change Your Locks When You Move In?
- What is Lock Bumping
Oh so true. Sometimes we forget how many people actually had access to listed properties.
Larry -- And it is such a simple thing to prevent!
Colleen~
Good idea...and one I hadn't considered for awhile! I'm adding this (it is bookmarked) to my collection of your other (literally hundreds) of good ideas to share with the Brokers at our Firm...and our clients. THX!
Colleen, this may seem like a no brainer, but it is amazing how many Closings that I have been to that the Buyers had not thought about this.
janeAnne -- Wow! Thanks!
George -- it is the simple things that so many miss!
Great reminder here. I know a lot of my clients never do change them. I know it does cost a little money to get them all changed but a contractor's package of door locks is the best deal.
I really had not thought about suggesting this to clients. It might be my new gift to the customer, have the locks changed for them, what do you think?
Have A Great Day
Lizette-- scary thought isn't?
Doris -- That might be a great closing gift...