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> its useful because I don't have to change locks every time a get a new renter, I just change the codes (specially if I consider doing short term rentals/airbnb at some point/season) and I don't have to worry about any spare copies of the keys made by the renters.

Is that something that people generally worry about? I’m pretty sure none of the rentals I’ve lived in over the past decade had the locks changed between tenants.

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I live in a remarkably shitty, crime ridden city and having locks changed is a standard part of rental contracts. It’s so standard that every August, our local papers’ “student guides” suggest that new renters ask about having locks changed.

Knowing what I know now, I’d actually leave a city if I saw that term in a contract.

If it’s not, it should be, if nothing else then for the safety of your next tenant.

It (like everything else to do with renting) depends on the socioeconomic demographics of your renters.

> Is that something that people generally worry about? I’m pretty sure none of the rentals I’ve lived in over the past decade had the locks changed between tenants.

To immediately see why this is important, think what the answers would be when you tell your daughter or spouse that the locks weren't changed before you moved-in.

> Is that something that people generally worry about? I’m pretty sure none of the rentals I’ve lived in over the past decade had the locks changed between tenants.

That would be horrifying news to many women.

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